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Topic History of: Dennis Waterman
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Cowcumber and Possett |
My partner worked in a garage years ago near where they lived, he used to see Rula and Dennis the worse for wear come in for fags often, Rula unsteady on her pins.. |
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andrew |
Jim Davidson as one fan and that's himself now, he blames the poor attendance of shows on the recession not that people can't stand him. I like Dennis Waterman's acting and Rula needs to speak out what happened that night. |
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dixie |
I too am looking forward to the Piers Morgan Dennis Waterman interview. Did you see this from Piers Morgan’s Mail On Sunday column:
I’ve been filming Life Stories all week in London - the new series starts airing in a couple of weeks - and today, the subject was Dennis Waterman.
I’ve never met him before, though I’ve always enjoyed his work in The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks.
As I usually do, I went to say hello in the dressing room before the interview.
He seemed nervier than previous guests but I put this down to the fact he rarely does anything like this.
Those nerves were even more evident during the first half hour of filming.
I could tell he was finding it hard to relax and his answers were brief and disjointed. Then the audience got behind him a bit and he began to be more the Dennis Waterman I expected from his on-screen characters.
And that’s where the trouble started.
Waterman’s outrageous comments about hitting his ex-wife Rula Lenska - saying ‘strong, intelligent women’ can argue so well they make men hit them - have made headlines for two weeks and speak for themselves.
What’s extraordinary is that he didn’t seem to have a clue that what he’d said might be remotely controversial.
‘I think that went pretty well,’ he told me afterwards. ‘It was good to finally set the record straight.’
As with the time I interviewed Jim Davidson for the BBC a few years ago, I got a sense of a man trapped in a time-warp - with views, especially about women, that were considered perfectly OK back in the Seventies but which have rightly become increasingly unpalatable to a modern generation.
Dennis, I’m sure, will be baffled about what all the fuss is about.
Just as a bemused Jim couldn’t understand why he could no longer call gay people ‘shirtlifters’. |
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Innocent Accused |
'Violence is the last resort of the incompetent' Isaac Asimov
Except for self-defence or in controlled circumstances involving sport there are absolutely no excuses to resort to it...either verbally or physically. |
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Niknak |
I tend to agree with you, JK, inasmuch as when i was younger things were either "black or white" whereas nowadays (i was 15 when you had your first hit) things tend to be much "greyer". |
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