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Re: Miss Understood's Thailand 2003!
In high school I was physically forced out of my seat by other students when I refused to stand for the Pledge. I was told to leave if I didn't like it here... and I was BORN here! We allegedly have all these freedoms, but people rarely consider USING them, and when you try, you're punished for it. I'm killing time in the Tokyo airport on the way home. Se y'all soon
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
I know I am notorious for being severely optimistic and sweet when I see personal reports of new and fabulous ideas and trends, but I now I see no other course of comment, save for the negative. Does the New York Times hire high school reporter wannabes now? The writing is so bad I can't even concentrate on naysaying the club full of South American DJs who are playing house while the uninvited patrons lounge with strangers on brown plexiglass. Or whatever it said.
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Re: Displaced Radical Faeries
Located on Short Mountain Tenn. in a pre-civil war Barn, The Goat Boutique is the mountains most exclusive shopping experience. Getting its name from the adjacency to the lovely Goat pen and all its noisy inhabitance, the Goat Boutique is open 24 hours a day. Once entering the lavish 3"x 3" hole in the wall one is overwelmed with the vast collections of couture from around the world. Walking through the straw carpet one can't help pulling out house dresses from NJ, tutu's from high school...
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Re: Lux and Ivy
Ahhh thanks for that..... sad... thought he really was charismatic... i once went round to a pals house in Liverpool(i was around 13 and in my school uniform)... and Bryan, Lux and Ivy where there... it was a huge turning point for me, just meeting them all for this fleeting moment. (FYI side note.. my pals flat mate at the time was Wayne Hussey ex Dead of Alive/ Misson UK) they had a big influence yet were not very recognized i think... ahhh poor lamb Bryan.
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Re: boy george
I had posted this in the Tea Room, but thought it was worth repeating here: ------------- Satori - Middle School, theme - "Dress as your favorite pop star(s)." Since I wasn't going to pull off "Midnight Star" I wore my mom's silk oriental shirt with big baggy tuxedo pants and a big bright hat with a bunch of colored beads hanging off the brim. A 13 year-old's attempt at Boy George. My mother did my make-up and sent me off to the dance. I was approached by one of the Judges and asked what...
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Re: boy george
Boy George was one of my biggest heroes as a teen. As a child I had already seen Elton John, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, KISS and so on, but Boy George was My Generation and hit the scene as a huge star when I was in high school. I was so captivated, it was like he had beat all the odds and was being celebrated for being a freak. Of course his whole androgyny slant was a huge inspiration to me as an artist. But he was not just an image. He had real talent, and the band had serious musical...
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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Well, summer is ending, and school is back in session. Thanks to the encroaching sprawl of NYU all over town, we all have witness to the invasion of these spotted cherubic youths, and yes there is even a dorm for them down here in Tribeca, so I see them on the street, in the deli buying beer, and waiting for the NYU bus to take them up to the "campus." What saddens me is I think about when I first visited NYC 20 years ago and how glorious (and dirty) the city was, and then the nightclubs...
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Re: International Chrysis
Honestly..when I was MUCH YOUNGER and had just started performing in clubs and attempting to get paid, I noticed early on that Chrysis ALWAYS got her coins promptly. So whenever we shared a stage, I would run to the manager or office in her wake, and always got my money too! My favorite thing about Chrysis is that she died at an absolute peak in her life, when she had finally made it to some big expensive theater on Broadway to top acclaim, pay, and benefits (including the health insurance...
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Re: BEWITCHED
God rest Elizabeth Montgomery since she died of rectal cancer in 1995, but Barbara Eden is still around. I think both of these shows caught the zeitgiest of the time in different ways and this accounts for their success and longer life in rerun and cableland. But clearly, their hold of millions of people's interest into the 21st century is a credit to our fascination with the convergence of mortal meeting magic. Though Bewitched was first on television, it was based on the two movies Bell,...
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Re: Party Monster - Michael Alig
I saw it today. I don't know what to think. It definitely wasn't bad, but I can't say it was good either. I thought MacAuley Culkin was irritating, if it was just Seth Green it would've been a much better movie. For those who know the story (or lived it), the only reason to see the movie was for the recreations of the club scene "back in the day", but as Z&S pointed out above those scenes are pretty much quick camera pans across a dark room with an indistinguishable glimpse at a few...
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Re: RIP, VIP
John Ritter is dead at 55. As with the recent death of Gregory Hines, I was shocked to hear about this one. A versatile and funny talent.
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Despite the attention he has willingly or unwillingly gotten, I for one love his books. I compare him on some levels with Hubert Selby Jr, for his knack of depicting the lowest depths of humanity with some sort of beauty. Personally I have witnessed similar creatures growing up in the midwest with southern roots and alot of white trash on one side of my family. I am able to "smell" the carpeting in the motel rooms and feel the grimy toys he drags from new home to new home. Sarah to me was a...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Madonna's little monster << Lourdes is the new Wednesday Adams Lourdes Ciccone is turning into a proper little madam. At a recent Top Of The Pops appearance, she demanded a diet coke. When a crew member brought her a normal coke, the seven-year-old's reply was: "I said diet, asshole." (FYI: Lourdes attends a spiritual school which teaches that there is "the good you" and "the bad you".)
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
Glam baby, tell me a story. Ya, you see that alot in bad poetry/slams. Spilled guts have no literary value in themselves; when the poem does not resolve, it's just more goo. Michael, you erased your post. Negatively tinged though it was (that you don't believe you're creative) you are magnetized by the context of the creative and do add to the setting! That is worth alot. Don't malign yourself, neither for having had a decent childhood. I know first hand the awfulness of having a...
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Re: JC Leroy (as Terence put it)
6 train, uptown this a.m.: I'd literally just finished reading the last word of the heart/deceitful chapter, "foolishness is bound in the heart of a child," when I stood up to exit the train and a man beside me shoved past by putting his New York Post in my face. The headline: "PASTOR: I GAVE BOYS 'HOLY SPANKINGS'" I'd forgotten how upsetting this particular section of the book is. So fucking fucked. And then to see this... Here's the clip. Spooky. It's right out of JTL. web page November 3,...
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Re: Internet Radio
I have been part of an adult comedy network called No Holds Barred Radio for about 4 years now (in some way shape or form) and for the past year have been doing my own weekly 2 hour talk show called "Rye Seronie University - The only school where Astroglide™ is a school supply" If you want to discuss the idea I know what you need, and I have connections to cheap server hosts. I am the Queen Bitch of the Multi-verse!
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
And the battle comes at last to our soil. I've always liked politicians like Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Barney Frank, but they've been in office for years and we've seen little action. Now they look like tired old buffalos next to the handful of mavericks like Mayor Newsome, Mayor Daley and New Paltz, New York's mayor, Jason West, who boldly go where no one has gone before. Rock on!
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Re: DAVID BOWIE
Well said Stacy!!! Bowie was HUGE influence on so many people... and in my 'hood he paved the way for everyone to suddenly announce they were bisexual!!!! LOL I was laughing about just this recently with my ole theatre school mates "remember when all the lads in our class wore eye lines and were announcing that they were bisexual like Bowie" we were all into Roxy and Bowie.. the first lad i ever made out with had the full Young Americans look and eye lines (he's a raving queen now of...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Old OLD school: Preperation H under the eyes..leave to dry...wear an outfit for a twenty-year old.
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Re: Swept Away part 2
MORE BREAKING NEWS Madonna's university challenge THERE are a few challenges left for MADONNA – and a university degree is one of them. Having pretty much conquered the world of pop, Madge is now set to read Literature at Oxford University. The Material Girl is to further her knowledge of British literary greats such as Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen by studying for a Bachelor of Arts qualification. But undergraduates should not get too excited about sharing halls of residence...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
let me geek out for a second and correct the record... she was 26 when her pop career "took off" I believe. she was 19 when she ditched school and ran off to be a star! woo hoo! Jimmy I love her so much too!
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
RIP Jacques Derrida, Father of Deconstructionism... This from the Film Forum newsletter, looks like a fascintating flick! One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of Deconstruction Jacques Derrida died last week in Paris at age 74. In tribute to his memory, Film Forum is presenting a 5-day return engagement of DERRIDA, the critically acclaimed documentary portrait by filmmakers Kirby Dick (SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Warning, mouthful ahead! I was so stunned by the post, and because it was so bloody long, I cut and pasted it, so I could read it at leisure. So... rather than hunt for the blinkin' page again (the posts are rapidly approaching the 300 mark,) here it is-- allegedly from "Potatoes" O'Brien to her readers: ----- Reviewer: Anne Obrien Rice (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews "Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In fact, the entire development of my career has...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Meanwhile, back in Texas... Health Textbooks in Texas to Change Wording About Marriage Published: November 6, 2004 "The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high schools and middle schools on Friday after the publishers agreed to change wordings in the texts to depict marriage strictly as the union of a man and a woman. "The decision involves two of the biggest textbook publishers and is another example of Texas' exerting its market influence as the nation's...
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Re: Puritan Watch
This is a long two page article from the NYTIMES but it is spot on target regarding some aspects of the mass delusion being incubated by the Little Bush Idiocracy. And it took some backbone for Rich to write it. Curious as hell though that the Times put it in the Arts section and perhaps it is a little delusionally symptomatic that an article about censorship in the news is written about for a cultural context. The main point though, that the political administration in power proclaims that...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
Hattie if you don't write that G.D. book I'm going to kill you! (Oh wait, that's no good is it?) I forgot about you at The Empire Diner. And Monica Lynch... I had no idea. When I moved to New York (to go to Art School) I was working at FOOD restaurant on Prince & Wooster Streets. (One of the three restaurants in the newly named SOHO district. There was The Broome Street Bar, The Spring Street Bar and Food on Price Street). We also used to feed artists. It was cool. Unlike you though...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
And this from Musto: (FYI the "worst club" is our favorite, CAIN) Musto Rules!
