tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post7857740269537228152..comments2023-10-21T11:46:32.529+01:00Comments on Madame Arcati: Mary Beard: My kind of RomanMadame Arcatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-14656063916928255552012-04-30T20:56:40.421+01:002012-04-30T20:56:40.421+01:00That's mad. It's an iconic spread - why is...That's mad. It's an iconic spread - why is the Standard burying itself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-22755283830508816092012-04-30T18:24:05.200+01:002012-04-30T18:24:05.200+01:00It's still online but sadly 'buried'. ...It's still online but sadly 'buried'. If you key 'Londoner's Diary' into the paper's search box, up pops the diary - but it is untitled and blurred with the news. A practised eye will discern it. Very odd. I do hope the page is not in trouble. It's edited very well and breaks many a tale.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-61536487570235754642012-04-30T18:14:29.318+01:002012-04-30T18:14:29.318+01:00The Londoner's Diary is not online any more. W...The Londoner's Diary is not online any more. Why have they done that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-57625449398644927122012-04-30T12:37:11.589+01:002012-04-30T12:37:11.589+01:00I learn that Roger gave Madame a detour on this oc...I learn that Roger gave Madame a detour on this occasion and gave a party narrative to the Londoner's Diary. If you can find it on the Evening Standard website let me know. The things writers will do for mere publicity!Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-67881770188820615022012-04-27T23:23:05.095+01:002012-04-27T23:23:05.095+01:00I'm looking forward to Madame's account of...I'm looking forward to Madame's account of Roger Lewis's dinner with Michael Gove at the GarrickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-75478891757802894042012-04-27T20:41:08.296+01:002012-04-27T20:41:08.296+01:00Her TV show is excellent - I think she was stung b...Her TV show is excellent - I think she was stung by Gill's casual nastiness which is (as usual) summoned up by his jaded desire to aggravate. Unfortunately churning out tired insults at female performers who have not got themselves spray tanned, blonded, botoxed or otherwise beautified for his mental tumescence is his stock in trade, and goes down well among the cunties at the droopy Sunday Times. Murdoch has had his eye off the ball there for years.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-64720717658437648082012-04-27T20:23:59.333+01:002012-04-27T20:23:59.333+01:00I haven't seen Beard's programme but I tru...I haven't seen Beard's programme but I trust it is good.<br /><br />However I thought her riposte to AA Gill was very snobby. She said she thought maybe he was callous and sexist because he hadn't been to university and so didn't know how to communicate with learned ladies.<br /><br />Whereas I have found university people to be some of the most crass and callous and sexist, and that is just the feminist professors.<br /><br />QRGEllyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01103667133412183125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-33899814314569278772012-04-27T18:13:54.984+01:002012-04-27T18:13:54.984+01:00I'm fascinated by Jude C-T's comment about...I'm fascinated by Jude C-T's comment about the shape of her breasts being criticised. Where can we get a peek at them?Christiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-86732808738542605542012-04-27T17:34:23.150+01:002012-04-27T17:34:23.150+01:00Lovely comment from the Telegraph article on this ...Lovely comment from the Telegraph article on this which deserves sharing.<br />"He used to be AAA Gill until he was downgraded."Christiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-52521222926028308962012-04-27T11:05:17.044+01:002012-04-27T11:05:17.044+01:00Mary Beard is by far the most watchable and most i...Mary Beard is by far the most watchable and most intelligent presenter on TV. She has that rare ability to convey her passion, like David Attenborough or even the dreaded David Starkey. It's fabulous that Madame Arcati appreciates her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-71483572886306481452012-04-27T10:54:40.137+01:002012-04-27T10:54:40.137+01:00Magic words - let us hope he is given cause to mak...Magic words - let us hope he is given cause to make it permanent.<br /><br />A message to Madame Arcati on Twitter from Mary Beard: going to print out your blog and keep it for when I might be feeling low!Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-649751664451065972012-04-27T10:51:38.610+01:002012-04-27T10:51:38.610+01:00I've always said my favourite words in the who...I've always said my favourite words in the whole world are "AA Gill is away"grooming Guruhttp://www.groomingguru.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-27169102818469111342012-04-27T09:32:46.259+01:002012-04-27T09:32:46.259+01:00Thank you http://www.thesocialshuttle.com/.
