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Del Filardi : My Heron Song
On Friday after I finished interviewing 20-something-year-old filmmaker Alden Peters on his film Coming Out for a feature we will broadcast on PTV on National Coming Out Day, I jumped on my bike to center of P Town for my next interviewee who couldn’t have been more different. 87 year old local artist/sculptor Del Filardi latest,…
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I’m A Porn Star : Gay4Pay
Don’t expect to discover anything startling new or even shocking in any way from filmmaker Charlie David’s gentle probe (!) into why so many of the performers in the world of gay pornography self identify as ‘straight”. As the acceptability of the sexuality spectrum continues to evolve in a very positive way, it does at…
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Fanny Cradock : How we Brits Used To Cook
In the 1950’s and right up to the mid 1970’s there was only one cookery queen who ruled Britain’s TV programs : Fanny Cradock. She pre-dated all the celebrity chefs, even Julia Child, and was quintessentially English right down to her snobby accent and the dreadful fussy dresses that she wore to cook. For the…
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Happy 70th Birthday Freddie Mercury
I’m playing my role in history Looking to find my goal Taking in all this misery But giving it all my soul …… so sang the late great Freddie Mercury in ‘Made in Heaven’. Two days shy of what would have been his 70th birthday, here’s a look at the many faces of Freddie who…
