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I can only tell you so much in an hour of comedy. On my michaelfromperth.com website, I can say a lot more. To continue the Shamelessly Seeking Attention experience, please click on any of the headings below:
I published this post on 1 March 2020, in blissful ignorance of how, less than three weeks later, the Teatro Colón and all of Argentina would be a very different place.
Before the Kardashians, there was Noelene
More about my journeys to Sylvania Waters.
The Price of karaoke at the Price of Love
I got a free multi-millionaire’s tour of Perth as a result of this post, after the organiser asked if she could use one of the images.
Stalinist purges, cannibal rats and Antarctica
More about the fates of both the notorious ghost ship and the Russian actress it was named after.
The deception of Deception Island
This post in turn contains a link to the polar plunge video.
A musical whaling station on Deception Island
My shameless attention seeking on Deception Island extended to singing. The show to which I refer is not Shamelessly Seeking Attention, but an earlier show I did called The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun, in which I did a silly (some would say bitchy) send-up of The Sound of Music. I might have to do that one again. Please let me know if you’d like me to.
As well as Perth, I marched in three pride parades in Buenos Aires. The first inspired me to write ‘Argentine Pride’, which reached the final of a monologue competition and was professionally performed at Downstairs at the Maj.
Detachable contraceptive cargo pants in Central Park
My spirited defence of cargo pants, as demonstrated in a trip to New York City.
It was Billie Jean King who criticised Chris Evert’s comments on bringing femininity into tennis.
I’m thinking of doing a show about my favourite books. Billie Jean King’s 1982 autobiography would be one of them. It teaches you about the downside of fighting for equal prize money, the frustrations of setting up a trade union, how to face a tennis player with ‘big boobs’ and what to do if one of your lesbian ex-lovers tries to exhort you.
The future Dr Evil’s first trip abroad
A review of my time at Club Med: the sort of wholesome vacation I’d never take now.
Gratuitous shots of me by a pool
I thought of including one or two of these from Club Med in the show, but it would have taken away from the impact of one of my most notorious moments.
A surprise visitor to the Northern Territory
Since I wrote that post, I’ve been back to the Northern Territory, though as far as I’m aware, the surprise visitor hasn’t.
A surprise appearance at the US Library of Congress
You might recognise the woman as the same one who was with me on the zodiac in Antarctica.
A defence of some early shameless attention-seeking … with a Dalek!
A closer look at what I did with what I had, before I lost most of it.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! HERE ARE SOME FURTHER LINKS …
Elvira introduced this movie on late-night TV, and wasn’t too complimentary about it. John Agar may be best remembered as Shirley Temple’s first husband, but he also had a long career in movies and TV, and worked a lot with John Wayne.
Featuring both Charles and Shirley McLine. With Spanish subtitles!
Was the 1631 edition of the King James Bible deliberately sabotaged? It’s highly possible.
One of the many reasons I admire her is that she’s the only mother in the last hundred years to win Wimbledon. Even Serena Williams never did that.
The championship points that won Chris Evert her eighteen Grand Slam singles titles
They’re supposed to be in order, but she actually won the 1982 US Open before the 1982 Australian Open. In those days, they held the Australian Open at the end of the year. Not that I would know this.
Noeline with Jana Wendt on A Current Affair
Watch Noeline respond to her critics, who included the Deputy Prime Minister!
She used her notoriety to produce a cassingle (which I still have) and a rather camp music video.
The original video clip of ‘Physical’
It was quite naughty for 1981, though when I watched it on Hey Hey It’s Saturday, they may have cut out the particularly daring ending.
Kissing the ground in Antarctica – the prelude
Watch it again!
Kissing the ground in Antarctica – the act itself
Was there ever a greater moment in history?
What happened to the MV Lyubov Orlova?
We still don’t know for sure. Perhaps we never will. The article claims that by the late 2000s, the ship was ‘starting to show her age’. I didn’t think that in 2009. it didn’t have the bells and whistles of a new ocean liner, but it was comfortable and clean. I didn’t know that in the early 2000s, it had briefl run aground near Deception Island. Not the sort of thing you’d normally include in publicity material, I guess.
