THIS clip is so hilarious I laughed out loud for the first time in ages... it's not the dog who's funny, it's Paul O'Grady reading out viewers' letters...Paul O'Grady, used to do the best teatime show on TV... until Channel 4 inexplicably axed it... now we have to put up with ITV1's dreadful Alan Titmarch Show on ITV1, which Alan Titmarch seems to think is amazing.... The best thing about Paul O'Grady's show was his dogs, Buster the shitzu cross (too posh for me) and Olga the cairn terrier, who sat on the desk like weary balls of fur, oblivious to most goings-on... Here we see Olga sniffing a knitted poo as Mr O'Grady reads out letters from the viewers to the audience's uproarious giggles and guffaws...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL, interviewed in 1978 when she was still bang-on drugs of many descriptions, talks to a British TV interviewer about her wayward existence, "low boredom threshold and dilettanteism" and admits her life had been (to that point at least) a disaster:
MARIANNE FAITHFULL, ANITA PALLENBERG ON ROBERT FRASER
Famous art dealer to the "smart set"who lived in the fast lane and died when "only" 49..!
And doesn't former 1960s "actress-model" Anita Pallenberg (whose career highlight was a longrunning affair with Keith Richards) look rough!?!..
OMG ! that's a very long time I haven't heard from her, wasn't she involved with Mick Jagger ? I thought she was dead !
ReplyDeleteMarianne Faithfull was with Mick Jagger from the mid-60s till around 1971.
ReplyDeleteShe spent much of the 1970s homeless in Soho, central London, addicted to heroin...
In the 80s she moved to New York, where the drugs got worse and worse until eventually she tried to kill herself with an overdose and only succeeded in falling down the stairs and breaking her jaw. Around 1985 she went to rehab for the final time and has remained clean via the 12-step NA programme ever since.
She and her "whiskey-soaked voice" have done a lot of touring over the years... she recently released her 22nd album!
We used to watch the Paul O'Grady show every day - great TV.
ReplyDeleteI always thought Marianne Faithfull was so beautiful when she was young and her hairstyle was copied by practically every girl I knew, including me. She's not aged very well. :(
A hard life for Marianne.
ReplyDeleteAnita Pallenberg aged worse. The picture on the second video is Anita not Marianne... Marianne Faithfull said in the 1990s that lots of young supermodels wanted to meet up with her, they considered her the epitome of cool... turned up to lunch mashed, but were astonished to find her not even drinking alchol and noticed they were shocked every time by the damage to her face from razor-cuts (to release "maggots" from under the skin on too much coke) and having broken her jaw and been trussed up with a handle, like a human guitar for 6 months... She always said she had been killing her own life force because she was somehow afraid of it... I think I know how she feels!
ReplyDeleteI love the name Alan Titmarch. It makes me laugh. And yes, I have the maturity level of a 13-year-old.
ReplyDeleteHave a grand weekend!
OK I have a confession, the name is SUPPOSED to be Titmarsh, but I think he's a tit so I accidentally misspelled it...
ReplyDeletethis man has only been on teatime tv for a month or two and already has the temerity to refer to his own show as "the AT show" ~ I mean how pretentious can you get. Hopefully he will be marched out, the tit...
Anita may not have aged well but Keith Richards is hardly an oil painting now! Funny clip.
ReplyDeleteKeith Richards looks like man crossed with withered crow!... certainly puts paid to the myth that heroin somehow keeps you looking "younger"..!
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