"Beauty's where you find it..." - Madonna

Monday 31 December 2007

Dutch Queen's Speech!

HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Christmas Message 2007

Saturday 29 December 2007

HM Queen Elizabeth II first TELEVISED Christmas Broadcast 1957

Have a look at this and see whether you agree that the values she urges we should hang on to are more desperately to be hung on to than ever before... because I think she had her finger right on the pulse...

As you watch, remember this went out LIVE. And I think despite what some critics have said, she's a pretty good orator.


Thursday 27 December 2007

Ronnie Barker Obituary

Ronnie Barker (Star of Porridge and one half of the Two Ronnies) was my favourite comedian of all...

This was taken from Sky News 3 Oct 2005... Note the appearance of Christopher Biggins 2007 I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Queen of the Jungle ...

Wednesday 26 December 2007

HM the Queen's Christmas Message 2007

This is the full official Queen's speech... for all you who missed it first time round at 3pm GMT, 25/12/7

Monday 10 December 2007

HM The Queen: Annie Liebowitz Scandal from BBC "Monarchy" documentary....

Yes! THIS is the famous Annie Liebowitz "take off your crown, ma'am" scandal clip!!!

Saturday 8 December 2007

Garland - Merman - Streisand: No Business Like Showbusiness (Judy Garland Show)

No it's not all a bit tu-ette (whatever you call a 3-person duette)... this is actually a fascinating clip of weekend-night American television from the 1960s...

Tuesday 4 December 2007

A Poke Round Akihito, Emperor of Japan's Back Garden...

What a garden!

King Bhumibol, Great King of Thailand

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HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

Life profile of another queen (not Elizabeth II (better known as Ma'am))

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

"Troonrede Koningin Beatrix Nederland 2007," it says here...

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf: Masterclass, Edinburgh, 1980

Schwarzkopf was one of the foremost sopranos of the 20th century...

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Wednesday 28 November 2007

Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra sing Ave Maria on Celebrity Ready Steady Cook ...

These are the two best female classical voices of the coming generation.

Katherine Jenkins's mezzo-soprano tones are amazingly smooth; she's one of the finest classical singers I've ever heard and Hayley Westenra's soprano has blazing fire - a vocal diamond.


Wednesday 21 November 2007

Amy Winehouse "Doing Coke" at Concert ... Right on Stage!

See the amount of white powder that's covering the end of her nose then falls off!

Monday 19 November 2007

Monday 12 November 2007

King of Spain tells Venezuela's Chavez to "Shut up!"

International news story of the day: at a pan-espanol summit Venezuela's premier Hugo Chavez repeatedly called King Carlos of Spain a "fascist"... the King of Spain responded by telling the Venezuelan premier to "shut up!"

Tuesday 6 November 2007

French and Saunders: Jordan and Jodie

Jordan and Peter (Andre) are supposed to have "hit" American screens on "E!" (I hope her 36GG boobs didn't explode) with their vulgar home documentary. Jodie Marsh is a similar "star" of British satellite television and the tabloid press...


1. Mortgage


2. Potato


3. Optician

Saturday 3 November 2007

Leonard Rossiter, Joan Collins: Cinzano Ads

Until Dynasty came along, these annual ads were the highpoint of Ms Collins's career...

At Home With Jackie Collins!

Wednesday 31 October 2007

Joan Collins on Footballers' Wives

At least it was more followable than the dreaded Die-nasty!

Dynasty - Joan Collins in Fur

Surely Dynasty was the slowest moving, most incomprehensible soap of all time. Can YOU remember a single plotline? Well then!!

The ONLY good things about it were the interiors (let's face it, the Ewings were meant to be billionaires yet lived like virtual peasants. At least the Carringtons/Colbys didn't) ... and, of course, Britain's best:~ JOAN COLLINS!!

Those were the days!

And just to add insult to injury, this clip has zero sound!


Tuesday 2 October 2007

Sunday 30 September 2007

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie Vacuuming Up Dead Bodies

They are interns at a mortuary and the dead bodies come ready-cremated

Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie working in Burger King

From The Simple Life: Interns (only of those series I actually found watchable...)

Monday 24 September 2007

Miracle of Love - River Phoenix

if you're a teenage girl you'll REALLY like this... otherwise it makes a change from Annie Lennox and Dave Stewarts' dull visages!

Britney Spears acting "stoned"...

... Judge for yourself.

Who filmed this thang? And why on earth did she sit there and just let him??

