Coogan to play Savile on telly

[kalowski]

Classic bit of racism there as he tells us how West Indian people are "happy cheerful souls...noted for their loud and lively laughter."

[PlanktonSideburns]

Get him cancelled pronto

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Classic bit of racism there as he tells us how West Indian people are "happy cheerful souls...noted for their loud and lively laughter."

He also mentioned how loudly they scream.  Didn't Ben Elton do a running joke about that in his sitcom about Health and Safety officers?

[Aaron500]

He certainly describes the scene in the service station cafe very well, considering he wasn't there and was waiting in the car.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

He certainly describes the scene in the service station cafe very well, considering he wasn't there and was waiting in the car.

He says he was watching through the window.

[Replies From View]

He says he was watching through the window.

Wanking while Rome burned.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Wanking while Rome burned.

Fiddling while Hell burnt in waiting.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Apparently Savile met and got on well with Elvis Presley's manager, 'The Colonel', Tom Parker, who seems to have been a bit of a kindred spirit.

[kalowski]

Jesus, look at that line "I felt it criminal that the age of consent in the admirable state is eighteen. It really is unfair because everyone knows that everything matures quicker in the sunshine."
In. Plain. Sight.

[bigfatheart]

To be fair it seems quite out of character for him to care what the age of consent is.

[McDead]

Compelling stuff though, for all its smarm and sleaze. "Fetch the boy" is quite a moment.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

It's been rumoured that Colonel Tom Parker may have committed murder.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/colonel-parker-managed-elvis-career-but-was-he-a-killer-on-the-lam-108042206/

[Video Game Fan 2000]

The Colonel's hotdog scam doesn't make any sense since each sausage only has two ends and no one would buy a hotdog if the ends looked cut off. He wouldn't be making more franks last longer, he'd just be throwing away the middles.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

The Colonel's hotdog scam doesn't make any sense since each sausage only has two ends and no one would buy a hotdog if the ends looked cut off. He wouldn't be making more franks last longer, he'd just be throwing away the middles.

I guess all but the ends would be hidden by the long buns, while just a couple of lengths thrown on the ground would have sufficed.   Didn't T. P. Barnum say no-one ever lost money by underestimating the public's intelligence?

[idunnosomename]

I've started doing width=420 because it's the weed number lmao and it amuses me to use that for seemingly normal things.

you are Elon Musk and I claim my one DogeCoin

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I'm very sceptical the tough, cynical, even brutal Savile was stage-struck in the way he describes on this page when meeting Elvis.   Getting close to Presley would just be a step up the ladder for him.  He think he describes the meeting in such magical terms because he knows most readers would feel that way.  He thus wants the reader to empathize with what he claims to have felt and enjoy imagining something as enchanting happening to them.

[bigfatheart]

Incidentally, for those who've never seen the picture of Savile with Elvis, here it is:

[katzenjammer]

Watched the Ayrton Senna documentary earlier which included this clip of Alain Prost being a bit sleazy in an interview with Selina Scott. Just made me think that this kind of behaviour really was quite normalised back in the 80s. If years later Prost had been convicted of some sexual crime we might be looking back at clips like this and wondering how nobody knew.

https://youtu.be/SCHeACT4oZg

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Incidentally, for those who've never seen the picture of Savile with Elvis, here it is:

Elvis died in 1977, so Savile introduced them before Sutcliffe was caught.  Imagine the chat.

