tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post929358568277477782..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: Whitewashing Whitehouseanticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-76345896786428645752008-06-04T01:19:00.000+00:002008-06-04T01:19:00.000+00:00What /I/ want to know is who played the gay husban...What /I/ want to know is who played the gay husband. in /Run For Your Wives/ at the Criterion, in 1986?Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-41340285528331678382008-06-03T20:36:00.000+00:002008-06-03T20:36:00.000+00:00Didn't Mary Whitehouse play Priestley's Mrs Birlin...Didn't Mary Whitehouse play Priestley's Mrs Birling at Albany? Or am I confused?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-15727783596335855592008-06-02T20:37:00.000+00:002008-06-02T20:37:00.000+00:00Thanks, Emmett, but if the ZaNuLab Stasi do call r...Thanks, Emmett, but if the ZaNuLab Stasi do call round here it is more likely to be because I've put the wrong garbage into the wrong collection bin [see "Nanny Knows Best"'s recent blog 'Bin Brother - show me your papers']. This is the "freedom" Churchill told us we'd won the war for. Ye Gods!....<BR/><BR/>Being pedantic, it is "Albany, Piccadilly" - not "THE Albany". Yes, the Trust was named after it because one of our founding Trustees, Jacquetta Hawkes, and her even more famous husband J.B Priestley, had their London home there and quite often hosted Trustees' meetings.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-8926754032354924412008-06-02T20:08:00.000+00:002008-06-02T20:08:00.000+00:00Aunty, I expect the lads will be by shortly to hav...Aunty, I expect the lads will be by shortly to have YOU up in front of the magistrate on Public Order charges yourself, for posting ('placarding' on-line, /eg/) material occasional of distress: to homophobes; to fans of Ms WhiteHORSE, the Alberta, Canada, Ojibwe Indian lady-conjurer; and, to those confused souls who are fans of Ms WINEhouse and think (/sic/) that somehow you are traducing her, by suggesting she is /not/ in favour of young sex. this all ahs the makings, alas, of a trrue bill, I fear...it IS a funny old world....<BR/><BR/>BY-The-by, is that 'Albany' for /the/ Albany, in the West End?Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-40188831838262264432008-05-31T21:50:00.000+00:002008-05-31T21:50:00.000+00:00It may be wonderful stuff to read on a blog, but i...It may be wonderful stuff to read on a blog, but it certainly wasn't wonderful stuff to experience at the time. I and a couple of colleagues ended up with nervous breakdowns, and her vicious attack was, I'm sure, instrumental in getting the Albany Trust's modest government grant terminated a few weeks after Thatcher won the 1979 election. <BR/><BR/>I'm so angry about the rubbishing of Greene that I have written to the current BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson, and will report his reply [if he deigns to send me one] in due course.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-76422582374405484002008-05-31T20:04:00.000+00:002008-05-31T20:04:00.000+00:00Wonderful stuff AC. I must admit, having watched t...Wonderful stuff AC. I must admit, having watched the thing last night - via a strictly non-Murdoch Freeview + system, Merkin - I did pause to consider whether, maybe, just maybe, I had had her down wrong. <BR/><BR/>Agreed bensix: for f**** sake, what must Greene's family be thinking about the dramatic licence taken with his character?<BR/>I usually steer well clear of these fictufactudocuhalfisandhalfisntmentaryramas for that very reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-23572024151270798072008-05-29T20:03:00.000+00:002008-05-29T20:03:00.000+00:00An excellent post. The irony of the portrayal of H...An excellent post. <BR/><BR/>The irony of the portrayal of Hugh Greene is that the play won plaudits for it's 'insightful' and 'three dimensional' characterisation, and yet was partially a hatchet job on a perfectly innocent man who commissioned TW3 and Dennis Potter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-90469922162192771192008-05-29T17:27:00.000+00:002008-05-29T17:27:00.000+00:00What disgusted me far more than the sugar plum fai...What disgusted me far more than the sugar plum fairy treatment of Whitehouse was the sneery portrayal of Hugh Greene as a snobbish, lecherous, foul-mouthed, frivolously irresponsible charlatan who was obviously unfitted [in the view of the writer of this play] for his post of BBC Director General. <BR/><BR/>While no-one is perfect, Greene was probably the most forward looking and innovative DG the BBC has ever had. Sensing a new spirit of adventurous change and aspiration for greater personal freedom and social democracy in the 1960s air, he sought to move the BBC forward from the stuffily conventional, forelock-tugging Reith era and to position it competitively against the challenge of the new commercial stations. <BR/><BR/>Obviously, such an enterprise aroused nothing but hostility from the likes of Mary Whitehouse, but Greene was basically right in holding that the extreme puritanism of their values was not in tune with the bulk of the British public. <BR/><BR/>The problem with this programme was that while some of the episodes depicted were based on actual occurrences, fictional elements were inextricably mixed in so that it gave anything but an accurate picture.<BR/><BR/>I can't help wondering whether the present DG is pleased to see one of his predecessors depicted in such a lopsidedely unflattering manner in a BBC programme.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-62586799660885649582008-05-29T15:56:00.000+00:002008-05-29T15:56:00.000+00:00A whoe lot of "bad karma" going on.A whoe lot of "bad karma" going on.zola a social thinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206983697656466653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-44343981957743305552008-05-29T13:04:00.000+00:002008-05-29T13:04:00.000+00:00Well, I just hope you can make your views known on...Well, I just hope you can make your views known on the various fora that are going to run with the story.<BR/><BR/>As I write, I am sitting looking at a copy of 'Speaking Out' and am reminded of the Katherine Whitehorn quote about 'born again' people.<BR/>The fight goes on.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-55220643324644449832008-05-29T12:54:00.000+00:002008-05-29T12:54:00.000+00:00It's all very well to have lofty principles, but n...It's all very well to have lofty principles, but not to lie shamelessly in order to promote them.<BR/><BR/>What riled me very much was that the Anglican church, which in those days was much more socially liberal than it is now, never publicly rebuked Mary Whitehouse over any of her OTT antics, even though they were well aware of what scumbags the MRA crowd were.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-85773762612432183522008-05-29T12:24:00.000+00:002008-05-29T12:24:00.000+00:00Hi Anti, was looking forward very much to your com...Hi Anti, was looking forward very much to your comments on this matter.<BR/><BR/>You have not disappointed.<BR/>An odious woman whose best contribution in life was to 'haue shufflel'd off this mortall coil'.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.com