obituary
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Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57
Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday after a massive cardiac arrest. He was 57 years old. Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘. Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they…
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Jean Alexander : the legendary ‘Hilda Ogden’ dies
The whole of the U.K. is in deep mourning today, and anybody in then rest of the civilized world that was deprived from watching Coronation Street the world’s longest running TV soap opera will not understand why. The actress Jean Alexander who played the quintessential British working class legendary heroine Hilda Ogden for 23 years until…
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Applause For The Waco Kid
With genius comic actors sometimes pictures are so much better than words, so to mark the death of the gloriously funny Gene Wilder here are clips of two of queerguru’s favorite performances of the great man who gave us such joy. Naturally both are from Mel Brooks movies. Thank you so much
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Marni Nixon the ‘unknown’ singing star of Hollywood Musicals has Died.
Marni Nixon an accomplished concert singer whose claim to fame was that she was the ‘voice’ who performed for major Hollywood movie stars who appeared in musicals even though they couldn’t sing a note, died on Sunday in NY aged 86 years old. One of Marni’s most famous roles was dubbing for Deborah Kerr in…
