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Icon Girl Pistols formed in March 2008 when retired pornstar
Shinnosuke Shirakura (gt/pf/vo) discovered Ken Fukuda (dr) tapping
chopsticks on tin cans in the alleyways of Tokyo. After touring Taiwan
with Shinnosuke's other group Quizmaster in the summer, the duo
returned to Tokyo only to encounter rambling welshman Christopher
O'Reilly (bass) who pretended to be the famous pianist of the same
name until it was too late to kick him out of the band. The lineup was
completed in May 2009, when long time friend and solo artist Takashi
Hasegawa (gt/vo) was drugged, kidnapped and forced to join IGP after a
Jack Bauer-like interrogation.
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With thanks to Terry Goss. Photo by Terry Goss, copyright 2006. Animal estimated at 6,000 - 9,000 pubs in total, age around twenty years.
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Jamie and Ben Cullum came to play on John Hoare's regular monthly slot; John Hoare and Friends
Hear them HERE
8pm Sunday 10 June 2007 at
The Sun and Doves
Coldharbour Lane
Camberwell London SE5
graphic by Joe Hales
Simon Clarke, licensee - surveyor and Fair Pint campaigner with Kate Hoey MP for Lambeth, discuss the tied pub trade.
Mik pontificated whilst Jim (i think it was) wound up Mik by endlessly interrupting him. Mik was like a distractable quizmaster with Parkinsons and I never did find out the difference between a boat and ship.
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Photos from the forty-five minute workshop for 7- 10 year olds which was held Pearse Street Library, Wednesday 2nd July.
Renowned European quizmaster Karl Heinz Ruminegge is one of the world's deepest thinkers (he lives in a submarine off Hamburg). He leads an audience of armchair experts, artefacts, scientists and fans of nonsense through his own absurd quiz: Which absurd cat are you?
Known for his distinct and only mildly accented interview technique, Karl Ruminegge is also really famous. (You’ve probably seen him on TV.) One part vintage vaudevillian and one part European quiz show master, Rumminegge invites you to be led by the nose through a quiz you will find hard to remember.
Part of the Children's Art in Libraires Summer Programme 2014.
Alex Horne & The Horne section, compere and quizmaster at the BAFTA quiz, Cafe de Paris London _26K1317
Printed in archive inks on 100% cotton rag paper , image approx 46cm x 60cm
ÂŁ275 unframed ÂŁ350 framed
Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC radio's Take It From Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.
Born and brought up in his grandmother's pub, The Derby Arms in Ramsgate,[1] Kent, he spent part of his childhood in Leyton, London E10. In later years, whenever his dignified speech patterns caused listeners to assume that he had received a public-school education, Muir would demur: "I was educated in E10, not Eton." He attended Leyton County High School for Boys, though prior to this he was a pupil at Chatham House Grammar School, in Ramsgate, Kent, whose notable alumni include former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Muir stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall.
Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland. While there he became involved with the forces radio station. Also while stationed in Iceland — as he describes in his memoirs A Kentish Lad — Muir suffered a spontaneous medical condition requiring the surgical removal of one testicle.
Upon his return to civilian life, he began to write scripts for Jimmy Edwards. When Edwards teamed up with Dick Bentley on BBC Radio, Muir formed a partnership with Denis Norden, Bentley's writer, which was to last for most of his career. The vehicle created for Bentley and Edwards, Take It From Here, was written by Muir and Norden from 1948 until 1959; a last series in 1960 used other writers. For TIFH, as it became known, they created "The Glums", a deliberately awful family, which was the show's most popular segment.
In 1949, Muir married Polly McIrvine. They had two children, Jamie (born 1952), a TV producer, and Sally (born 1954), who co-founded the Muir and Osborne knitwear design company, and is married to the journalist and author Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
Muir and Norden continued to write for Edwards when he began to work for BBC television with the school comedy series Whack-O, and in the anthology series Faces of Jim. With Norden, in 1962, he was responsible for the television adaptation of Henry Cecil's comic novel Brothers in Law, which starred a young Richard Briers.
