Turn Back Time
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Dusty Springfield : You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
The sublime Dusty Springfield was so much more than the flamboyant figure she cut with her peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and her signature heavy eye make-up. At her peak in the 1960’s she was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100…
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Turn Back TIme : the late great Charles Nelson Reilly celebrating his Broadway career
The day after the 2019 Tony Award Nominations are announced and we are celebrating all the LGBT nominees, we look back at one of the great queer Broadway legends who picked up his Tony Award in 1962 for his performance in the original production of How To Succeed in Business. The late CHARLES NELSON REILLY…
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Kitty Always Tells It As It Is
To most Americans (and other non Brits) 89 year old Dame Patricia Routledge is best known as the social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (that’s pronounced Bouquet) in the long running hit TV sit.com Keeping Up Appearances. There is of course a lot more to this the veteran classically trained actress than that. She was a…
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Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who…
