two deaths this week
the first is jack douglas, best known as a regular in the carry on films, often playing sid james' gormless sidekick
a couple of years ago, tv3 screened a different carry on each day during the christmas break. i'm not a huge fan, but having a fondness for british comedy, i tuned in when i wasn't doing anything else
they were, i guess, a kind of filmed seaside postcard, mild smut, double entendres and so on
the best of them were parodies of other films (carry on cleo, carry on henry) and so on
its odd but as films became more permissive, the team kept on with the same old format and so looked tired and out of date. the one time where they tried to matchn the "confessions" series was the worst carry on i'd seen-carry on emmanuelle.
my fellow dead list collector robbie and i tried to work out how many carry on regulars are left.
barbara windsor is currently on eastenders, apparently jim dale does the audio book versions of harry potter-after that we got into an arguement over who as a regular.
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Read Kenneth Williams's diaries over the summer. You know, he never rated any of the film, TV or radio work he did. He saw himself first and foremost as a stage actor.
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