tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post608528767247137199..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: Carry on specialisingTim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-82457733173457393722010-09-21T11:57:01.552+01:002010-09-21T11:57:01.552+01:00Oh no - Price & Hilton as this season's li...Oh no - Price & Hilton as this season's line in Ustinov and Mortimer. Time to drink the poison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-17489373212729086702010-09-20T12:43:11.173+01:002010-09-20T12:43:11.173+01:00I thought The Pamphleteer was the best idea ever w...I thought The Pamphleteer was the best idea ever when I started it, but then I realised that trying to get bloggers to write stuff when there is no money involved is like trying to put a dozen greased weasels into a sack.LChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796019564156060962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-43310443505023796452010-09-19T13:23:50.128+01:002010-09-19T13:23:50.128+01:00True, Clair. It’s interesting watching KW in some ...True, Clair. It’s interesting watching KW in some of the very early Carry Ons – the persona is there, but he’s still acting, not just being the KENNETH WILLIAMS EXPERIENCE. (His best role was on Jackanory, IMHO.)<br /><br />Good point, Madame: his real skill in later years was as a performance, not as a performer.<br /><br />Agree with both Laura and Steerforth about SF’s over-exposure; if there were more Ustinovs and Welleses about to take up the burden, perhaps he’d be less visible.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-3665164661142783052010-09-19T11:17:00.625+01:002010-09-19T11:17:00.625+01:00Couldn't agree more (a superb article, by the ...Couldn't agree more (a superb article, by the way). <br /><br />Like Laura, I find Fry less endearing than I used to, but I'm measuring the man by his own standards. Compared to most people, he is a Colossus.<br /><br />I'd also add Diana Rigg, John Sergeant and George Melly to the list.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-35733149718288656892010-09-19T09:06:06.846+01:002010-09-19T09:06:06.846+01:00Quentin Crisp also made a talent out of being hims...Quentin Crisp also made a talent out of being himself 'When you know what your style is, then you will know who you are.'<br /><br />But a sublimely talented and amusing creature at being himself, just like Kenneth Williams. <br /><br />Katie Price and Coleen Rooney et all, do not even have a personality of that ilk going for them.<br /><br />And I'm afraid I find Stephen Fry a bit of a yawn these days. Just too overexposed.The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-25964650195115217332010-09-18T19:37:17.382+01:002010-09-18T19:37:17.382+01:00I think it's one of the many reasons why I rar...I think it's one of the many reasons why I rarely watch TV these days. No-one says anything, it's just an extended infomercial. But KW's talent was to sound interesting saying nothing. Being superb at nothing is a talent KP and PH can only aspire to.Madame DeFargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172239340844485940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-32585351612303787972010-09-18T13:48:09.087+01:002010-09-18T13:48:09.087+01:00I think Williams, out of neccessity, made a talent...I think Williams, out of neccessity, made a talent of being himself, but then so did Orson Welles at the end of his career; both of them largely unemployable as actors because their personalities had totally subsumed any believability they had.<br /><br />I also wonder if Katie Price would have been in the Carry Ons if they were still around now.Clairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914896847679973163noreply@blogger.com