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Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

(2012)

Overview

Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.

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  1. Director : James Strong
  2. Cast : Oliver Lansley,Katherine Kelly,Angela Lonsdale,Tony Pitts,Perry Millward,Jonathan Kerrigan,James Wilby,Glenn Wild,Tomos Eames,Adam Garcia,Simon Callow,James McArdle,Leon Ockenden,Trevor White,Uriel Emil Pollack,Andrew Greenough,Alex MacQueen,Stefano Braschi,James Floyd,Deirdre Mullins,Mike Burnside,Don Gallagher,Remi Black,Bethany Harrison,Israel Donowa,Cristina Hoey,Anabel Kutay

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Original TitleBest Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Status Released

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  • 2012-10-02

Original Language

Runtime 01h 29m

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