“Celebrity Eskimo Sandi Toksvig, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, Clare Balding, Vita Sackville-West, God love them: there’s a touch of Desperate Dan in the jaw-bone area, no doubt the better to go bobbing for apples.”
‘Dusty: An Intimate Portrait’ has been written by author Karen Bartlett. It speculates about the musical icon’s much talked about relationships with women.
Quoting extracts of Bartlett from the book, Lewis continued: “It is thus a tragedy that Dusty Springfield’s whole existence was blighted by her orientation, which explains ‘the silence and secrecy she extended over much of her life, and her self-loathing’.”
Lewis wrote: “One glance at her chin should have revealed all – but the Sixties was not a fraction as liberated and swinging as people now assume.”
At the end of his review, Lewis concluded: “But did Dusty really have an affair in Mustique with Princess Margaret? If I am sceptical it is only because Hanoverians have small chins.”
Roger Lewis is one of Britain's funniest humourists - but, as ever, we see wit and irony are completely wasted on the thick and stupid.
Here are some other book reviews he wrote for The Spectator - if you can't see he's taking the piss you're brain dead.
Here are some other book reviews he wrote for The Spectator - if you can't see he's taking the piss you're brain dead.
PS This is a complete non-story planted by Pink News' top gay Tory friend, Iain Dale, who published the book.
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I thought that Roger Lewis was dead. He's a silly old bugger and clearly his brain is starting to shrink.
ReplyDeleteIt's not funny though is it? "Dusty Springfield’s whole existence was blighted by her orientation, which explains ‘the silence and secrecy she extended over much of her life, and her self-loathing’.”
ReplyDeleteBreak out the cat gut, my sides have split. NOT.