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 Mrs Slocombe's Pussy - Stuart Jeffries
Description: ISBN 0007291817 / Genre: Film / Television / For most of us, sitting in our living rooms looking for an excuse not to talk to each other ... more  Mrs Slocombe's Pussy - Stuart Jeffries ... of a Thursday night, a million million miles away from moon landings and Cold War tension and Third World famine, it is the addiction to a little flickering box in the corner that has shaped our lives since the late 1950s. In this personal tribute to teleheaven, Stuart Jeffries explores the way in which our lives have been coloured by looking at the world through the cathode ray tube.Newest Review: ... & Ben as an infant. And his comparison of Trumptonshire with Walmington-on-Sea is just inspired - why had I never seen the ... more ... similarities before? He also suggests that the development of reality television has put us on the road to a future like that in David Cronenberg's film of J.G. Ballard's novel "Crash". But it was his egg-headed likening of Sooty to the Greek philosopher Cratylus that was a better clue to the way the book was going to develop. Have you ever been happily stroking a pussy and then suddenly it snaps at you without warning? Well that's what happens here. When he finally got down to Mrs. Slocombe...more |
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Mrs Slocombe's Pussy - Stuart Jeffries: a flobadopalop (764 words)
by pje - written on 31.07.01 (Very useful, 191 readings)
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Stuart Jeffries works for The Guardian (I can hear Sid groaning already - this op. is going to be very good for sales of whisky if nothing else) he expects to have spent eleven years in front of the television by the time he is 72, and he's half-way there. He now has 150 TV channels to choose from, but not one of them shows Carol Hersey, the much missed girl on the Test Card.* Which is a shame really. Although I can't say I miss that clown dummy monster thing she played noughts and crosses against - that must have given kids nightmares. Not me though, in my case it was Snorky from the Banana Splits that gave me the creeps. ...
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