Festival Front
0 t h e I n S I d Who’s getting up to what this festival
I Uh yeah that", good. that
hit the spot. one more time.
bigger eveP/day. Insider would like to congratulate Cambridge's Hoipolloi Theatre for bringing back good old- fashioned child labour in its show My Uncle Ar/y. The daughter of the artistic director can be seen handing out flyers on George Street between shows. Excellent. but Insider went down to check out the young lady's appearance and was disappointed to see her dressed in modern dress. none of her clothes were torn or dirty and she certainly wasn’t clutching a gruel bowl. Call that child labour? In Insider‘s day blah blah.
This picture: Funky DJ Culkin; left: Cauthoy after and before TV tame; and below: 18-minute sell-out Johnny Vegas
goon baby pass that enormous hookah o Jer here Insider is fatigued. lnsirfer has been burning the suck at both ends. courtesy of a few of the Thai ladyboys and vast guantitie', of opium procured lit the dark town. You know that place A where poor people ll‘.’f: blissfully unaware of this cra/y f. nnge. this era/y life we live. this week Insider will be taking you on a poppy hay ride through those press releases that were dug out of the bin ten minutes before writing you this rnissrve.
I While Insider is on the subject of child exploitation. Gunnar Cauthey lwho’?). the y()ung star of the really not very good BBC children's TV programme. The Demon Headmaster, is all grown up and is starring in a new play called Western up here. So if you have fond memories of gatecrasher, but wrth all the that vaguely culty TV show sense of a once and future you may want to check him king the 9f year»old declined out.
(well, hrs spokespeople did anyway). It turns out the invrtation was all Just a rouse to big up The Threeweeks f'rrngeOurx. which apparently is about as funny as . um . . Barschak.
So much publicity. so little talent. It was the epitaph written on the grave into which Aaron Barschak falls every day during hrs Fringe show. ()ne enterprising (read idiotic. wrtless and studenty) festival magazine lhr‘eeweeks offered Prince William a chance to revrew his party
club promoter who got more
into the clubbing (to death)
than the promoting. News has reached Insider's fragile ears
that the rnanchild of hits such
as Home Alone and My Girl
wrll be rnakrng an appearance
at the film's aftershow party at
Soul Biscurt <04 Cabaret
Voltaire. Friday 22 August at 10.130pm. The rumour that
Culkin may actually be DJrng
has sent Insrder into all of a
gurver. Celebrities making
fools of themselves is one
thing, but ex-millionaire
sheltered American child stars trying to pass themselves off i as hedonistic vinyl spinners is something truly
I Another child star turned serious, ll mostly unemployed. adult actor is abOiit to make hrs comeback. Macauley Culkin can be seen at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival in Party Monster, the film based on the true story of Michael Alig. the New York
n Thank heavens for little boys. cos little boys get
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cherishable. Insrder is putting good money on a bet that this erI be one of the best party club nights of the festival . . in an ironic way, that is.
I Just a few things to end on before Insider gets back to the Reader's Digest Coleridge Collection and the first series of Magnum PI. The collected
finally, some real talent hits the fringe. Johnny Vegas If. to play two surprise gigf. at the Stand M Aug) and the (Late Royal it?) Aug) [)on't expect
to get a ticket 7 they sold out in 18 minutes when they were put on sale last Wednesday Insrder doesn't really mind, haying built up an addiction to going to see every show at the new Pod theatre. Just to listen to the lovely undulating sound of the traffic.
cast of the play Shanier. you should be ashamed of yourselves: talking up your show wrth confessions of witeswapping and stealing church funds. it's not like there is anything wrong wrth either of those things . is then-3?. And
I Actor Aidan Quinn is making a livrng from harnrning up his ‘orrish' roots in Michael Collins and now Song For a Raggy Boy. Ournn himself wrll be holding a Reel Life: Masterclass at the UGC at (3pm on 19 August.
Head to the Underbelly for the funniest bar staff on the Fringe.
Words: Maureen Ellis I Comedians get abuse from drunken hecklers at the best of times. so you've got to wonder what bright spark came up with the idea of putting them behind a bar. But it's happening. Smirnoff and the Underbelly have conspired to have your favourite funny person serving your favourite tipple — just don't expect to be upright for long if it's Boothby Graffoe at the pumps. ‘I did half an hour behind the bar and I made eight vodka cocktails for eight different peOpIe and I used three bottles of vodka.‘ says Graffoe. 'I am the barman of your dreams.'.
As might be expected. the banter will be served up quicker than the drinks, but. take along your Smirnoff
token in this very magazine. and you can have a snippet of a Fringe act and a vodka-concoction for novvt.
Boothby sounds like Our kinda guy (he didn't charge for a single beverage). so he's mixed up a cocktail especially dedicated to The List.
Long List Ece Tea
1 shot of Smirnoff Vodka
0.5 shot of Cointreau
0.25 shot of Cassis
Equal parts Apple and Orange Juice
I Smirnoff Comedy Mix takes place during the festival every Tuesday and Thursday. 5.30—6.30pm.
6 THE LIST FESTIVAL GUIDE 14—21 Aug 2003