The pair were invited to appear on a new humorous literary radio quiz, My Word!. In the final round Muir and Norden each told a story to "explain" the origin of a well-known phrase. An early example took the quotation "Dead! And never called me mother!" from a stage adaptation of East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood, which became the exclamation of a youth coming out of a public telephone box which he had discovered to be out of order. In early broadcasts of My Word! the phrases were provided by the quizmaster, but in later series Muir and Norden chose their own in advance of each programme and their stories became longer and more convoluted. This became a popular segment of the quiz, and Muir and Norden later compiled several volumes of books containing some of the My Word! stories.
Frank Muir was also, like Norden, a contestant on the My Word! spinoff, My Music. As a television personality, Muir's unofficial trademark was a crisply knotted pink bow tie.
I found him to be an engaging personality with a dry wit and an acute facility for observation. Looking around the police studio, which displayed examples of forensic photography and my portraits, He said,"I believe that your portrait photography must preserve you from the insanity that your daily work could drive you to." How right he was!
Steve Corbett, Fair Pint;
Paddy Kelly, Leytons Solicitors;
Mark Dodds, Fair Pint;
Sarah Hyder, Connect PA.
British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 189. Photo: Dorothy Wilding.
British-American actress Wendy Barrie (1912-1978) had her breakthrough with The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932). In the following years, she would act with major Hollywood stars such as Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Humphrey Bogart. By the 1940s, her star began to fade. This was in no small part due to the bad publicity generated by her real-life role as the mistress of notorious underworld figure Bugsy Siegel. In the late 1940s, she made a comeback on television. Barrie appeared in more than 15 films in Britain and more than 30 in Hollywood.
Wendy Barrie was born Marguerite Wendy Jenkin(s) in 1912 in British Hong Kong, to English parents. Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin(s), was a British lawyer. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh or Sarah Cohen (the sources differ), a Russian-Jewish actress who had performed in the world's first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe. Her godfather and future stage namesake was the Scottish novelist-playwright, Sir J.M. Barrie, in whose play 'Peter Pan' was a character called Wendy. She received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland. As a teenager, she began pursuing a career as an actress, helped by her red-gold hair and blue eyes. Adopting the stage name Wendy Barrie, she played at the London Savoy Theatre in 'Wonder Bar' (1930). In 1932, she made her film debut in the British drama Threads (G.B. Samuelson, 1932). She was then signed to make several motion pictures for London Films under the Korda brothers, Zoltan and Alexander. She soon had her first major success with her role as Jane Seymour, the third of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England in The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, 1933) alongside Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon. The film was a major international success, establishing Korda as a leading filmmaker and Laughton as a box-office star. Hollywood soon also beckoned for Barrie. In 1934, she went to America where she was signed by Fox. During the next decade, she found regular employment at Paramount (1935), Universal (1936-1938) and RKO (1938-1942). I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "A blonde, vivacious lass with a certain innocent charm and an instinctive acting ability, she tended to play mostly ingenue roles in minor films and often rose above her material." Her American film debut was the screwball comedy It's a Small World (Irving Cummings, 1934) in which she co-starred with Spencer Tracy. It was followed by the romantic comedy Under Your Spell (Otto Preminger, 1936) with opera baritone Lawrence Tibbett. In 1936 she was loaned to MGM and played in Speed (Edwin L. Marin, 1936) alongside James Stewart in his first starring role. In 1937, she starred alongside Humphrey Bogart in the social drama Dead End (William Wyler, 1937). Two years later, the Sherlock Holmes classic The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sidney Lanfield, 1939) followed, in which she played the female lead alongside Basil Rathbone and Richard Greene. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "The first of the long and successful series of Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films, The Hound of the Baskervilles is smashing good fun for Holmes enthusiasts and fans of the detective thriller genre. Set in the appropriately spooky moors, Hound is an engaging adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- respectful but not slavish, and unafraid to make changes to make the film more interesting cinematically." She also co-starred with Lucille Ball in the melodrama Five Came Back (John Farrow, 1939). Her Hollywood career alternated between leads in B movies and supporting roles in bigger films.
