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[liadnan]

Ou sont les scandales d'antan?

He seems to have spent the last 40 years quietly doing charity work. Where are the rest of them... googling: Ward killed himself of course. Rice-Davies lives* in America. Keeler lives in north London. And Ivanov was "recalled to Moscow and never heard of again"...

Beats dodgy mortgages any day. No one will ever make a film about the Jowell affair (ooh, maybe he will go down: see here if you don't understand this story yet), nor will it give rise to an image that signified an era(though thinking about it, that might be in Berlusconi's line, particularly if you buy Boris' take).

*Hah. Original typo of "lies" now corrected. He would say that, wouldn't he?

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[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

The picture of Christine Keeler (I think it was her... apologies if it was Mandy Rice Davies) is so iconic. It really brightened an otherwise surreal Friday afternoon (an afternoon which really had me thinking I am on a different planet to the rest of the world).

[liadnan]

That was Keeler yes. Photo by Lewis Morley, in 1963. This is a press shot of her in the middle of the affair. She really was beautiful I think (and still is, from my vague memories of photographs and an interview with her in a Sunday colour supplement a while ago) Here's Rice-Davies.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, I noticed a poster for "Basic Instinct 2" with Sharon Stone in the same pose as Christine Keeler on the chair. Whereas Keeler looked sexy and sophisticated, thought Stone just looked tarty.

[ex-ajhalluk585.livejournal.com]

There was that centred stillness about Keeler, particularly in that iconic photograph. My only acquaintance with the scandal was via Flanders and Swann ("No smoke without fire. Nil combustibus pro fumo) which my parents explained to me plainly and simply at the time (whatever our difficulties, I've always appreciated their frank and open approach to questions; I remember my father, having got back from a holiday in Hampshire, expressing his irritation at a schoolmaster in a Nelson exhibition wriggling on the tines of his charges demanding to know who Emma, Lady Hamilton was: "I wanted to say, "tell them she was his mistress, for God's sake, man! Is it that difficult?"

[badgerolove.livejournal.com]

Now, I'm thinking of doing a law conversion course. Would this be a foolish idea? It's a very embryonic thought still... hope you're well x

[liadnan]

It depends... if you wanted to do it starting this Sept you would need to act NOW. Question is really what you would want to do - bar or solicitor, what kind of stuff (which is difficult to decide when you don't know owt about it, but there it is).
You can email me (liadnan at livejournal.com will reach me if you don't have the real one, though I think you do) though am a bit bogged down today. Or we can go for a drink when I get back.

[badgerolove.livejournal.com]

No,I'd leave it till next year...definitelywould have to be bar if I was going to do it. I will indeed email you and we should definitely go for a drink anyway.