Thank you. I thought his name was just Lance! I had even googled it to check but the site I looked at must have just had his surname. I was thinking Dustin Diamond had made an appearance which really confused me because he's dead.
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isn’t it based on the joyce carol oates’ novel blonde? i read it a while back but i don’t think the lead character in it is ever even named as marilyn, just a marilyn adjacent sort of starlet character.
there’s a lot of weird and awful stuff in that book that i can’t imagine in a film tbh.
Can’t even begin to tell you how much i loved that book. I was 18 and I’ve never forgotten it. I wasn’t mad about the mini series as I’d read the book first but I still watched it.Who remembers The Thornbirds? Can't believe Bryan is 75!
Thorn Birds stars who fell in love still together 40 years later
The Thorn Birds had at its heart a love triangle featuring actress Rachel Ward as Meggie, Richard Chamberlain as conflicted priest Ralph and Aussie actor Bryan Brown as Meggie’s future husband, Lukewww.mirror.co.uk
Bit in bold, YES! It’s why the Daily Mail picked it up, they love an excuse to downplay actual racism.
loved the book, never watched the series, have only now registered that this is the guy from cocktail!Who remembers The Thornbirds? Can't believe Bryan is 75!Thorn Birds stars who fell in love still together 40 years later
The Thorn Birds had at its heart a love triangle featuring actress Rachel Ward as Meggie, Richard Chamberlain as conflicted priest Ralph and Aussie actor Bryan Brown as Meggie’s future husband, Luke
I think TikTok can give a lot of uneducated North Americans on TikTok (not putting North Americans all in one basket btw) a huge voice trying to gatekeep black culture incorrectly and then other uneducated people think it’s gospal. I’m shocked to see how many people on TikTok think everyone who is black is “African American”, they know no other culture and therefore it doesn’t exist in their minds. I saw one TikTok of a black British Man being told “oh I though you was black” when he spoke to a cop in NYC. Anyway, waaaaay off topic. But TikTok can be detrimental to the movement by people like her, I’m sure she posted another one saying no white people can watch Black Panther or something wild.
So sick of mini dictators on social media policing what people can say or do. You wouldn’t listen to them if you were sitting with them in a room, just because social media has provided them with the means, doesn’t mean we should all listen to them. Ignoring their “wisdom” is the best thing, giving them publicity like the Mail has feeds into their egotism and delusions that they are worth listening to.
Gonna sound like an old lady here (I am one!) but this is a natural consequence of the social justice movement that has captured so many young - and not so young - people. Everything is framed as oppressor vs. the oppressed.
To be marginalised actually gives someone more social cachet than anything else, which is why we now have young people adopting “queer” identities even though they’re heterosexual, self-identifying as disabled and trans etc etc.
Has anyone ever read any of the books by Simon Napier Bell? He's best known as a manager of bands like The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, T Rex, Japan and Wham! His book - "Black Vinyl White Powder" sounds a fascinating insight to the industry: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/342597/black-vinyl-white-powder-by-simon-napier-bell/9780091880927 and his one about Wham! in China equally so. https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/174644/simon-napier-bell
Wtf is wrong with peopleDrew Barrymore has been accused of colonialism due to the video she posted of her enjoying a rainstorm. A person on tiktok claims she’s copied a trend dubbed 'black men frolicking.' Someone called amushroomblackly said ‘you and I both know you are capable of enjoying the rain, frolicking freely, without filming it and posting it to TikTok.’ And that she’s part of a group that 'just go out of their way to disrespect and dismiss the boundaries that black creators have set’ and that Drew had ‘opened the floodgates for people who disrespect black creators.'
Drew Barrymore is accused of being racist for video of her frolicking
Drew Barrymore was branded racist over a video of herself enjoying a rainstorm - after woke killjoys claimed she'd copied a trend dubbed 'black men frolicking.'www.dailymail.co.uk
There was a previous biography that claimed she was sexually assaulted by a woman, if I'm remembering correctly.
I'm also reminded of the book / film My Week With Marylin, which was basically Colin Clark making tit up, or at the very least exaggerating. Although given his brother's attitude to the truth at times, in both military history and politics, thats perhaps not that surprising. Funnily enough they didn't get on that well at times.
There's nothing where this is more obvious than with neo-pronouns- Ze/Zir and Fae/Faer etc...
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These are new to me.I am so out of touch about this side of things that I am genuinely worried about accidentally offending someone.
Ooh! You're taking me down a rabbit hole. Seems that you can watch Thornbirds on Amazon Prime.I remember The Thorn Birds! I was a bit young at the time, but I remember it being on - my Mum loved it. Around that time (early 80s) quite a lot of the big bestsellers we’re televised. I remember Lace with Phoebe Cates and A Woman of Substance with Jenny Seagrave. There were also a few of Jackie Collins’ books done, Hollywood Wives was one, and maybe a couple of Jilly Cooper’s. Incidentally, I’m sure I read the other day that Riders is getting a reboot by some channel, can’t remember which.
ETA: Sorry, it’s Rivals and it’s Disney+ who are going to do it.
Jilly Cooper bestseller Rivals set for eight-part TV adaptation
The second novel in Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles – following Britain’s sex and power-mad elites of the 1980s – will have a ‘2020s lens’ in a new Disney+ serieswww.theguardian.com
I also vaguely remember a book about a poor relation. Might have been Scruples by Judith Krantz.
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Yes! I’m 50 now. I always remember back when I was a teen, somebody had nicked their Mum’s copy of Lace and brought it in to school (we were all about 13/14 I reckon) and it got passed around so much for everyone to read the dirty bits, that it got to the stage that if the book was dropped it literally fell open at a raunchy scene! I remember a goldfish in one, and maybe something to do with Alka Seltzers?!Sounds like we grew up in the same era.... "Which of you witches is my mother?"
To be honest, I read it again a couple of years ago for the nostalgia. I enjoyed it as more innocent times, by which I mean no mobile phones or internet…people making their own entertainment….with Alka Seltzers!
Aw I remember Asif. Poor guy
www.dailymail.co.uk
Former BBC EastEnders star Ashvin Luximon, 38, dies from aneurysm
Ashvin Luximon passed away on July 23 of this year, with the funeral taking place on August 11. He played Asif Malik in the BBC drama, a role he portrayed from September 1999 to October 2003.
Rebecca Adlington tragically reveals she has suffered a miscarriage
The 33-year-old has revealed that she tragically suffered a miscarriage this week after falling pregnant with her third child just 12 weeks ago.
Just going to say that that is awful and I do feel for her having to go through that.
Now the bitchy bit. Just seen her husband for the first time. She's punching isn't she?
Now the bitchy bit. Just seen her husband for the first time. She's punching isn't she?
Hunky stunt rider bombarded with lusty messages after video goes viral https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-viral.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead
Cue a stampede to Warwick Castle
Cue a stampede to Warwick Castle
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