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T.E. Lawrence Larry Sanders Sanders of the River

Juan les Pins Pinetop Smith Harriet Beecher Stowe

Clifton Webb Webb Pierce Mildred Pierce

Wazir Mohammed Mohammed Ali Ali McGraw

Jan Garber Sammy Kaye Horace Heidt

Yvonne Printemps Suzanne Summers Jeanette Winterson

Floyd Bean Floyd Cramer Floyd O'Brien

Rigoletto Laughin' Louis Smiling Jack

Jack Valenti Rudolph Valentino Valentine Cunningham

Organ Morgan Butcher Beynon Evans the Death

Puff's Magic Dragon Buddy Weed Big Tea

Enoch Light Night Shyamalan Marjorie Morningstar

Harris Tweed Ian Paisley 'Tartan' of Tarascon (sorry!)

Nick Lucas Ukelele Ike Banjo Patterson

Marion Crane Norman Bates Mother!

Chemical Ali Ali Baba Baba Walwers

Though he doesn't mention the BBC specifically, he does have a real go at the Arts Council with its emphasis on upholding 'artistic standards' (i.e. Covent Garden, the big galleries etc) rather than promoting active involvement in music, painting etc. Cultural elitism is very much his target - he seems to have it in for Jeanette Winterson big time! I first came across him in a TV documentary based on an earlier book 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' where he charts how the cultural elite strove to distance itself from the growing literacy of the mass population by creating an increasingly obscure art world. Must read the book now. I haven't seen the TV prog, Bev - is his position that 'difficult' artistes like Picasso, Schoenberg, Beckett, Rothko, Corigliano, Bellow etc etc deliberately created their works in the hopes that virtually no one would get anything out of them?

The Prince of Wails Edward Saxe Coberg & Gotha Saxie Mansfield

Willie the Weeper Moaning Minnie Mr. Pitiful

Starchy Smiling Melvin Mickey Rodent

Moose the Mooche Jack the Bear The Man from Harlem

Jack Sheldon Paul Whiteman Izzy Friedman

Otis B. Driftwood Bourke B. Hickenlooper F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr

Nora Ballsoff Lorena Bobbitt Virginia Dentata

Head Case is one of the best things on at the moment. And it's no reflection on 'In Treatment' to say that it's a great antidote too. Also digging Party Down and Breaking Bad.