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...I could see Edna was the work of genius but couldn’t quite laugh. Maybe it was that the morphing of the familiar man with his floppy dark hair into the croaking, gladioli-throwing Edna was too much....
...“Bluey didn’t land out of nowhere,” says Oliver-Taylor. “She was built on the back of 70 to 100 shows.”...
...Edna Lewis’s books give me succour and direction: she got people to respect soul food. And Mashama Bailey inspires me....
...As a high school student, she wrote to the poet Edna St Vincent Millay, initiating a lasting friendship. Five years later, she met her future partner, the photographer Molly Malone Cook....
...In London she worked in restaurants with devoted followings — St John, Moro and the Anchor and Hope in Waterloo — before becoming a food stylist for Jamie Oliver....
...Australia gave us Dame Edna Everage and Paul Hogan (which is not much, really, but I did not want to leave them out and hurt their feelings)....
...Dodger , by Terry Pratchett, Doubleday, RRP£18.99 Pratchett rejigs Oliver Twist in this tale of a “tosher”, a boy who scours London’s sewers for small treasures....
...For women, the most directional shapes are cat’s eye frames, small round glasses and kooky, quirky glasses in the Dame Edna, Peggy Guggenheim mould....
...Westfield is a lot better, but maybe people will come here because of the Jamie Oliver restaurant.”...
...The simple decency of the main character, Oliver, shines through. James Lovegrove...
...Our coffees downed, we peered briefly into Grossi Florentino, the long-established Italian restaurantnow run with panache by chef Guy Grossi (Dame Edna Everage regularly orders “a well-hung chop” in the...
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