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[b]Prunella Minge wrote:[/b]
[quote][quote]Kenny Everett is set to be the subject of a biographical film on BBC Four.

Tim Whitnall - who wrote the stage play Morecambe - is working on a 90-minute film entitled Number One In Heaven.

Whitnall says the title refers to the time he first saw Everett dancing in gay nightclub Heaven.

The biopic will focus on Everett’s troubled childhood at his Catholic secondary school, where he was bullied for his small stature and for being effeminate, The Guardian reports.

BBC4 has previously made biographical films about Frankie Howerd - starring David Walliams - Tony Hancock and Steptoe and Son actors Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett.

No one has yet been cast as Everett, who died of an Aids related illness in 1995, at the age of 50.

Read more: http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/03/15/10685/best_possible_taste...#ixzz0iL3nHbyF
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I must say I hate most of these sorts of things - the Frankie Howerd one took so many liberties with the life and didn't give any sense of why the man was such a brilliant stand-up. The Steptoe and Son one just added to a myth that's been debunked by those who were there at the time. I just hope the Everett effort at least gives a glimpse of the genius whilst dramatising all of the usual cliches. He was an astonishing broadcaster.[/quote]

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Prunella Minge

Kenny Everett is set to be the subject of a biographical film on BBC Four.

Tim Whitnall - who wrote the stage play Morecambe - is working on a 90-minute film entitled Number One In Heaven.

Whitnall says the title refers to the time he first saw Everett dancing in gay nightclub Heaven.

The biopic will focus on Everett’s troubled childhood at his Catholic secondary school, where he was bullied for his small stature and for being effeminate, The Guardian reports.

BBC4 has previously made biographical films about Frankie Howerd - starring David Walliams - Tony Hancock and Steptoe and Son actors Wilfred Bramble and Harry H Corbett.

No one has yet been cast as Everett, who died of an Aids related illness in 1995, at the age of 50.

Read more: www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/03/15/10685/...ste...#ixzz0iL3nHbyF

I must say I hate most of these sorts of things - the Frankie Howerd one took so many liberties with the life and didn't give any sense of why the man was such a brilliant stand-up. The Steptoe and Son one just added to a myth that's been debunked by those who were there at the time. I just hope the Everett effort at least gives a glimpse of the genius whilst dramatising all of the usual cliches. He was an astonishing broadcaster.