Pick up a pie, get a paper dress for a buck 25! Johnston's ad and offer, 1966.

MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."

Lionel Jeffries in The Quatermass Xperiment (1955). His age at the time? TWENTY NINE

Insane 1957 British horror movie now on Amazon Prime Video. Dying tycoon George Coulouris (from Citizen Kane!), decides the cure is to replace his brain with that of the revivified head of Nostradamus. The ending must be seen to believed.

Insane 1957 British horror movie now on Amazon Prime Video. Dying tycoon George Coulouris (from Citizen Kane!), decides the cure is to replace his brain with that of the revivified head of Nostradamus. The ending must be seen to believed.

Blessed with the world’s most photogenic mog

Astonishingly potent line about Britain at the dawn of the 80s in Larry Grayson’s Generation Game: “It says here you took a Cordon Bleu cookery course but it was a waste of time as your husband only likes sausage and chips”

Sorry but I must show you a Fred

Cinderella narrated by David Frost with Beryl Reid, Babs Windsor, Una Stubbs and Nicky Henson? Yes please!

My talented wife @jeaniefinlay.com has turned my 'Adrian Chills' stories (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles) into actual columns!

“Despite”

New Bond should begin with a slap-bang action sequence ending with Bond in the arms of a lovely lady. Line: “Don’t worry, only the rumours of my DEATH were exaggerated” and we’re off

Finds. I’ve never even heard of Flesh & Blood, which sounds basically like T’Brothers Up North

Fermented rice riots? For fuck’s saké

One of the best book titles ever

Top fact: the surname of the police constable who attended when Quentin Crisp was found dead in Chorlton-cun-Hardy was Cissey

Larry Grayson to Generation Game contestant: It says here you’re a big Judy Garland fan and you’ve seen The Wizard of Oz seven times. The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan. We couldn’t get him here tonight, because he’s dead.

Hooray!

Brought this little fella home from the beach. Hope it’s not going to be a Hexham Heads situation

New detective series

He’s wondering how she’s got two of him down there

If David Harbour changed his name to Sydney and then married Phoebe Waller-Bridge he could call himself Sydney Harbour-Bridge. Probably won’t happen though.

Blurgh

Watched this extraordinary film on Amazon Prime Video last night. Crimes of Passion mixed with Suspiria with a sprinkling of David Lynch m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5...

Hugh Paddick & Kenneth Williams reunited as Julian & Sandy on Wogan in 1987. Lovely stuff. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iA8Z...

Larry Grayson to Generation Game contestant: “Your name’s Mo [turns to her much shorter son] and I suppose you’re half a Mo”

Watching a Generation Game. One of the loveliest things about Larry Grayson is that he’s one of a lost generation of gay film buffs with an encyclopedic knowledge of old movies he drops in at any opportunity. There’s a show where he interviews Anna Neagle & it’s like a gay of today meeting Madonna.

Hugh Paddick & Kenneth Williams reunited as Julian & Sandy on Wogan in 1987. Lovely stuff. m.youtube.com/watch?v=iA8Z...

Ripped from @hellothisisivan.bsky.social 's account at the old place. Hope he doesn't mind. It is both priceless and important this is seen as we think about Tony Adams.

Good evening

Today’s haul

3 French men, 2 turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree actually

Feeling the increased dose of sertraline today

Here’s the Vincent Price episode of Blankety Blank. He is the personification of charm but you also have the joy of Beryl Reid & Larry Grayson seated next to each other & an adorably ditzy Carol Drinkwater m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fE7...

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Now on Amazon Prime

I think in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death I was too absolute about how you shouldn’t be glad someone’s been killed. I will make an exception for people who’ve raped babies.

The thing I most miss about my childhood is the voiceover informing me that one of the actors in the programme I just watched is appearing in When Did You Last See Your Trousers? in a provincial theatre

Paint the fence! Run the raffle Cut the orange- it’s half time!

Friday

Got this off the Tesco charity bookcase. Is it any good?

Coming to Talking Pictures TV soon. I am so excited! www.oldtimereview.co.uk/who-do-you-d...

“Ooh that Maine Coon next door’s no better than she should be”

Always a pleasure to see Gary Russell's Dick in CEX

Worst Kim Woodburn tribute act ever

His biggest seller was a house number plaque with an owl on it to which he affixed the numbers while people waited. He sent one to his fave Corrie characters, Mavis & Derek, but they wrote to say it arrived broken, with a signed photo that was pinned up in our hall for years

Anyway if you want to know more there’s a film all about it

Up until my mum died when I was 10 my dad was a milkman & I went with him on his round on Saturday mornings (up at 3am, break at about 8 for a Milky Lunch bar & the latest Beano for me, page 3 for my dad). The tips I got from elderly customers paid for my Dr Who video collection.