Notice the guy's voice; dripping with sleaze ...

Ugh.


Friday 21 September 2007

Madonna Gym On Fire

How exciting...

Thursday 20 September 2007

Wednesday 19 September 2007

Whitney Houston Bobby Brown - Mad TV

It's a spoof but doesn't it look like her!

Whitney Houston interviewed on Prime Time 2002 by Diane Sawyer

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Whitney Houston Getting Papped

Whitney Houston "Kiss My Ass!"

From some Soup programme on American TV... extracted from Bobby Brown's eponymous reality show Being Bobby Brown...

Britney Bitch revisited

... at first I thought she'd really improved her performing skills... then I put on my reading glasses and realized it was someone else... ho-hummm

Tuesday 18 September 2007

COMPARISON; Kelly Clarkson/Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This

COME ON IS THERE ANY COMPARISON??!

KELLY CLARKSON'S VERSION:



LEONA'S VERSION:



ALL THIS WAS SET UP BY REMARKS AT THIS DEFUNCT WEBSITE (THE YOUTUBE SCREENS NO LONGER WORKING....)

Sunday 16 September 2007

Britney Spears MTV (America) Music 2007 Awards

THIS is that famously "bad" performance.

I've seen worse.

Video quality was best I could find among several versions of this.


Wednesday 12 September 2007

Introduction to Mika (in German)

can't understand it? Then LEARN! It only takes a 20,000 word vocabulary to be a mother-tongue level speaker.

Introduction to Leona Lewis

WATCH OUT! If you never heard of this gal. Winner of British TV's 2006 The X-Factor, Leona is a star in the making

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Sunday 9 September 2007

Kerry Katona's Titanic Boob!

Click here for full News of the World jizz

Saturday 8 September 2007

Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand present Billy Joel with 1981 Grammy

For best rock vocal performance (male)... doesn't he look annoyed in those long, long moments the camera settles on him before the prize is rightly announced!?!

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Bananarama - Venus (making of)

Listen to that 1st voice over.. doesn't she sound 13!

Wednesday 29 August 2007

Streisand Moonfall Takes 1 & 2 Broadway Album Sessions

Take 1 (sorry if the sound is crap in this one)



Take 2

Barbra Streisand "Some of her best high notes 1961 onwards ..."

Barbra Streisand - All I Ask Of You

Take 1
This is a fascinating glimpse of a record actually being made... not something you get to see that often in such close-up detail as this...





(take 2; 1988)

If this had come out today I'd be saying, Who sneaked in the camera phone?? But it's 20 years old... so ... WHO SNEAKED IN THE CAMCORDER??!¬!??!?!

Monday 27 August 2007

Streisand: Making her Broadway Album

These screens no longer play. Barbra Streisand: Making the Broadway Album is now posted on 22 June 2010. To view, click here.

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Thursday 9 August 2007

Sunday 5 August 2007

Madonna MTV Competition

OK I slipped this from M-filer's blog. As he points out, she IS a good comic actress. But has rarely been given the chance to shine... hey-hum. That is life I s'pose...

Cannes Fash - Vogue TV

Tuesday 31 July 2007

Monday 16 July 2007

Madonna Bootleg Vid

Madonna singing Causin' A Commotion etc

I'm putting this in with "celebrity" rather than "music" as the quality's so low, only hardcore fans will be interested in this one

especially as it shows off what a truly "talented" singer she actually is ...

Friday 13 July 2007

Her Majesty The Queen's Supposed "Tantrum" at American Photographer Annie Liebowitz...

Here's last night's BBC News report of the same.

(As originally reported in The Sun newspaper...)

Saturday 7 July 2007

David Beckham & England Football Team Bavaria 2006 Pepsi Commercial

Bavaria 2006 Pepsi Ad Featuring David Beckham and English Football Team

Wednesday 4 July 2007

Madonna Erotica

Am I alone in finding this video rather creepy and the overall tone not only sinister but pretty depraved..?

Her message to "her public" seems to be I am sophisticated but you lot aren't so I'm going to teach you about something you know very little, if anything, about. When actually we all do know about S&M and know we don't like it!

Some of the shots make her look really good. But the overall shadowiness I find quite spooky. Not "erotic" at all.

And the words of her song "erotic, erotic ~ put your hands all over my body" ~ basically a very teenage expression of sentiments clash with the rest of her purportedly sophisicated song... "I don't think you know what pain is; I don't think you've gone that way" ... etc.

I'd be intrigued to hear anybody else's critique of this vid.




