Just finishing up reading Graeme Blundell's very fine biography of Graham Kennedy. Hot on the heels of the excellent more recent bio of Gordon Barton (not by Blundell btw). Are all media celebrity successes completely bizarre? And where on earth does this come from, it's extraordinary:
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way to drops!
I do believe I have bored you stupid (are you stupid yet?) with details on my attempts to at very least get my foot in the door with the Fin...
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As a child, naturally enough, I watched a lot of television and it being the early 1970s when I was a child, I watched a lot of what is no... -
This is all getting very Daniel Clowes. It is very irritating that the black boxes (as per above) are basically illegible. I think the one h...
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outrageous then (not that it would have gone to air) but these days we have survived 7:30pm broadcasts of Charlie Sheen-inspired scripts.
GCK was a true performance genius.
I agree MS. I think Blundell does a very fine job in the book of describing GK's performative abilities. The lines themselves, usually adlibbed, don't look so fine on the page, but you understand how they worked in the description of their delivery which brings them to life, in fact, more than watching old shows does. For me.
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