SAVILE: As it 'appens, my mate Pete, see, 'e's quite the ladykiller.
SUTCLIFFE: Literally!  I meet 'em and I'm like "you look so full of life right now" then a second later "you were full of life just then."
PRESLEY (putting on mocking Yorkshire accent): Now then, now then!
SAVILE: As Plod will be saying to Pete here one day, 'cause 'e ain't got my connections to get 'im off!
PRESLEY: So you'll be (sings) rockin' to the Jailhouse Rock and stayin' at (sings again) Heart-break Ho-tel!
SAVILE: One of Her Majesty's hotels more like -two, actually: the one for wrong'uns and the one for nutters.
PRESLEY: I think I prefer His Majesty's hotel, that is mine, the King's, mansion, Graceland.
SUTCLIFFE: Don't get too cocky.  You need bringin' down to earth with a bit of plain-speaking Yorkshireman's common-sense.  You could end up in the state penitentiary yourself, shagging your missus from age fourteen!
PRESLEY: Pardon me, sir.  I may like 'em young - but at least I don't like 'em dead!  Can you even imagine the like, Jimmy?
SAVILE: Hmmmmm.... (smiles enigmatically)

[beanheadmcginty]

Watched the Ayrton Senna documentary earlier which included this clip of Alain Prost being a bit sleazy in an interview with Selina Scott. Just made me think that this kind of behaviour really was quite normalised back in the 80s. If years later Prost had been convicted of some sexual crime we might be looking back at clips like this and wondering how nobody knew.

https://youtu.be/SCHeACT4oZg

Isn't he just behaving like a completely standard Frenchman?

[jamiefairlie]

Watched the Ayrton Senna documentary earlier which included this clip of Alain Prost being a bit sleazy in an interview with Selina Scott. Just made me think that this kind of behaviour really was quite normalised back in the 80s. If years later Prost had been convicted of some sexual crime we might be looking back at clips like this and wondering how nobody knew.

https://youtu.be/SCHeACT4oZg

I'd forgotten just what a Diana clone Scott was, right down to the coy looking down and up thing.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Savile's account of how he got moved into a top hotel suite from a cheaper one is characteristic in the way it vaunts his manipulativeness. He says he just happened to be on a holiday in New York as a prize from Mecca dance hall company for his work at the same time he was being considered for recruitment to Radio Luxembourg. I think that was a lie to make it all seem less cynical and that he'd gone there by his own initiative, aiming to stay at a top hotel and then somehow let the station's management know he was there to try and impress them.

[famethrowa]

It's kinda like this Savile character is a lying, self-obsessed piece of shit!

[jamiefairlie]

I'm very sceptical the tough, cynical, even brutal Savile was stage-struck in the way he describes on this page when meeting Elvis.  Getting close to Presley would just be a step up the ladder for him.  He think he describes the meeting in such magical terms because he knows most readers would feel that way.  He thus wants the reader to empathize with what he claims to have felt and enjoy imagining something as enchanting happening to them.

Can you imagine how mutually unintelligible that conversation was:

Jingle jangle jewelry jewelry

Uh thanyouvermuch uh

Now then how's about as it happens

uh merrychrimuseverone uh

now then jangle happen then

thanchrimus uh uh

UHOOHAAAUHUHUOOUUUHHHHHUHUH

uh chrim uh

[kalowski]

"Hotels are better in the UK because at least you have a TV."
"Give this man a suite!!"

[shoulders]

Can you imagine how mutually unintelligible that conversation was:

Jingle jangle jewelry jewelry

Uh thanyouvermuch uh

Now then how's about as it happens

uh merrychrimuseverone uh

now then jangle happen then

thanchrimus uh uh

UHOOHAAAUHUHUOOUUUHHHHHUHUH

uh chrim uh

Frank Bruno is sounding well.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Haha, that might be his most self-aggrandising yarn yet. Its common practice to give people an upgrade for free if there's something wrong with their room. I've had upgrades before because of problems in rooms and it had nothing to do with national pride or implied threats or going "urgh-e-urgh-e-urgh" at people and everything to do with it being a cheap way to compensate someone and solve the problem instantly.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

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[Phoenix Lazarus]

In these extracts, when he talks about writing, he mentions the 'thrill of the empty page' as a chance to evoke different emotional responses from the reader. It seems just another expression of his propensity for manipulation.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

This previous passage shows his reasons for writing his life story - to pre-empt someone else making money from becoming his biographer.