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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emily symons speaks out! thirty four years ago!
As is so often the case with these interviews, I have precisely no memory of meeting Emily Symons, though you'd think I would because I ...
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Thank you to Paul Hudson for supplying the strip for 24 May from (I assume) the London Daily Mail, which was missing from the North Americ...
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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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