I love the bit with Princess Margaret....
A Classic Brit Obit
It's of Danny La Rue, one of the most successful drag queens of all time:
Beneath huge headdresses and decked out in sequin-studded gowns, La Rue in his heyday would don specially-designed creations of beaded pink lace and tulle with trains of ostrich feathers up to 20ft long. Thus glorified, he became one of the best-loved professional cross-dressers of his time.
But throughout his career, La Rue took every opportunity of stressing that he was nothing more than a “fella in a frock”. Despite admitting that dressing as Shirley Bassey or Dorothy Squires “wasn’t natural really”, La Rue was at pains to point out that he never did anything “tasteless, never anything offensive”. This view was perhaps not shared by Princess Margaret who, on a backstage visit to the number one dressing room, knocked on the door only to have a stark naked La Rue throw it open and shout “Piss off!”
“I was mortified,” La Rue later recalled, “I thought she was Peter Sellers messing about.”
I'm Gud - I can dick around on the internet most of the day at work and only feel mildly guilty
That's pretty much where I'm at, although b.org is pretty much the total of my Internet activity during the day.
Improv Everywhere throw a surprise wedding reception for a couple getting married at City Hall.
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Improv Everywhere throw a surprise wedding reception for a couple getting married at City Hall.
That made me tear up on my way into a meeting! I always cry at weddings...
Okay, I was just in our lunch room and there were several people in there who had never heard of Jon Stewart, The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert. I can understand not being able to stay up and watch them, but surely you would have heard about them elsewhere...like when Stewart hosted the Oscars or when Colbert trashed W. at the Correspondent's Dinner.
That wedding reception is adorable. It's like all they wanted to do was spread a little happy.
Someone tell me to get up, get dressed, and go to the grocery store.
that was a wonderful reception -- all the fun and none of the angst. Unexpected joy.
