Good taste never goes out of fashion

Jul 11 2008 by Valerie Hill, Liverpool Daily Post

The grass isn’t always greener

JOHN CLEESE’S third wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger, a psychotherapist, who is on an interim pre-divorce £77,500 monthly pay-out, blames the comedy actor’s depression for the break-down of their marriage. He says this was caused by the death of several friends recently.

What is the problem?

Such reactive despair is human enough, so surely she should have the skills to help him through bad times? Each of this former Python star’s wives look alike to me, so, in hindsight, wouldn’t it have been far less bitter and much, much cheaper to have stayed put with number one?

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YOU can’t have a simple choir competition now on television, it’s got to be played according to reality TV rules with the losers emoting as if they had lost loved ones.

But what reduced me (and the judges) to tears on BBC’s new show, Last Choir Standing, was the heart-tugging rendition of Moon River by Northern Ireland’s New Community Choir. Not because I felt sorry for their disabled members, but because of their sheer talent and artistry.

Noel Coward’s maxim about “how strangely potent cheap music is” was never truer than when performed this well.