Word: lodger
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...hung in, though, barnstorming through the Midwest. In 1974 he came up with a ballad called Beautiful Loser that sounded bold and bitter and pretty personal: "He's always willing to be second best/ A perfect lodger, a perfect guest/ Beautiful loser, read it on the wall/ And realize, you just don't need...
...five years ago. Just revisit Performance to bring it all back. If you've ever sensed that Mick Jagger should have thrown n the towel years ago, this film will show you why. The jig has long been up on Jagger's androgonous lewdness. Yet like the seemingly straight lodger who gets sucked into this singer's hallucinogenic world, you may still revel in the decadence. If you think you might still dig it, as the saying went, go freak yourself...
...door of his fashionably appointed den proves to be revolving. Through it stream people whose untidy problems and messy personalities make Simon seem almost a genteel charmer, though his witty ripostes are fashioned from barbed wire. His upstairs lodger, a sociology student, enters to cadge money and denounce Wagner as a fascist. Simon's elder brother, an academic mole, mewls and pules about the disadvantages of not having an Oxford degree...
That much of it amounts to one joke-and not an especially good one. The real star of the show-in fact, its only excuse- is George Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...
...modest chronicle The Hound of the Baskervilles; he ad elucidated The Adventure of the Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with...