John Inman RIP

[NMH]

I think he did what it said on the tin.

He was a gay actor. ....I mean he did gay acts.... I mean he was very good at being gay.... I mean...

 

[Rusco]

I think I'm right in saying that now the truth about his dark secret can be told: he was a happily married man, apparently.

Inman's long-term partner, Ron Lynch, is said to be "devastated" at his death.

well, that's cleared that up then:safeway

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

I used to live two doors down from the house in Preston in which John Inman was born, fact fans.

I think he was also Dick Knight's uncle, or something.

 

[Man of Harveys]

well, that's cleared that up then:safeway

I don't where I'd heard that from...

 

[NMH]

Good ol' Inman, still making us laugh with gay innuendo

Strange - a bloke plays the total woofter all his life, walks like a screamer, acts exactly like a mincer all the way, and there are rumours that he's really straight!













I'm talking of course, of Simon Jordan.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Was it actually the AIDS that got him in the end?

 

[Biscuit]

RIP John.

 

[magoo]

Didn't anyone else absolutely f***ing hate him?

"He was a brilliant pantomime dame!" I hope i can get those kind of accolades.

 

[Rusco]

Was it actually the AIDS that got him in the end?

Noway, he's still trying to pull a bird, let alone a B list celeb

 

[Man of Harveys]

Anyone else seen the Are You Being Served FILM? For some reason every 70s sitcom had to have a dreadful spinoff film, usually featuring the regulars going off on holiday somewhere.

Spanish hotelier "Ah yes, these are tenthouses, not penthouses. Whenever I'm having a t, I'm having a p."
Humphries "Remind me to take coffee".

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Rising Damp film was ok

 

[robbied69]

Rising Damp film was ok

I noticed with Rising Damp film that alot of the stuff that appeared in the series appeared on the film. Happened with 'Love Thy Neighbour' also.

 

[Buzzer]

Was it actually the AIDS that got him in the end?

Hope it wasn't the bad Aids.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Anyone else seen the Are You Being Served FILM? For some reason every 70s sitcom had to have a dreadful spinoff film, usually featuring the regulars going off on holiday somewhere.

Yes, i've seen that. Very sandy.
With all such makings, studios died and narrative had to be strangely physicalised by single idea-men who only had concepts of postcard serialisation of lost realities. Nothing morbid or deep or worth remembering. Just relationships aborted and thrust into racially torturous surrounds in order to split them for good and wish forever for home.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

'The people look like ants from here'

'They are ants, we havent taken off yet'

 

[Pavilionaire]

Pantomime dame? Christ, if I heard the audience shouting "He's behind you!" I'd turn around pretty sharpish!

Inman was as gay as a lord, made Grayson seem like Stallone by comparison.

 

[Frutos]

Anyone else seen the Are You Being Served FILM? For some reason every 70s sitcom had to have a dreadful spinoff film, usually featuring the regulars going off on holiday somewhere.

Spanish hotelier "Ah yes, these are tenthouses, not penthouses. Whenever I'm having a t, I'm having a p."
Humphries "Remind me to take coffee".

Not a bad film as that kind of thing goes.

I love AYBS as a series though, Between Inman camping it up all over the place and Mrs. Slocombe's pussy, it was British innuendo comedy at it's best, almost like 'Carry On Grace Brothers' at times.

RIP John

 

[Titanic]

The sad end of an all-round entertainer - even his name was a double-entendre

 

[SussexSpur]

I like the "Rising Damp" film, even though the replacement for Richard Beckinsale is a bit bland, and the look of it, outside the studio setting, seems a little jarring at first. Some lovely dream sequence scenes, though.
And the dramatic revelations at the end are poignantly-done, about Rigsby's first name and Philip's real origins.

The Likely Lads movie is fun, too, and the Porridge one isn't too bad.

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

When I was about eight or nine on me hols in Margate at Grandparent's place(Mums's from there) and was taken to the cinema on Margate sea-front by my Mother.
Line of about 30 people wating for the doors to open when this guy in a leather jacket and jeans walked-up and asked everbody
what time the film was.
Thought nothing of it untill my Mother said to me,
DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT WAS?
Did not have a clue as ARE YOU BEING SERVED had only been on TV about for it's first few months.
Turns-out it was none other than the aformentiend Mr Inman.
HAMPSHIRE DAVE