I put this here rather than in my musical collection as the musical interest to this is minimal. It's with this video that Madonna's career took a nosedive in the early 1990s. She seems to be sneering at her public: if you're not into all this you're bourgeois and boring. Actually the three fingers were pointing right back because we'd all got bored of her!

Sunday 24 June 2007

Madonna and Guy ~ Brit Awards Acceptance Speech 2001

Madonna and Guy

Madonna Talks to Daughter

This is the real them

Madonna Pepsi Commercial: News at Ten

Anchor: Carol Barnes

Pepsi's Commercial for their 1989 Madonna Commercial

They had no idea ...

Madonna 1989 Pepsi Commercial

This is the one that she got $5 million for and famously had to give the money back (or didn't give it back, depending on which version you believe) following the Like a Prayer video furore:

Michael Jackson 1980s Pepsi Commercial

Look at that dated old tin-can!!

They wouldn't put blond little boys in a Michael Jackson ad now either, would they?

Michael Jackson Bizarre Shopping Trip

Excessive fame and an excessive desire for privacy just do not mix. As seen here (and this must be seen to be believed~!)

Michael Jackson Returns Home

To his childhood home in Gary, Indiana, USA

Ordinary Guy Randomly Famous "Director" From Youtube!!

Ordinary Northern Irish bod. Wakes up one morning bathed in a golden light.... yes the transcendental 15 seconds of his fame has struck ... all thanks to a video he "directed" on Youtube ... here he explains how!

Thursday 21 June 2007

Madonna Letterman 1994 Scandalous Interview

Here's the famous/infamous David Letterman interview from the early 90s.

I've always thought of Madonna as pretty much nondrinking, nonsubstance-abusing kinda gal. Suddenly it hit me rewatching this today: she is drunk. Listen to her voice. The normal Madonna has a pretty thin almost nasal tone; this voice, however, is relaxed and projecting, she's speaking from her diaphragm. I'm telling you, she's been drinking. And that explains pretty much everything here.

What shocks me most is how much like Sarah Jessica Parker's ugly sister she looks in this (21 minutes long) broadcast ...

Madonna - Elizabeth Taylor Birthday Speech

Elizabeth Taylor 1978 TV Interview

This is from Dinah Shaw's show in 1978. Liz Taylor's (then) new movie A Little Night Music had just come out. They speak holding "telephones" because it was thought an audience at the time would not understand how, due to satellite link-up, actress and interviewer could be speaking "live" and yet not appear in the same shot

Kate Moss in Pete Doherty's "Nuts" Video

This is the one everyone's talking about today:

You saw it here first.

Pete Doherty and Kate Moss "Crack Love"

Kate Moss Doing Cocaine

This is same as below only with musical background

Kate Moss Doing Cocaine

This from Italian TV

Kate Moss Vanity Fair 2006 Shoot

Vanity Fair September 2006

Beyonce Mobbed

Pete Doherty Tribute 1

Pete Doherty Tribute 2

Pete Doherty Tribute 3

Tribute to Kate Moss 3

"3 of 3" ... commences with one of those old Calvin Klein commercials:

Tribute to Kate Moss 2

"2 of 3" :: includes Elvive shampoo commercial. Etc ...

Tribute to Kate Moss 1

"1 of 3"

Beth Ditto interviews Yo Majesty

for xlr8r tv

Kate Moss Paparazzi at London Home

Wednesday 20 June 2007

Drew Barrymore Workout Spoof

Vulgarized from TalkToMatt.blogspot

This is quite pathetic and entertaining at the same time. Pathetically entertaining, you might say ...

Liz Hurley "Violated 'Hindu Law'"

Pam Anderson & Liz Hurley - New Best Friends

Wow they were even swopping clothes. Or even forgot to put the right ones on after their lavatory cubicle "action" ~~ well that's what the average FHM reader wants to believe. Come on have a look:

Pamela Anderson - Yasmin Bleeth

This comes from Germany and that's all I'm saying!

Pamela Anderson - anti-KFC Cruelty Campaign



Kylie Minogue Paparazzi

Kylie being papped on a beautiful London day:

Don't they keep a respectful distance? Not like the LA paps. Wow!

Paparazzi ET

Why do American presenters talk to us like we're mentally retarded? Is it because they're mentally retarded?

Harking back to the very height of the 1980s...

Paparazzi were already getting out of control back then!

Take a look at this:!

Madonna Gets a Parking Ticket

O how bloody exciting.

