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Real Life Parallels
Jul. 31st, 2004 12:11 amscript:
INT. MUSIC HALL – LONDON – NIGHT – 1956
...Brian settles into a sliver of light and watches the rest of the performance with intensity.
Is it me or is Brian (Tommy) practicing rolling his eyes?
The wiggly, over-painted Singer is belting out a saucy number.
The Singer is the legendary Lindsay Kemp, dancer, actor, choreographer and theatre director, who, unfortunately, is often cited as a mere footnote for being David Bowie's mime teacher. The impish Kemp has portrayed Divine in his own acclaimed production of Flowers, based on Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers. He's danced Salome, portrayed Nijinksy, played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and worked with film directors Ken Russell and Derek Jarman. He has claimed to trace his own theatrical ancestry back to William Kemp who was in Shakespeare's company at the Globe Theatre as a clown, but that may be as fanciful as any of the many wild stories he weaves. My lies are simply ecstatic exaggerations. A lovely portrait of him in full makeup, looking a lot like Maxwell Demon, graces the main page of Mick Rock's photography site. An interesting overview of his career and how influential his work is, here.
INT. MUSIC HALL – LONDON – NIGHT – 1956
...Brian settles into a sliver of light and watches the rest of the performance with intensity.
Is it me or is Brian (Tommy) practicing rolling his eyes?
The wiggly, over-painted Singer is belting out a saucy number.
The Singer is the legendary Lindsay Kemp, dancer, actor, choreographer and theatre director, who, unfortunately, is often cited as a mere footnote for being David Bowie's mime teacher. The impish Kemp has portrayed Divine in his own acclaimed production of Flowers, based on Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers. He's danced Salome, portrayed Nijinksy, played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and worked with film directors Ken Russell and Derek Jarman. He has claimed to trace his own theatrical ancestry back to William Kemp who was in Shakespeare's company at the Globe Theatre as a clown, but that may be as fanciful as any of the many wild stories he weaves. My lies are simply ecstatic exaggerations. A lovely portrait of him in full makeup, looking a lot like Maxwell Demon, graces the main page of Mick Rock's photography site. An interesting overview of his career and how influential his work is, here.
