Dame Twiggy?!?!

Palin deserves whatever high honours he's offered for his performances in Life of Brian alone. He's up there with Peter Sellers in that one.

No honors for the penguin on the television set?

I love his travel writing.

I like Twiggy. I'm not sure she deserves to be a Dame but for someone who's had such crazy teenage years she sure turned into a nice and very sane person. I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about her.

I'm reading her wiki page right now. Here's a funny random info:

[quote] Twiggy's great great grandmother, Grace Meadows, then living under her maiden name Grace Gillies, died in a stampede of excitable shoppers at a bargain sale at Messrs McIllroys store in Mare Street in Hackney in 1897.

Twiggy defined mod chic.

Palin was very cute in the 70s/80s.

Beautiful brown eyes.

"Popular" is cute even if not great, r12. Otherwise, thanks r4 for your correct use of "caterwauling." It's been decades since I've heard or seen that word.

Albert Finney has turned down the Knighthood several times.

He’s also never attended the Oscars even though he’s been nominated 5 times.

Guess he just wasn’t interested.

Sir John fucking Redwood - ridiculous.

A depressingly small number of people turn them down.

Sorry, I posted my reply at r7 in the Wicked thread yet here it showed up.

Meanwhile, Twiggy was fabulous on Broadway with Tommy Tune in "My One and Only" and also with Tune in Ken Russell's film "The Boy Friend,"

I'm not quite sure why she deserves a damehood.

R11. Longevity

All I've see her do in the past 10 years is ads for M&S, longevity of life perhaps but not career R11, I think it's TPTB hamfisted attempt at the common touch.

These people gave a KBE to Sir Kevin Spacey.

[quote]I'm not quite sure why she deserves a damehood.

She does charity stuff in England. Stuff like that.

What bugs me the most is when people who abandoned England get honoured. Fuck that shit.

[quote] ^^ She was born in London [bold]but later became a US citizen./[bold] “Obviously this is a city that I grew up in, a city that I have so much affection and love for,” she said. “It’s always wonderful to get an award, but this one is extra special.”

Some of the choices this year are ridiculous. An OBE for Gareth Southgate and an MBE for Harry Kane? England only finished in fourth place at the World Cup!

Of course.

We know where Michael's political beliefs lay.

Am I the only person in the world who hopes someone snatches Anna Wintour’s gollum wig off her gollum head?

[quote]England only finished in fourth place at the World Cup!

Yes, and they’ll never have a better World Cup performance so queenie has to strike while the iron’s hot.

Bowie turned it down.

Dame Twiggy before Dame Lulu?! What a fackin' liberty!

She received the honours from Prince Charles today:

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yay!!

They honor tons of every day people and it's usually based on their charitable or other community work.

They used to only give these to distinguished theatre actors - movie actors need not apply. And then the government wanted to be popular and started giving them to anybody - Rod Stewart. Jesus wept.

I think Dame is kind of a stupid title, it just makes me think of a pantomime dame. If men get to be a Sir, then women should get to be a lady. That might be worth giving up socialism for.

Wasn't "dame" actually a derogatory word for women in the past? At least that's the impression I got from those old Hollywood films, where they often refer to women who are up to no good as dames.

I don't get the suit/hat combo. They don't work together.

She'll be Dame Leslie Lawson really I suppose.

Her poor husband Leigh doesn't even get a title, if he'd been made a 'Sir' she'd have become 'Lady Lawson'

[quote]Wasn't "dame" actually a derogatory word for women in the past?

Only in the US, and not derogatory so much as slang/casual.

There ain't nothin' like a dame!

There are different awards and levels of rank. You don't have to be residing in the UK.

I read Michael Palin's diaries from the Monty Python years, thinking he was the nice one, but he does come off as arrogant and quite full of himself on more than one occasion. His callous disregard for adoring fans is very embarrassing to read.

I saw her in "My One and Only".

Couldn't sing, act or dance much, but somehow she made it all work. She was captivating.

I went back to see it again.

[quote] Couldn't sing, act or dance much, but somehow she made it all work.

So she was like Ruby Keeler or the 1980s?

*of the 1980s

Love that Twiggy wore a pantsuit.

This honours bullshit has to stop. It has been discredited since at least Lloyd George.

R33, I prefer "doll"

"I never say 'dame'. I only say 'doll' or 'dish'."

Re Maundy Gregory (1877 – 1941) : "Gregory is an LGBTQ history icon."

[quote]So she was like Ruby Keeler or the 1980s?

Well, Frank Rich who gave the show a rave had this to say:

"Most of what Twiggy does is fetchingly odd. Not quite an accomplished actress, singer or dancer and not quite beautiful, she has a striking, slinky presence and vulnerable, little-lost-flapper look that is instantly winning."