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Spotted Terry O’Neill yesterday morning on a bus heading down Kings Road - where else?
Along with David Bailey he’s one of the most famous photographers from the 1960s when he shot all the most iconic musicians and models.
I was pleased to see that Terry hasn’t let his success get to his head, as he was taking a No.11 bus and using his Freedom pass, given to all over 60s.
Good man!
Last night my wonderful other half, C, got to have a night out on her own and went up to the ‘cool’ part of town to see a gig with a friend of hers.
But this wasn’t any ordinary gig. Oh no, it was The Peth. For those of you not quite up-to-date with their rock trivia, The Peth is a new outfit fronted by none other than Rhys Ifans and also including Super Furry Animals Dafydd Ieuan.
Ifans used to be in an early incarnation of the SFA with Ieuan, so this isn’t exactly a complete change of direction, but they’re now doing a mini tour and played an intimate little gig last night at the Hoxton Bar & Grill in Hoxton Square.
Apparently they came on at about 10pm and, according to C, Rhys Ifans is a pretty convincing front man who’s “really working the whole Mick Jagger thing”.
It would have been nice to go myself, but sadly babysitting duties meant I stayed at home. The evening took a slightly surreal turn for me, though, when I got a couple of texts at about 11.30m from C.
- Just been dancing next to Kate Moss and Sadie Frost
My reply was: ‘I don’t know what to say to that’, to which C replied:
- Just been for wee with Samantha Morton
You can’t really top that, can you?
The Daily Mail is giving away free Michael Caine DVDs this week. Oooh, good-o, you might think. Now I can get hold of The Italian Job or Zulu without having to buy it. Sadly, you’d be mistaken.
A quick shufti at Michael Caine’s IMDB entry shows that he’s credited with more than 130 film roles - an astonishingly large body of work.
Sadly, however, a repertoire this big means that there are more than a few clunkers in there. For every Hannah And Her Sisters there are at least 10 ropey roles.
And to prove it, let me rattle off some of the DVDs that the Daily Mail is so generously giving away to readers this week: The Whistle Blower, Half Moon Street, Shiner, Without A Clue, A Shock To The System, The Statement, Shadow Run, Bullet To Beijing… the list goes on and, let me tell you, even the most hardened film buffs would be hard pushed to claim to have seen more than a couple of them.
Fortunately, Caine will always be remembered fondly for the roles that were successful, but I still wonder why he’s made so many crap films in between.
