Leigh ... Elizabeth is in South Australia. It was created in the mid 1950s and UK migrants were the primary "settlers". Jimmy Barnes and his half-brother John "Swannee" Swan grew up here, as did Graham Goble and Beeb Birtles from the Little River Band and Alan Tarney of the Tarney-Spencer Band.
The only reason I know this is b/c it's etched in my brain due to a radio show I did way back in 1980. It was part of the "rock n roll highschool" hour on the
original
Triple M (now known as 3D Radio). Most of the students who got a turn on the show, just played any old music but since we were from Elizabeth High School, we decided to do a show around artists who came from Elizabeth.
BTW ... Michael "Tunny" Tunn -- formerly of Triple J and ABC TV -- got his start doing the Rock N Roll High School show. By the time he was on it, they'd stopped using different schools each week and just had the same students come in every week.
Okay, Jars, you win on the obsessiveness. Though the phone number thing is SCARY. But I'm still not giving him up.
I forgot Liam Neeson.
So did I! (Flog me, too!)
Micheal Palin
Oh, yes. Also, if I may be permitted to include non-living Brits, Graham Chapman.
I hope they repeat Gormenghast soon. Cos, y'know - hot.
Yeah. And had Spike Milligan in. (Okay! So I have a thing for
dead
funny guys! With blue eyes! It's the blue eyes, I tell you.)
I have to admit that because I knew the books, I was more than a little disturbed by how attractive I found Steerpike. Rhys-Meyers did a wonderful job, but-- disturbing, kinda.
thinks
That's praise. Disturbing is how Gormenghast *should* be.
As long as we're not time-restricted and Deb's claiming prime Richard Burton, I'd like to lay claim to Richard Harris and Robert Shaw. And Julian Sand.
Wouldn't you like have closed a pub 30 years ago with Burton, Harris and O'Toole?
Wouldn't you like have closed a pub 30 years ago with Burton, Harris and O'Toole?
Hell no. I'd have got naked.
And sold tickets.
Wouldn't you like have closed a pub 30 years ago with Burton, Harris and O'Toole?
I probably wouldn't have come close to keeping up with them, but this does sound like fun.
Oh, the wild-eyed Irish and Welsh songs, the jokes. Finney, anyone?
Deb, you mentioned Courtenay. Did you ever see The Dresser? That film just--oof. Sucker-punched me.
Omigod, Finney, Tom Jones-era (slaver drool whimper).
I loved The Dresser. And speaking of Courtenay, must also mention Laurence Harvey, to die for, and gone too soon. Anyone else have a deep-seated passion for A Dandy in Aspic?
I've been told that the orginal cocaine based coke had such a mild dose of cocaine that you actually get a better buzz off the caffeine in modern coke.
Ah, and according to snopes, I've been told correctly
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Laurence Harvey, to die for,
Oooh! Tamiko! Harvey and France Nuyen. It's been yonks since I saw it, so it's probably hideously un-PC now, but I cried buckets years ago when I was young and tenderhearted.
ETA: And look at that--technicolor! The print I saw was black and white.
