Maybe not
Dame Edna Everage but her manager (and many say the two have never been seen in the same room at the same time)
Barry Humphries is to join the cast of
The Hobbit.
The
Peter Jackson $500M movie starts filming next March in New Zealand and Humphries will play the Goblin King.
It's not Barry's first acting role. He appeared as
Rupert Murdoch in the 1980's TV series 'Selling Hitler' about the scandal involving the
Sunday Times newspaper and the fake Hitler diaries, the
Kath & Kim movie and
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own based on the
Private Eye magazine comic script.
Humphries contributed some immortal lines to the 2 McKenzie films such as when McKenzie is collared at a London party by a pompous Hooray Henry who asks him :
"tell me Mr McKenzie, is it true Australia is full of homosexuals?" to which McKenzie replies:
"No that's just the publicity we put out to attract the Pommy migrants"
Tomorrow at mid-day
Dame Edna Everage will give a twenty minute talk at the Black & White charity committee's
Woman of Achievement lunch. The
Shuttle bring carry a full report.
In the meantime-here is a slice of Aussie culture from a Barry McKenzie fillum with the wonderful
John le Mesurier.
And if you think that's an exaggeration : In 2007 newly elected PM
Kevin Rudd dumped former PM
John Howard's 'migrant test' that required prospective migrants to know amongst other things who
Don Bradman and
Mervyn Richardson were!.( Richardson invented a lawn mower).
