When Diana Dors Ruled the Earth
I didn’t invent the title of this one. I want to say it was Peter Cook, but I can’t confirm this. Google stands helpless.
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November 19, 2018 at 9:31 am
Definitely Peter Cook—I think Dudley Moore spoke it during one of the Pete and Dud dialogues from “Not Only…But Also.”
November 19, 2018 at 9:35 am
It is Cook. From “The Making Of A Movie.” Not Only But Also. 1970.
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November 19, 2018 at 9:42 am
Thanks!
November 19, 2018 at 10:21 am
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November 19, 2018 at 5:50 pm
November 19, 2018 at 5:51 pm
November 19, 2018 at 9:55 pm
I was slightly mistaken—the phrase “when Diana Dors ruled the earth” was indeed used in a Pete and Dud dialogue, but not any in “Not Only…But Also” (though as smcnic says, the phrase first appeared in NOBA’s “The Making Of A Movie”).
The dialogue in question is from “Tea for Two,” part of the 1970s stage show “Behind the Fridge,” whose script was published in the US as “Good Evening: A Comedy-revue in Two Acts.” Here’s the relevant excerpt, spoken by Dud:
“It’s interesting what you were saying about Man’s basic hostility to women because I think that God, with His usual perspiccacity, has made Man the aggresor in the eternal war of the sexes. I mean, since Primordial times, when Diana Dors ruled the earth, Man has been the hunter. Where did I put those bloody tea bags?”
November 20, 2018 at 7:47 am
The beard in the first slide was a free premium given out at “Rasputin the Mad Monk”, a lurid Hammer presumably targeting Mature Adults. It’s featured on the poster. I like to think somebody has a photo of a theaterful of Mature Adults, male and female, all wearing their free beards.
November 20, 2018 at 9:19 am
Thanks, Revelator!
“Free beards” ought to be enough to get anyone into the cinema.
November 25, 2018 at 3:15 pm
Of course there was the scandalously rude DEREK AND CLIVE LIVE album by Pete and Dud which comes, gloriously, to mind.
November 25, 2018 at 5:37 pm
Worst job I ever had…