Re: Goodies

"Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman)" <laojim@spam.cox.net> wrote:
> Roger the Saurus wrote:
>> "MartinS" <me@my.place> wrote...
>>> "Roger the Saurus" <rogeruppercwmbran@bollix.talktalk.net>
wrote:
>>>> "MartinS" <me@my.place> wrote...
>>>>> Magnet <magnet2149@mailknickers.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Waldo Centini wrote:
>>>>>>> frommelde Pope Pie (Sy Lehrman) :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Oh.  They were all part of ISIRTA with rambling Sid
Rumpo
>>>>>>> Ramblin' Syd Rumpo was a character made famous by Kenneth
>>>>>>> Williams, and appeared in Round The Horne.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Get your facts straight, boys!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> The facts might have been straight but Julian and Sandy from
that
>>>>>> show weren't. Neither was Kenneth Horne, apparently. First time
I
>>>>>> have ever heard that. Where did you get the info from?
>>> Well, he's on this list, but then so is Muffin the Mule.
>>>
>>> http://www.nakedblog.com/gaylinkspage.htm
>>>
>>> Oddly, I can't even find an obituary for Kenneth Horne.
>>>
>>> Trying to Google for "Kenneth Horne" and "gay" keeps
throwing up
>>> Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, who also played the slightly less
>>> outrageous gay couple Rodney and Charles on the earlier "Beyond Our
>>> Ken".
>>
>> That makes me suspect it's the Julian and Sandy connection that puts
>> him there. Barry Took's excellent "Complete and utter history of
>> Round the Horne" makes no mention of it whereas Kenneth Williams and
>> Hugh Paddick are happily outed. Barry Took and Marty Feldman who
>> wrote the stuff aren't in there are they?
>
> Are we talking Marty Feldman with the big eyes or is this a different
> Mary Feldman?

The same. He was a talented comedy writer as well as a comedian and
comic actor. He used to claim his eyesight was fine, despite his eyes
pointing in opposite directions.

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Martin S.
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