BAFTA Awards ceremony at the 69th edition this year (2016), was hosted by Stephen Fry on February 4th at the Royal Opera House in London. One of his comments stirred again the new trend of Politically Correctness around, and after he angrily replied on Twitter, he deleted his account. As a result, you won't be re-directed to that anymore, because the meta disappeared from his name: Had amazing time @ BAFTA's tonight x props to @stephenfry for hosting brilliantly & to all those diverse … [Read more...]
If This Would Have Been Art
I'm more and more unpleasantly impressed by the ultra en-vogue "artist" who Freddie Mercury or Queen inspired, called herself Lady "Gaga". I won't comment on her "message" who the great (mostly proper, less figurative) Stephen Fry understood, and not making a living from writing newspaper profiles, accepted to interview the "phenomenon", the "leader of a generation" of whom without shame adores, because, as he and his partner know, and her critics know as well, she is the voice of the ugly, the … [Read more...]
Blogger’s Block
“Blogger’s block” : Have you ever heard something more dumb? Why have you a blog in the first place, what do you want with it? I think you just want some quick internet “fame”, or you sell crap or you think yourself you’re smart, if you ever suffer a “block” and you pompously feed the feeders with the fact. [source] A few years ago, a few more, actually, I read Stephen Fry’s Paperweight a collection of his articles at the time. He mocked this “no subject” block in one of the shorties … [Read more...]