When he was a little boy, Barry Humphries’ mother sternly told him not to draw attention to himself.
Her floppy-haired, artistic son loved breaking the rules. But nobody could have guessed that a suburban misfit from Melbourne would go on to hog the global spotlight as superstar Dame Edna Everage and a host of other characters.
The world mourned when Barry - acclaimed comic, actor, scriptwriter, artist, book collector and dandy - died at Sydney’s St Vincent’s