And "good morning Mrs Richie"~ sarcasm drips like venom from a cobra's fangs ...

Madonna London Paparazzi

Wow the flashes, man!

Being London, of course, her "hubby" Guy Richie also features:

Madonna Bruised by Paparazzi

2007 footage. Of a bruise on Madonna's cheek. Oh dear.

Madonna & Sugar Ray Paparazzi

Who the hell is Sugar Ray? Or his band?... help me someone... uh..?? hh....

O man, and we have the "I'm talking to you like you're retarded" American voice-over once again.

OK the guy's name is Mark McGrath (has anybody anywhere actually heard of this person?, because he's not famous in this centre of the universe) and in this clip he's seriously losing it. Giving everything he shouldn't and nothing that he should. I.e. squaring up to this guy for a fight he knows cannot happen... not without squelamious legal repercussions and the paps basically winning.

Some little boys never grow up.

Madonna Paparazzi

Extract from Paparazzi documentary on Channel 4.

This shows two guys staking out Madonna in the English countryside.

David Beckham - Soccer Interview

David Beckham - Adidas Interview

David Beckham - "Slide Show"

OK L.A. this is the guy who's coming to "skipper" your soccer team:

David Beckham Compilation

He can kick footballs in a banana shape:

David Beckham Adidas Commercial

"Nothing is impossible". No David. They even lowered your voice by nearly an octave for this ad:

Little And & Dec Interview Victoria Beckham

Man! She comes over so much nicer in the flesh (so to speak) than in those moody paparazzi shots the UK papers are full of ...

Ali G Interviews David & Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham

This was a very famous piece on British TV:

Extracted from a Comic Relief telethon.

If you don't know Ali G
, his voice is the accent most London schoolkids talk in these days. So imagine an entire busload of that piling on as you mind your own business at 4:20pm. Ukk!

Tuesday 19 June 2007

Lindsay Lohan Avoiding Paparazzi

Lindsay Lohan Drunk Driving Video

Well that's what it's billed as. I saw the first 30 secs and no-one appears to be drunk let alone driving ...

Lindsay Lohan - Photomontage

Her life's story in pictures

Lindsay Lohan Slags Off Paris

Appears to call her something beginning with C and rhyming with "blunt" ...

Paris Gonna Jail - Conner Brothers

Apocalypse Paris!

Apocalypse actually means "revelation" and the only thing Paris has "revealed" is her snatch. Come on!

One family even sailed a plane overhead trailing a banner, "We love you Paris from the Darling Family"~~ they were either v rich or v stupid ...

Isn't 2700 sq ft rather pokey for an LA home?

Paris Released? Or Punished All Over Again?

An extract from her famous jail story, mid-way through

Paris Hilton - Nicole Richie - Jealousy!

The story of their faltering friendship

Conan - Paris Hilton is in Jail!

Mega applause!

Paris Hilton - Jimmy Fallon Interview

Paris Hilton - Nothing in This World

This is Paris's music video. Actually her singing's better than I expected ...

Jordan (Katie Price)'s "First Interview"

Katie Price (as she now likes to be called) is currently the scourge of America with her vulgar documentary revealing her silicone life with Aussie ex pop star Peter Andre.

This is her before the implants.

Boy George Being Punished

We all love to see the rich and famous being publicly humiliated (or "humbled" as the judge supposedly would prefer it).

Boy George got caught with thirteen bags of cocaine in his New York "residence" and somehow got off with community service ..?

Only in America!

Boy George Loses Temper

Called a "batty boy" !!

Note how the clipboard-holding nobodies try not to cower too much in his aura of rage.

Diana and the Paps

Princess Diana was without a shadow of a doubt the most photographed woman of her time.

Narrated by Andrew Morton (author of Diana Her True Story)

Here's a short documentary about her "relationship" with the paparazzi.

Paris Hilton - Britney Spears - Lindsay Lohan "Action"

No it's not rude!

Imagine leaving a party and getting all this though. Every time!

Man those girls must be patient. I'm not surprised some of the "beefier" celebrities sock 'em one every now and then. I'm just amazed it doesn't happen more often!

Notice the paps' pathetic attempt to insinuate themselves with the girls by "helping" them locate their car. When really they're just after nude crotch shots all along~~it's all there!

Naomi Campbell Japanese Gameshow

Now this is bizarre. Naomi Campbell (and she's not on stilts) takes part in a "remember the Japanese word" game on one of their famous gameshows ...

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