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REDHEAD HAD PRESS GOING APE
FOR WEEK BEGINNING 18 FEBRUARY 2008; PHOTO CAPTIONS AT END OF ITEM REDHEAD HAD PRESS GOING APE david ellis SHE was a redhead who had a private meeting with Prince Philip, metPrince Edward, sashayed with Elizabeth Taylor and Bo Derek, and hadthe press at her feet when she breakfasted with Bjorn Borg. And she had […]
TALL AND TAN, AND YOUNG AND LOVELY…
TALL AND TAN, AND YOUNG AND LOVELY… david ellis Forty something years ago she was the best known teen in the westernworld, the inspiration for a new-rage bossa nova-beat song thatovernight swept the charts from Lima to London, Chicago to Sydney… Yet despite millions singing along to the lyrics played over and againon radio and […]
TALL AND TAN, AND YOUNG AND LOVELY…
TALL AND TAN, AND YOUNG AND LOVELY… david ellis Forty something years ago she was the best known teen in the westernworld, the inspiration for a new-rage bossa nova-beat song thatovernight swept the charts from Lima to London, Chicago to Sydney… Yet despite millions singing along to the lyrics played over and againon radio and […]
NOT JUST ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
NOT JUST ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING (so has his hotel) david ellis JUST as stage announcer Al Dvorin boomed for years into his microphone“ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building” to dispersethe throngs hoping for one last encore, an Hawaii resort that The Kingmade as equally famous as himself, has now itself “left […]
NOT JUST ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
NOT JUST ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING (so has his hotel) david ellis JUST as stage announcer Al Dvorin boomed for years into his microphone“ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building” to dispersethe throngs hoping for one last encore, an Hawaii resort that The Kingmade as equally famous as himself, has now itself “left […]
ANYTHING BUT CACTUS ON THE TEQUILA ROUTE
ANYTHING BUT CACTUS ON THE TEQUILA ROUTE david ellis THERE’S probably no other drink done more to fire up wars andrevolutions, legends and folklore than tequila, Mexico’s indigenousfirewater that’s fuelled those in the firing line of improving theirlot since as far back as the early 1500s. And while once considered by the country’s former Spanish […]
ANYTHING BUT CACTUS ON THE TEQUILA ROUTE
ANYTHING BUT CACTUS ON THE TEQUILA ROUTE david ellis THERE’S probably no other drink done more to fire up wars andrevolutions, legends and folklore than tequila, Mexico’s indigenousfirewater that’s fuelled those in the firing line of improving theirlot since as far back as the early 1500s. And while once considered by the country’s former Spanish […]
RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER
FOR WEEK BEGINNING 26 NOVEMBER 2007; RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER david ellis The inventive Nicholas Roosevelt reckoned there had to be better waysof opening up the American inland than by staring at the rear-end of ahorse from a slow-rumbling buckboard, or even the new-fangled railwayhe’d heard about but had yet to reach his hometown […]
RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER
FOR WEEK BEGINNING 26 NOVEMBER 2007; RIVERBOATIN’ ON OL’ MAN RIVER david ellis The inventive Nicholas Roosevelt reckoned there had to be better waysof opening up the American inland than by staring at the rear-end of ahorse from a slow-rumbling buckboard, or even the new-fangled railwayhe’d heard about but had yet to reach his hometown […]
NEVER TOO MANY COOKS HERE
COLOURFUL markets entice the visitor to theCook Islands to part with a few spare dollars. David Ellis In the beginning, so legend tells us, there was Avaiki, the idyllic heaven from whence the first adventurers set forth to inhabit the islands that were to become the South Pacific. And, say those same legends, in the […]
