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Goodbye Jerry : the legendary Broadway composer of Hello Dolly & La Cage Aux Folles has died.
Six time Tony Award winner songwriter-composer JERRY HERMAN died here in Miami Beach yesterday aged 88 years old. This legendary Broadway figure who created such camp hot musicals such as Hello Dolly, Mame and the first ever ‘gay’ musical La Cage Aux Folles (the latter he wrote with Harvey Fierstein) In his long career Herman…
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Terry De Havilland: the colorful cobbler of London’s Swinging Sixties, dies aged 81
Terry De Havilland born in London’s East End just before WW2 broke out, became the capital’s (and then the world’s) most colourful cobbler with his stunning ‘look at me’ shoes in the 1960s’ . His outrageous platform shoes. away ahead of its time ,attracted an enormous band of followers from celebrities like Marianne Faithfull, Led…
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‘Privates on Parade’ creator Peter Nichols dies aged 92
Peter Nichols the distinguished British playwright,screenwriter, director and journalist has just died at the age of 92. He penned award winning plays such as A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967), The National Health ( 1969), Forget-Me-Not-Lane ( 1971), Passion Play ( 1981, ) and Poppy ( 1982). He wrote Hearts and…
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Gillian Freeman author of the groundbreaking queer book/film The Leather Boys has died aged 89
Gillian Freeman, the British author who in 1961 wrote the groundbreaking novel The Leather Boys has died aged 89.. The controversial novel which she published under the pseudonym Eliot George, was the a story of a gay relationship between two young working-class men, later turned into a film for which she wrote the screenplay, this…