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Re: JT LeRoy
I'd be interested in how the film turns out. Recently a close friend of mine was given the book for his birthday. He read a few of the stories and declared it, "horrible. the kind of thing I might've liked in high school." I was stunned, but to each his own I guess.
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Re: Fashion, Sweetie
Wow, have I ever been out of the loop. Here's an alleged trend that I have never - ever - heard of before, and what's more, I can't say that I've even noticed many (any?) of these gals around town. As a recovering goth, I'm appalled at my own ignorance. Where ARE they hiding in NYC? March 13, 2005 Gothic Lolitas: Demure vs. Dominatrix By LAURA M. HOLSON New York Times IT did not take long for Twinkle Lam to realize that she had a problem on her hands. For the past 10 months the 23-year-old...
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Re: Jonah Falcon
You know, I didn't realize that our little Jonah was such a big celebrity. I mean he told me he was but I guess I didn't believe it. I just read this article about him that was in Rolling Stone Magazine. Again, he told me about it but I never got around to actually reading it. It's pretty good. You go Jonah!
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Re: HARRY POTTER FETISH @ Utopia Parkway 3/26/05 (Pictures)
BIG thanks to the entire genius cast and everyone who worked so hard on this night - esp. Jorge and Cameleon for the fab decor. I'm still wearing my school scarf in the EV..people are bemused..
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
It is definitely true the sex possibilities were more varied, seven. Everything, that was "forbidden" in the first place, was lumped together into a very heady mixture that was certainly very libertine. Therefore, in Riverdale, where I grew up there was a park-- Van Cortlandt Park, one of the largest and wildest (terrain-wise) in the City. Along the western side ran Broadway, which at that point was more like a six lane highway than the commercial street we are familiar with downtown. This...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
In the early days of Jackie there was a gorgeous little Italian Brooklynese boy who found his way to jackie via an encounter I had had with him at The Vault. Worked as a mechanic and went to school. Had an amazing cock and loved getting blown. His kink however was fabulous. he was turned on by BIG hair-do's. He would get absolutely crazy asking about how long it took to do my hair and if it was one wig or two. He never wanted to touch my hair, but would stare at it transfixed while I blew...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Ah, yes, the formative years...Daddy, I think I was 19 when I started there. My first year out of high school and I stumble into Jackie's. My memories are still tied to that high school mind and you know what those memories are like: Jackie 60 seems like part of my childhood. Did you know, Kitty saw me auditioning at Clit Club and asked me to come to Jackie's? I couldn't even drink for the first couple of years (this was during the Guiliani club crackdown and Kitty even sniffed my soda...
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
"The Hasids" were VERY early Jackie RGs (regulars). They would come in and ask, "are any of my people here?" When it was time to leave, I would sneak them out the side door, first looking up and down the street for any of "their people". They stopped coming when a picture of them by Tina Paul appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. Its a genius picture with one of them covering his face. I'll try and find it. I had this fantasy of hiring a yellow school bus every week to shuffle back and forth...
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Re: ACT UP
I'm very grateful to have this forum to air my concerns and get feedback! (Thank you Johnny and Chi Chi). As for "ACT UP being past and erased" maybe it's something as simple as not *enough* time has gone by (so it isn't "officially recorded" yet, etc.) There were some academics at the Oral History screening, and one said transcripts from the ACT UP film are going into a new history book. Because really, the ACT UP hey day was *not* a "generation" ago. It's only been a few years! --Maybe...
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Re: ACT UP
Hmm... Sadly, I see your point, Seven. Definitely it is silly of me to think there could be a lecture or pamphlet or whatever saying, "if you're going to do this drug, you should know..." without the sponsor being accused of promoting drug use. (It's funny, too. Even my most distant acquaintances know I'm about as likely to promote drug use as your most conservative great great grandmother.) Sadly, though, I think maybe you're right that even if I'd worded it more intelligently, like "these...
