Turn Back Time : we revisit Barbara Cook as a Kennedy Awards Honoree in 2011

  The Tony Award winning actress and singer BARBARA COOK arrived on Broadway in the 1950’s and never  disappeared from the limelight until her death in 2017 at the age of 89.. She was in the very first production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, created the role created the award winning role of Marian the Librarian … Continue reading

Turn Back Time : when TV interviewing was a real art

  You really have to search hard for “Face to Face” interviews on the University of YouTube as they were originally broadcast in the UK between 1959 and 1961, but if you are prepared to delve the rewards are enormous. A search will uncover interviews with some of the major world figures of the last … Continue reading

Turning Back Time with ‘Amy’ & ‘Britney

  queerguru is turning back time today to 2007 when one of the greatest female comic duos ever gave one of their merciless hilarious parodies of Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse. Whilst most of the world knows Jennifer Saunders as the creator and star of Absolutely Fabulous, and Dawn French as The Vicar of Dibley, … Continue reading

Turning straight for America at Christmas

  There’s nothing as queer as folk , especially when they run TV Channels.  The movie TOO COOL FOR CHRISTMAS was made in 2004 for Canadian TV and was the story of two gay dads and their family.  That evidently was considered far too advance for us in the US, so they filmed another version … Continue reading

TURNING THE SCREW : a look back at composer Benjamin Britten’s fascination with young boys

      The English composer and conductor Benjamin Britten was one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century British classical music, known for works such as the War Requiem and the opera Peter Grimes. In 1937, Britten met the tenor Peter Pears through a mutual friend, and in 1939, the relationship turned romantic.   From then on Britten wrote … Continue reading

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