BASIL IS BACK - LIVE !

Michael Coppel and Philip McIntyre in association with Louise

Withers present the World Premiere Tour of John Cleese’s official adaptation of Fawlty Towers Live on Stage – touring Australia and New Zealand from August 2016.

Fawlty Towers Live will be based on the BBC TV series written by John Cleese and Connie Booth. It will be adapted for the stage by John Cleese, with direction by Caroline J. Ranger and set design by Liz Ascroft.
Manic, snobbish, condescending, sycophantic and rude, Basil Fawlty is without doubt one of the funniest, most iconic and most memorable British comedy characters ever written. This original adaptation and all-new Australian cast, will bring all your beloved characters to life onstage in an unmissable evening of hilarity!

Sydney: Roslyn Packer Theatre FROM 19 AUGUST

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NOTICE : Careless Whispers will be back onboard tomorrow after a bout of illness. Even the office cat Mildred who can adequately fill our shoes couldn't be available due to a de-sexing operation. 

Capt. Wacky of Titanic 2

Our favorite billionaires Clive Palmer has launched his political campaign to take power In September and become Supreme Ruler Of Australia.
Speaking at a policy launch on the weekend Clive had some harsh words about our Welsh born Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the London born Leader of The Opposition Tony Abbott:
“You wonder how two people, both born outside Australia, in foreign countries, can relate to the people that live in this country,”“They don’t think about what it means to live in this country, to live and to die, and to stand for what it means to be Australian.”
Well there goes around one quarter of the countries votes with now nearly 6 million Aussies born abroad and another 3 million having at least one parent born elsewhere.
Palmer was speaking at the weekend launch of his campaign jet pictured above. 

 Alas, the Shuttle's intrepid sub editor Mildred Pierce donned her Amelia Earhart Memorial Flying Helmet and has uncovered Clive's patriotic fervor is not all it seems : the Bombarder jet dubbed Clive 1 is registered in a tax haven, the Isle Of Man.
Meanwhile those planning a joyous voyage on Clive's Titanic 2 can now view an interactive model of the ship and choose their cabin. Take note : it looks like there are the same number of lifeboats as the original!

Earth to The UK Daily Mail

Tim & sister Charlotte at the Volvo launch

Perusing our favourite tabloid newspaper, the UK Daily Mail an article catches the sharp eye of the Shuttle's resident sub-editor Mildred Pierce.
A number of paparazzi photographs taken on Bondi Beach feature UK Made In Chelsea reality TV star Caggie Dunlop apparently locked in an embrace with Sydney man-about-town Tim Holmes a'Court, grandson (not the son as the Mail claims) of the late West Australian billionaire, Robert Holmes a'Court.
Alarm bells rang immediately.
We see Tim around town at smart parties and it just didn't look like him.
Tim confirmed tonight, when we encountered him at the launch of the new Volvo V40 at the Technology Park in Alexandria- it wasn't he.
Tim says  friends in London had contacted him and thought the article was a hoot.
Tim confirms that while Caggie and he are friends, they are not dating.


But who is the chap embracing gorgeous Caggie ?.
Step forward rock'n'roller Nicholas Routledge of the band Van She who has been dating Caggie for six weeks now.

Caggie Dunlop                            Nicholas Routledge                                  Mildred Pierce

Best Wishes to Charlotte Dawson

Like some of New Zealand's best exports ( Russell Crowe) we like to claim as our own-Charlotte Dawson has forged a successful career in Australia as a television host, currently at the helm Foxtels' Australia's Next Top Model.

Charlotte has been on the receiving end of a campaign of Twitter hate over the past weeks. Earlier last night the Shuttle encountered Charlotte as the East Sydney Tech at a bash to celebrate the launch of  a new range of Waterford Lismore crystal. Sometime later that evening she checked herself into St Vincent's Hospital. The toll of an on-line hate campaign had finally hit home.

All at the Shuttle (including sub-editor Mildred Pierce) send their best wishes to one of our favourite Sydney-siders Charlotte Dawson and hopes for a speedy recovery . These things are sent to try us. They make us stronger in the end.

update : Guy Pearce Wins-A Murdoch Gives Award

Anna Torv

Both Guy Pearce and Kate Winslet have won Emmys for their roles in the re-make of the 40's classic Mildred Pierce.

Anna Torv (who The Daily Beast reckons was 'snubbed' of an Emmy nomination along with her co-star Aussie actor John Noble ) from the hit TV series Fringe presented Guy with his award.

Anna is the daughter of Queensland radio network owner Hans Torv and the niece of Anna Murdoch Mann the former wife of Rupert Murdoch and mother of his children James. Lachlan and  Elisabeth.

Anna, named after her aunt is particularly close to her and regularly visits her in New York.



Kate Winslet at the 2011 Emmys

batty Lord returns...

     3.34am- Our favourite Peer of the Realm in the form of Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has flown back into town and will host a gala dinner at the Sheraton Hotel on Tuesday night.

      tSS has secured a one-on-one interview with the leading climate sceptic and expects much fun as we probe his Lordship on his wacky views. On Tuesday he will continue the theme that all this climate change nonsense is simply a rallying call for the left, devoid of a cause since the Berlin Wall fell !.

      Monckton also financed a film in response to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

    
     The Great Global Warming Swindle starred Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols and was directed by Malcolm NcLaren (err..note to sub-editor: Mildred, please check this !).
    

       

The guest list should be most illuminating. Monckton enthusiast, the like-minded Alan Jones will be MC.

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 #   The latest issue of Cleo has taken our advice and done a piece on the website Passive Aggressive notes.

SPECIAL NOTICE :

The entire staff of the Social Shuttle (including the recently sacked sub-editor Mildred Pierce) would like to state, for the record, they have never had an affair or dalliance with the respected golfer  Mr Tiger Woods.