My bl...Thank you http://www.thesocialshuttle.com/.<br /><br />My blessings to Australia. I must come visit one week and spread my gospel far and wide.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-19410268123554498902012-04-27T08:39:39.537+01:002012-04-27T08:39:39.537+01:00Madame Arcati's influence spreads far and wide...Madame Arcati's influence spreads far and wide :<br />www.thesocialshuttkle.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-55483654819242936712012-04-26T20:06:09.335+01:002012-04-26T20:06:09.335+01:00Thank you Jude. Tell me your news when you have a ...Thank you Jude. Tell me your news when you have a moment.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-74848238778230922502012-04-26T19:51:22.900+01:002012-04-26T19:51:22.900+01:00Fabulous Madame, if I could count on anyone to see...Fabulous Madame, if I could count on anyone to see what a great woman Mary Beard is and how puny is her detractor, it would be you. Thank you for yet another wonderful blog post darling. XXX<br /><br />Anyone wishing to support Mary (and I believe Ill Gill's comments have really stung her) can do so on a blog post she made today here: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/04/meet-the-romans-aa-gill-and-lifes-little-ironies.html<br /><br />I've left her a comment today which said this: <br /><br />I think Miriam O'Reilly got it bang on in The Guardian in her article, "AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something": http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/25/aa-gill-jibes-mary-beard?CMP=twt_gu. He's a misogynist who refers to his girlfriend as "the blonde", which sums up where he's coming from. He's always been a boring chauvinist; his words mean nothing, and anyway, which critics are remembered hundreds of years after their deaths? Their names hardly roll off the tongue. "My work will be an ancient conifer. The clamour of my critics, a short-lived annual which will die like a weed." - one of my own rather arrogant quotes after having been lambasted and criticised for my looks and the shape of my breasts all over the internet when I started out as a writer. <br /><br />You are a fabulous, shining example of an Alpha female on the box who has the courage, like Germaine Greer and the lovely Sheila Hancock, to age as nature intended without resorting to surgery. Our society encourages women to disguise and hide the lines of wisdom they've earnt through a lifetime of experience and, often, child-rearing, with botox and surgery, making them look as vulnerable and naive as young women, thus being less of a threat to men. Very few of us women over 50 dare not to dye our hair (I dye mine blonde, I'm not as brave as you), wear make-up, or resort to surgery or botox (um no thanks to the latter two, ever.)<br /><br />I believe the world of broadcasting has been waiting for you, Mary, and you are going to lead the way for many middle-aged women in the future who deserve the right to be respected for the mature, experienced women they are without having to appear less threatening for men by camouflaging their wisdom. <br /><br />And as for what you look like, you look fabulous, free, wild, mischievous, intelligent, glowing with kindness and energy and radiating love and concern. These are the qualities which manifest themselves in true beauty, not a plastic mask. <br /><br />I know from experience how deeply these barbs by the terrified little boys posing as swaggering confident men can wound and hurt, but think beyond that to what you are doing for society. This is one small step for broadcasting, but one huge step for womankind. Bravo! *cue massive applause*<br /><br />...and here's an interview I did for a Sheffield Hallam University journalism student a couple of years ago for her dissertation "The Causes and Effects of Ageism on Women": http://into-view.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/interview-with-jude-calvert-toulmin.html<br /><br />Mary Beard is going to change the face of broadcasting forever.Jude Calvert-Toulminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112993362990797264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-28457561950852946542012-04-26T18:34:45.760+01:002012-04-26T18:34:45.760+01:00Dr Beard fascinates me. I watch her shows over and...Dr Beard fascinates me. I watch her shows over and over again on iPlayer and I've recorded them too. Her appearance is part of why I find her fascinating. To me she is beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-76164936341204444842012-04-26T15:56:03.216+01:002012-04-26T15:56:03.216+01:00Your own review is superior to Gill's. What a ...Your own review is superior to Gill's. What a pity you toil unpaid, Madame. But would you be free to write such a piece? Probably not.Alicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-34551215426487196552012-04-26T10:37:28.423+01:002012-04-26T10:37:28.423+01:00Never watched it; now, inspired by you, going stra...Never watched it; now, inspired by you, going straight to my iPlayer!Jonathan Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00889011672143943088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-27788295149888470032012-04-26T09:42:47.262+01:002012-04-26T09:42:47.262+01:00Fabulously put Madame. Mary Beard should be on the...Fabulously put Madame. Mary Beard should be on the box every night. I can't get enough of her!AAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-55816897171930164832012-04-26T00:43:49.202+01:002012-04-26T00:43:49.202+01:00Gill runs on emptyGill runs on emptyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-54143716593335055602012-04-26T00:43:05.347+01:002012-04-26T00:43:05.347+01:00Gill is a parasite and a boreGill is a parasite and a boreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-89137512562157473572012-04-25T19:23:11.484+01:002012-04-25T19:23:11.484+01:00Agreed. A A Gill to be reincarnated as a baboon.Agreed. A A Gill to be reincarnated as a baboon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com