EVERYONE laughed when I suggested it. We were staging a lighthearted show at the Camden Arts Centre, where I chaired the exhibition committee at the time, of doors – yes those things you open and close every day.
This was to be a display of all the art and design that had gone into their making, from the splendid use of medieval oak carvings and Victorian coloured glass to modernist creations and the latest bland electronic contraptions.
The obvious person to open it was, of course, Diana Dors – statuesque actress, blonde glamour girl, Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe or, as David Brett describes her in his new biography, a self-destructive hurricane in mink.
Diana came to the opening – for a fee – and proved to be something better to gape at than unsexy sliding doors. That was the only time I ever met the late Diana, originally Diana Fluck, from Swindon, who died, perhaps prophetically, in 1984....read more
http://www.islingtontribune.com/reviews/books/2011/jan/books-review-diana-dors-hurricane-mink-david-bret
This was to be a display of all the art and design that had gone into their making, from the splendid use of medieval oak carvings and Victorian coloured glass to modernist creations and the latest bland electronic contraptions.
The obvious person to open it was, of course, Diana Dors – statuesque actress, blonde glamour girl, Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe or, as David Brett describes her in his new biography, a self-destructive hurricane in mink.
Diana came to the opening – for a fee – and proved to be something better to gape at than unsexy sliding doors. That was the only time I ever met the late Diana, originally Diana Fluck, from Swindon, who died, perhaps prophetically, in 1984....read more
http://www.islingtontribune.com/reviews/books/2011/jan/books-review-diana-dors-hurricane-mink-david-bret