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Re: Kenneth Anger
Lucifer, Arisen A quintessential San Francisco story, starring charismatic musician/murderer Bobby BeauSoleil* *with underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, cult leader Charles Manson, Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, and the Straight Satans motorcycle gang in supporting roles SF Weekly November 17, 2004 By Lessley Anderson Bobby BeauSoleil bounds into the visiting room at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute in Pendleton, Ore. His 5-foot-10-inch frame is thin, but he moves with a...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Lex, I agree with Bobby. The first couple o' chapters in Lasher will raise your eyebrows, to say the least, and make you love Mona. And, Bobby, I think I read Cry to Heaven and Feast of All Saints within days of each other after having found and finished Witching Hour. I must have been 15 or 16 and soooo angry that I had to wait for her to publish what happened to Rowan. Reading the other books certainly let me know that there was wide world that I could get into after high school. The funny...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
From the San Antonio Express-News: Katrina doesn't cancel Southern Decadence parade Web Posted: 09/05/2005 12:00 AM CDT Rod Davis Express-News Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS "” You know a city has legs when three or four dozen of them are parading down Bourbon Street "” some clad in tutus and grass skirts "” six days after the most damaging hurricane in American history. Revelers take part in the Southern Decadence parade in New Orleans' French Quarter. The parade celebrates the quirky side of the...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Had to post this! This first hand report from New Orleans last week was received today from a friend; it is so powerful and honest I think the members of this listserv will want to know this. Phil Olson Sept 5, 2005 Fwd by Phil Gasper: Two friends of mine--paramedics attending a conference--were trapped in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. This is their eyewitness report. PG Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences by Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New...
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Re: The Return Of TRIPPLE XXX!
Yesterday The NEW YORK OBSERVER published a feature encouraging gay men to seek out new places for public sex!! Here's an excerpt:
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
I haven't read Anne Rice since Servant of the Bones, but this sounds like it could be quite good. The Gospel According to Anne The queen of the occult has been gone awhile. What's Anne Rice been up to? Getting healthy, finding God"”and writing her most daring book yet. By David Gates Newsweek Oct. 31, 2005 issue - Sometimes Anne Rice won't leave her bedroom for days on end"”and neither would you. Glass doors open onto a terrace that looks over the red-tiled roofs of La Jolla, Calif., to the...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
Well, I finished it. (in about an hour) I liked it. Of course I love that period of herstory. It's really not that much of a stretch for her. The Veil Of Veronica", "Servant Of The Bones", "Memnoch The Devil" this is not really that different for her. I don't know what all the hub bub is about. It's not at all "preachy" It's a typical Anne Rice historical novel. It's not her best writing and not her worst. What she does REALLY well is bring the day to day world of first century Jews to life.
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Re: Anderson Cooper: "Outing" in the 21st Century
I prefer my riverdance to be classified as an "elfin gavotte" actually! Daddy left out a HUGE PART of my unending love for Anderson - which was his enormous heart during and after the whole Katrina debacle, especially with those so obviously suffering, and where animals were concerned. THAT was what made me say "he's too good to be true"...his sensitivity was beyond any straight man's I've ever experienced. Sorry, I KNOW some gay men have zero sensitivity, but AC reminds me of the truly...
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Re: Pete Burns -- Part 2
GREAT Article! ----- Inside the bizarre world of Pete Burns -- Jan 9 2006 PADDY SHENNAN on the weird and wonderful life of Big Brother's Scouse celebrity Paddy Shennan, Liverpool Echo ONCE seen never forgotten, Pete Burns used to walk around Liverpool wearing outrageous black PVC outfits, black contact lenses - and human bones in his hair. "Nobody was as wild as me. Some people used to laugh, but I knew one day I would show them all." This was the Dead or Alive frontman, now 46, talking to...
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Re: Puritan Watch
One public school district voted Monday night to begin offering a new bible class as part of its curriculum. The elective course is called "The Bible and its Influence." Board members voted six to one to approve the new class.
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Re: Wanted: Memories Of The Pyramid Club, 1981-1985
I remember all of you...well, most of you. And if Brian is Hatches then I have you to thank once again for letting me still come in after my father called you. I spent loads of time in the DJ booth...how come noone has yet to mention Ivan? ....and I spent time propped on the beer boxes next to the ice machine in the wait station, where Stephan named me "Queen of the May." I screamed when songs I liked came on. I mean high piercing screamed- like the girl in that "dont need this pressure"...
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Re: My own private East Village
On a lighter note ..... I've really come to love taking my Napoleon to the dog run at Tompkins Square Park. It relaxes me and my "fag child" lives for it. Once in a while I take him to other runs like Union Square, Washington Square and Stuyvesant Square, but Tompkins is our favorite, the closest thing to having a back yard. Being a dog daddy has brought me into contact with so many people right here in the EV hood that I'd never have met otherwise, and it gives me such pleasure to watch my...
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Re: Hattie Hathaway in Threepenny Opera
I dunno how I missed this post, except that on March 17th I was pushing my way through hordes of drunken people wearing green, making my way to rehearsal for this on 45th Street! My part is pretty small, but I am part of the chorus and do get to sing a bit in the finale-- which is what the "Opera" on the title is all about. I also have a rather hammy bit as one of Mr. Peachum's (played by the incredible Jim Dale) beggars which should please those familiar with my antics on the Jackie stage.