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Thanks Tombuktu, dying to listen to this. I’ve heard the story about the original Grease being vastly different from the movie, for one thing the songs most associated with Grease, the title track,...
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Samantha Barks version of ‘As Long……’ in this production pretty much defines ‘bravura’ – gets an ovation every night: and Neil Morrissey is a very effective if frankly derivative of the Moody Fagin. It...
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Though I’d have to say the original songs in Grease aren’t anything to write home about, here’s what Summer Nights was like in the show as opposed to the film. The fact that the guy originally in the...
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Having once written a play, I know there’s nothing lowly about tech assistants. I’d never even heard of the Bart psychedelic album but this song comes from it. Not sure what I think of it but perhaps...
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Not sure what I think of it but perhaps there was a copy floating around the Albarn household when Damon was a nipper. Weird – I figured Albarn pere might be a tenuous link to Bart but it turns out...
View ArticleComment on Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? by richotto
Thats agreeable to me. A major selling point is I believe that it was a slightly gentler Bond here perhaps reflecting of late 60s culture. I would’nt be particularly bothered watching the ones since as...
View ArticleComment on Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? by WorldbyStorm
You’re very welcome.
View ArticleComment on Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? by Ramzi Nohra
Thats interesting (the link to Frederick and Nina). I knew Fred had become a drug smuggler – he was mentioend in the Howard Marks autobiography, but hadnt realised he had been shot dead. Merry christmas!
View ArticleComment on Democracy by sonofstan
Likewise with any Catholic appeal to a notion of ‘rights’ – including the ‘right’ to life.
View ArticleComment on Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? by WorldbyStorm
I know, it’s sort of like merry Christmas is the only response to that grim a tale. Makes the song seem even more ironic than its use in the film. I’ve never read his book, but must check it out.
View ArticleComment on Democracy by WorldbyStorm
That’s very true. Tbh it seems desperately cynical of him to use that language of democratic validation.
View ArticleComment on Democracy by Forbolg
I think it’s widely accepted that the RCC does not operate as a democratic institution . This should hardly debar it from contributing to public discourse .It is unfortunate that they seem they seem to...
View ArticleComment on Democracy by Tomboktu
Not just here. In England, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9765997/Judge-criticises-Government-for-focus-on-minority-issue-of-gay-marriage.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a...
View ArticleComment on Democracy by Hank Tree
We’re talking about democracy in two very different ways here. I’m not sure using the two meanings interchangeably is particularly instructive. It’s a bit trivial.
View ArticleComment on Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? by richotto
One interesting thing I read was that George Lazenby was dubbed in OHMSS by George Baker who also played the small part of Sir Hilary, a genealogist in the film. He trained Bond to assume his identity...
View ArticleComment on A question on the IRA, the CPI and the USSR in 1969 by Dr. X
There’s a paper about the wartime Special Operations Executive, written by MRD Foot, in which he claims that the USSR was backing both republicans and loyalists in NI. Now, that’s a claim that doesn’t...
View ArticleComment on Well I never! by CMK
I read this coverage briefly in the paper itself. The whole premise of their ‘shock horror’ tone was completely undermined by their noting that Ellis, when he did face a trial, he was aquitted. I has...
View ArticleComment on Economic systems by LeftAtTheCross
Thanks for that Tomboktu, very timely as I just finished <i>Red Plenty</i> about an hour ago. I'll have a read of that <i>Jacobin</i> article a bit later. <i>Red...
View ArticleComment on Well I never! by Bartley
@eamonncork Eamon Gilmore, the current Tanaiste, was, just over two decades back, a TD in a party successively led by Pronsias De Rossa and Tomas MacGiolla, both of whom had served time for IRA...
View ArticleComment on Well I never! by John Joyce
De Rossa successfully sued the sunday independent and Eamon Dunphy for what Bartley has said above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proinsias_De_Rossa#Libel_action Of course, it would be WBS as the...
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