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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
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| 1:56a | С. Борисов - Песня о добром человеке Кто это? Больше он ничего не умел, больше он ничего не хотел.... |
| 6:22p | RIP: Terry Major-Ball ...Private Eye's reviewer, hailing it as an unquestionable classic, wrote that it "makes you proud to be English. No foreigner could dream of such a masterpiece. It is one of the most distinctive products of our great civilisation, up there with Durham Cathedral, the Elgar cello concerto, Adnam's bitter and the double-decker bus. When John Major has been quite forgotten this book will, if there is any justice, be shelved between The Young Visiters and The Diary of a Nobody."... ...He met Liza Minelli in Joe Allen's and found New York cabbies unfailingly obliging. He told John about his adventures. He "listened politely and with genuine interest. Then he said, 'Sorry, Terry, I must go now. I'm due at a meeting, in the Cabinet Room.' "As he left his flat to go downstairs, I thought once again how very little time for relaxation there is in the busy life of a Prime Minister."... Terry Major-Ball Last Updated: 2:13am BST 21/04/2007 Terry Major-Ball, who has died aged 74, first came to the attention of the nation in November 1990 on the night that his younger brother John became Prime Minister. Reporters gathered outside his house in Wallington, Surrey, hoping for some insights into the life of the new Tory leader who had emerged from unpromising south London beginnings to succeed Margaret Thatcher. He would later recall how furious he was about some of the things the commentators were saying that evening about his father, a former circus clown and garden gnome manufacturer. Yet, when he went outside to speak to ITV's News at Ten in a dazzling pool of light, it was a disaster. "My face looked bloated and I seemed drunk," he wrote in his autobiography Major Major (1994), ghostwritten by James Hughes-Onslow. "What on earth can people have thought? In fact I hadn't consumed anything stronger than a cup of tea. It was a useful lesson to me that you can't be too careful with the media dragon." ( Read more... ) |
| 6:41p | RIP: Susan Elliott Susan Elliott Last Updated: 2:13am BST 21/04/2007 Susan Elliott, who has died aged 65, had an open marriage for 30 years with Denholm Elliott, the actor, who lived a secret double life as a promiscuous bisexual until his death from Aids in 1992. She was a 19-year-old actress in 1961 when Elliott proposed. He was 20 years older, and his first brief marriage to Virginia McKenna had ended in divorce. They had met in New York, at the Strollers' Club on 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan, where Susan Robinson, as she then was, was working as a singing waitress. It was an unlikely pairing. Susan was an American convent girl, while Elliott, a louche and very English thespian, admitted at the outset to having had male lovers. While she came from a patrician family of writers, he was a chronically insecure actor, a star of The Cruel Sea (1953), whose career, he thought, was on the slide.  Denholm Elliott ( Read more... ) In 1987 Elliott told her he had tested HIV positive. Having just bought Sandy's Bar on Ibiza, they hurriedly sold the business on, but in London five years later Susan decided that she wanted him to die on the island and she emptied her bank account to hire a private jet for him. He died at his villa on Ibiza in October 1992 aged 70. In his memory, Susan Elliott established a hotel complex on Ibiza called Can Bufi, where people who are HIV positive could enjoy a free holiday, subsidised by 16 paying guests. Susan Elliott died in a fire at her home in London on April 12. She is survived by her son, her twin brother and a sister. Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited |
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