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21.2.02

Fair Day


(Sun 17/02/02) We celebrated troubled_diva’s birthday with a trip to Fair Day in Victoria Park. It was lovely, like a big village fete in hot sun, or like London Pride used to be - and free too! Highlight was the Mr and Ms Fair Day competition. This involved contestants playing a gloriously sick game of celebrity deaths. Drag queens, children, a drag king and some ‘ordinary’ people too. It really was very inclusive, including contestants named Metitsa Gorgeous, Nursie and Mr Wonderful. Each one pulled a dead celebrity's name out of one hat, and the title of a piece of music from the other. The music was either a Carmen Miranda track, or a times table set to music. Of course. So we were treated to re-enactments of the deaths of Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette, Tippi Hedren in The Birds (was she actually killed?) and Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure, plus several others. The 'audience request' death was Princess Margaret, as you'd expect.

One ten year-old girl did the death of Nikki Webster, in the manner of her choosing. She’s not actually dead yet, but she is the Australian Charlotte Church, only MUCH MORE successful, and she seems to inspire a love/hate reaction in people. She shot to fame by singing and flying over the heads of those on stage at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony.

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