![]() We must acknowledge the wrongs, learn from them, and look for ways of healing.” - Anthony Albanese on Australia Day. “Until a nation acknowledges the full truth of its history, it will be burdened by its unspoken weight. “Today I’m just absolutely thrilled to be an Australian, as all Australians are.” Scott Morrison on Australia Day. “50 years is a long time, but it’ll be going on in the future because of these young people here today.” - Torres Strait Islander man Danny Blanket, delighted to see the number of young people who turned up to march through the streets of Canberra on Australia Day as part of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy’s 50th anniversary. ![]() So we’ll come out in a car, and then we’ll roll out, and when it gets to the kissing part in Paradise, everything will go black, and they’ll play the video.” - Karla de Vito, Meat Loaf’s famous counterpart in Paradise By the Dashboard Light recounting how, despite ill-health, Mr Loaf, 73, was still keen on performing, and called her with this idea a month before he died. ![]() “He said, ’I really don’t like the way I’m walking, anyway. Beyond that, she has been pretty happy with him. He’s fading faster than Sarah Palin did - and she was second place on a losing presidential ticket.” - Anne Coulter, famous American right-winger, in a column last week entitled, “ The Message in the polls – Trump’s done.” It follows previous remarks about Trump being “ a shallow, lazy ignoramus”, “a complete moron”, “ a blithering idiot” and “ a lout”. Do you have any idea what they would fetch if they were in good condition?” “Ooh,” says host Fiona Bruce, “this is a very rare set produced by the celebrated Johns Brothers taxidermists who operated in London at the turn of the 19th century. I’m hoping you had an off-screen affair with Meat Loaf, to match your on-screen one?īarry Blither from down Manchester way takes two stuffed dogs up to the Antiques Roadshow, which on this day has the BBC recording in the park next to Kensington Palace. Everybody shoved him, but you very nearly loved him. He had the voice of an angel with the power of a jet taking off.įitz: So tell me this. When he opened his mouth and began singing Hot Patootie, our hair stood on end, we were blown across the room and pinned to the wall. Pat Quinn, who was playing Magenta, and I had never heard of Meat Loaf, when into the rehearsal room sauntered a confident, baby-faced Texan chubster. 20th Century Fox insisted the roles of Brad and Janet be played by Americans, so Jim cast Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon. Furter but Jim insisted Tim Curry play the role as well as having the rest of us from the original production in the film. Casting the film, Mick Jagger and David Bowie both wanted to play Dr Frank N. NC: Meatloaf had played Eddie and Dr Scott in the LA theatre production. ![]() “He had the voice of an angel with the power of a jet taking off.” Credit: Andy Kropa, AP He would drink endless cups of tea and if I ever saw him tuck into a sticky bun I’d warn him “Darling, one more bun, and you’re gonna burst out of those trousers.” His trousers were always so tight, you could see exactly what he was packing. I would advise sagely, “Freddie, best to keep your day job.” I sold vintage frocks at Kensington antique market across the hall from an amusing young man, Freddie Mercury, who would bang on about his band called Queen. The following year – 1972 – I moved with little sister Cressida and my parents to London where dad was sent by Frank Packer for six months. After high school, I went to drama school for a year at what is now Marian Street Theatre in Killara. His journalist’s wage mostly went toward educating myself and three siblings, and we were encouraged to follow whichever path interested us. My heavenly mother, Ruth, was a born Bohemian, my divine father Ross the most charming man imaginable. NC: Wait, wait, wait! We had the brilliant, liberal, headmistress Betty Archdale and my parents were not conservative.
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