During 1939 and the early 1940s, Wendy Barrie made several of The Saint and The Falcon mystery films with George Sanders. At the end of the 1930s, she was a member of the cast of The Jack Haley Show on NBC (1937-1938) and CBS (1938-1939). She became a naturalised American citizen in 1942. She was attired in the uniform of the women's ambulance and transport corps. In the 1940s, Wendy Barrie focused first on radio and later on television. She was an assistant on the Star for a Night radio program on the Blue Network (1943-1944), and she was one of the quizmasters on Detect and Collect on CBS (1945) and ABC (1945-1946). In 1956, she had a disc jockey program, the Wendy Barrie Show, on WMGM in New York City. She also hosted a widely syndicated radio interview show into the mid-1960s. She only acted occasionally in television programs, such as in the children's comedy The Adventures of Oky Doky (1948) featuring a cowboy puppet. In the same year, she decided to embark on what turned out to be a successful new career as television host of her own pioneering talk show on daytime television, Picture This (1948), followed by The Wendy Barry Show (1948-1950). Her trademark sign-off was "Be a good bunny". Her relaxed, informal style brought her great popularity and plaudits from television critics like Jack Gould of the New York Times. That program was replaced by Through Wendy's Window in August 1950. The 15-minute NBC program had Barrie interviewing celebrities and talking about fashions. She continued to appear on network television on panel shows in the early 1950s, and also as a spokesperson for commercial products, including a stint as the original Revlon saleswoman on The $64,000 Question. In 1950, she performed as a substitute for Jean Arthur in 'Peter Pan', along with Boris Karloff, at the Imperial Theatre, in New York City. Her last film was the comedy It Should Happen to You (George Cukor, 1954) with Judy Holliday. In 1962, Wendy Barrie stopped acting. In the mid-1970s, she suffered a stroke which affected her mental state and she spent the last years of her life at a nursing home in Englewood, New Jersey. There she died in 1978 at the age of 65. She is buried at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Wendy Barrie has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1708 Vine Street). Wendy Barrie was reportedly engaged to and had a daughter named Carolyn with the infamous gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Later, she was married to textile manufacturer David L. Meyer.
Sources: I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Craig Butler (AllMovie), Hollywood Walk of Fame, Wikipedia (Dutch, German and English) and IMDb.
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I was tagged by ffrederic and Beetabonk, whose photostreams are fascinating, both tell a great story in different but beautiful ways, so be sure to visit them.
So here the 16 tidbits
1. I love dutch pea soup ("snert"). We eat pea soup in winter. I hate winter
2. I love low light. Low light's in winter. I hate winter
3. I hate cold and short days, I love summer.
3. My favourite dish is bouillabaisse, I can eat that in summer
4. i'm painting, I'm painting again!
5. I earn money drawing and designing, I am lucky.
6. I have a daytime job too, three days of the week.
7. I have this debilitating ability: I write down important information (like a telephone number or a date) on a small piece of paper, I lay this piece of paper in front of me on my desk, I look up, I look down, and the piece of paper is gone, not to be found again.
I am half a magician.
8. I once participated in a TV Quiz programme (and failed on recognizing a tune by Jamie Cullum, I thought it was by Michael Bublé) because I fancied the woman who was Quizmaster and a friend applied in my name and I had no choice but to go.
9. I'm growing older, so I try to live day by day, now is the future, taking pictures helps to do this, observe the world clearer, be more aware of time.
10. I love the city, any city, I love to walk endlessly through cities.
11. To name a favourite book is impossible, i'd have to name forty books, but the one that swept me away when I was 18 was "Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry.
12. To name a favourite album is impossible, i'd have to name sixty albums, but the one that swept me away when I was 18 was "Chairs missing" by Wire.
13. To name a favourite movie is impossible, i'd have to name eighty movies, but the one that swept me away when I was 18 was "Im Lauf der Zeit" by Wim Wenders.
14. To name a favourite painter is impossible, i'd have to name hundred painters, but the one that swept me away when I was 18, was Francis Bacon.
15. But I know what my favourite painting is: "The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel, the one in the museum Boijmans in Rotterdam. This is a fairly small painting but it is like looking through a window into another universe.
16. I live alone. But you can find my family on flickr: my daughters, their mother, my sister.
They are wonderful people.
I will tag mrs_b2007, Anabou and 2000 B.C. (if they haven't been tagged already)