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EQUITY DEMANDS producers of “large-scale UK tours” now intervene and personally secure suitable lodgings for performers up and down the land, after shining a light on “inadequate” arrangements in 2023. One cannot help hankering for more resourceful days, when mere word of mouth (normally at Crewe station) ensured any travelling player worth his salt had workable knowledge of the hospitable, lousy or sexually advantageous from Penzance to Aberdeen.
★ AUSTRALIAN MATINEE idol Guy Pearce was forced to run for the hills after briefly daring to question the logic of irate trans folk regarding castings. A brief glance at Mr Pearce’s drag queen appearance in long-ago movie, confirms he proved a considerably more fetching young lady than most of his current critics.