Hints and tips:
...The purpose of the call transpired to be a warning from Edna Healey to Elspeth Howe to have the kitchen refitted before moving in....
...The first is about his mother, Edna, written in 1986, five years after her death. “I just missed her,” he says....
...Undoubtedly they had come to enjoy Dame Edna’s shrill soliloquy and were obliged to sit through the fescennine outpourings and copious expectorations of Sir Les Patterson....
...His shrinking horizons are somewhat exaggerated: this year he has been in New Zealand filming Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit, in which he plays the king of the goblins....
...… Today, there are no fewer than 40 tamale establishments in the Mississippi Delta proper, as well as two in Natchez and one each in Jackson and Lumberton....
...The film’s first half is not for Aunt Edna. But Edna, regrettably, will storm back for the last part, in which a gooey moralising banishes the mirth and installs the message....
...It will make even shorter work of Aunt Edna: she will need a lifetime’s supply of smelling salts in the space of 100 minutes....
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