Rock Folly ruined by review that gave her the bum s rush: She was the darling of 70s TV. but then Charlotte Cornwell, who has died aged 71, took on a vicious critic. She won - but ended up losing her home and having a breakdown
Actress Charlotte Cornwell died at the age of 71 following a battle with cancer
For those of certain age, first thing that springs to mind about her is her bottom
Sunday People’s TV reviewer Nina Myskow wrote controversial review about her
Charlotte claimed the review was a ‘vulgar and vindictive personal attack’
Week-long trial, jury found in Charlotte’s favour and awarded £10,000 damages
Vanessa Redgrave Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave.
Personal
Birth place: London, England
Marriage: Tony Richardson (April 29, 1962-April 28, 1967, divorced)
Children: with Franco Nero: Carlo Gabriel (September 16, 1969); with Tony Richardson: Joely (January 9, 1965), Natasha (May 11, 1963-March 18, 2009)
Education: Attended Central School of Speech and Drama in London, 1955-1957
Other Facts
Many members of the Redgrave family are/were actors, including her grandparents, parents, brother Corin, niece Jemma, sister Lynn, and daughters Natasha and Joely.
Her London stage debut and her first film role were both opposite her father, Sir Michael Redgrave.
She has worked professionally with all three of her children, her parents, siblings and niece.
Letters
Abolish gender
Comrade Paul Demarty’s article was a welcome breath of fresh air (‘Getting out of the culture wars’, December 10). As a 19-year-old communist, my entire
political life has existed under the shadow of identity politics and the question of gender. It was therefore extremely uplifting to read an analysis identical to the one I have been putting forward to various comrades at the last two Communist Universities: destroy the social construct of gender.
It has always surprised me how some veteran comrades fall into the trap of reaction - on both sides of the current debate - rather than adopting a historical, and indeed Marxist, understanding of gender. Whilst the content of its function in a society may necessarily stay the same, the form it takes is socially malleable. Much like class, gender is not necessary for society - let alone human existence. By altering its form and resolving its contradictions, the social foundations of its content disappear and
Workers Revolutionary Party
WHEN the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK in March, and the Tory government was forced to order the first national lockdown, Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak made a temporary £20 a week increase in Universal Credit for the thousands of new claimants thrown out of work.
This increase is due to end in April.
Even this temporary increase was completely inadequate to protect the unemployed and low paid workers forced onto Universal Credit.
Unemployment benefits for workers before the crisis struck were around 34% of average income â less than at any time since the creation of the Welfare State in 1948, according to figures produced by the New Economics Foundation.