Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Amateur championship, a cockney caddie became something of a folk hero for hurling Stadler's clubs back at him and forcing him to take a replacement from the gallery. With a clarion flourish, the Royal and Ancient publicly commended the wronged caddie on his principles and paid him for a full round. Still, Stadler is no McEnroe. Off the course, he is too nice a guy. It is natural that the other players call him "Walrus," since it is impossible to look at him and think of anything else. When he speaks, his mustache bobs up and down...
DIED. Stanley Holloway, 91, ingratiating British actor, singer and comedian who captured the heart of Broadway with his performance as the cockney garbage man, Alfred P. Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, a role he reprised in the movie version; in Sussex, England...
...other problems with this Fair Lady. Eliza is played by Nancy Ringham, the American understudy who was suddenly called in when Cheryl Kennedy, an English actress, was forced out by illness. Ringham has both a pretty face and an attractive voice, but she does not make a good Cockney, or make a very convincing climb up the slippery slopes of the English language. More important, she does not have anything like the fire, the almost feral drive of a good Eliza. Not only was Higgins a great teacher; Eliza was also a great pupil. That "squashed cabbage leaf he picked...
...with blood in ancient Rome if "colored" immigration in Britain was not reduced. A Scottish M.P., Willie Hamilton, who thinks the Crown an expensive anachronism and Princesses Margaret and Anne in particular to be parasites, got a long and polite hearing from Ted Koppel on ABC. Glimpses of cockney women cooing about Lady Di's charms were offset by skinheads as indifferent to the wedding as to anything else. ABC intermixed its prattle of gowns and rehearsals with pictures of grim unemployment lines in what it captioned "The Other Britain." Britain's other big story...
...write. Art fades into reality during the first day of filming (in Ireland, with 300 Irish extras as American and British soldiers), and chaos erupts. The film troops, sleeping in tents, are restless, and there is a rumor that Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops...