Mmm, yes, she is a good actress but book didn't appeal. I did read both of Sheila Hancock's, and the first in particular about her life with John Thaw was terribly moving. Darryn Lyons is as wild as his name! A big Aussie with a shock of pink Mohican! (I said biog, it is in fact an auto one!) What you have to bear in mind that a fair proportion of papped shots are set up with the subject in advance. Often with their taking a cut, or at least having some control over when and where snapped in order to best suit them.
yeah, i once saw a programme on telly with sheila hancock talking about her life with john thaw (possibly a plug for the book)-i would like to read that, too! i think i've seen the guy with the mohican on tv... i'm kind of down on the whole fake celeb/pap thing altogether. i don't even know who most of these 'celebs' are, never mind what, if anything, they do to justify their 'celebrity' status. i just find the whole thing rather naff..and really, really sad! but there you go...that's just me, i guess..
Didn't think I'd have time for reading, but have got engrossed in Franny Moyle's Desperate Romantics, which is an account of the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and been propping my eyes open at 3am to dip into it. Intriguing stuff. Have loved that art form for many many years.
The last book I read was my friends :biggrin: (he even aknowledged me in the intro', a nice gesture). Tales from the road, and of internal paradigm shifts as a result of an experience at a Peruvian shamanic ceremony (or was he now simply seeing the world for how it really was...?) http://www.lulu.com/content/4260227
Robert Newman "The Fountain at the Centre of the world" Our Hidden Lives - The Diaries of Post War Britain" both very good indded.
i prefer them paintings of chubby redheads, myself! i've just started jools holland's autobiography... so far, so good! that's not the title, btw...
Well, the PRB were noted for their red-haired 'stunners'! This book was a JGR (Jolly Good Read). One amusing anecdote in it was that when they set up a studio together and put 'PRB' on the doorbell, they said that the initiated would know what it stood for while those who didn't thought it would simply be ' Please Ring Bell'. Later, a friend of Walter Deverell, one of the artists and a bit of a sex-god, commented that for him PRB stood for 'Penis Rather Better'! :biggrin: Have now gone onto 'The Sisters who would be Queen: The Tragedy Of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey'.
I'm currently reading a book a friend gave me called Academy Zappa, Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology! Quite a good read so far.. :conehead: :sifone:
Good Sports Reading !! Well I haven't bought the Sports news paper for years ( It does really have some good sports pages !! ) .... in fact I haven't bought ANY newspaper for yonks ... but today I wanted to buy a copy of something to see if anyone could make their write-up of Barnsley's boring match on Saturday any way interesting ! I could have picked any newspaper ... but something drew me to the Sunday Sport ... [ NOTE : Do NOT read this, if you are easily offended !!!! ] http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ypT7OaNHvKlR1pKEWe2XtA?feat=directlink
It's pretty amazing Steve, I'm on a chapter called "Xenoarrangements or Insane Hard-Core Fanatic Not Inclined To Come Out Of his Own Monomaniacal World" Discussing the musical techniques of Zappa, Xenochrony, but this time with guitar solo's and not drum rythm's :biggrin: No wonder some people think I'm on another planet when I say I'm into Roy Harper & Frank Zappa! Normal People Worry Me...:sifone:
It's real life, mate...ain't a lot of laughs in history...plenty of sex and intrigue though!:biggrin:
i never but a newspaper, apart from the occasional chronicle, but that 'newspaper' is just genius! i sometimes see it at work. i think the wife would kill me if i brought it into the house, mind you...
