Dame Edna Everage, the bedazzled, 6’3″ in stilettos violet-coiffed “gigastar,” who entertained millions over a seven-decade career on stage and screen, has died, along with her creator, Barry ...
Dame Edna Everage was to become an institution in Humphries’ adopted country (AP) Barry Humphries brought from Australia a biting humour that tied in with Britain’s 1960s satire boom. His “housewife ...
Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer. By Margalit Fox Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more. To be ...
Australian satirist Barry Humphries, known for his onstage and TV drag persona Edna Everage and for his character Sir Les Patterson, has died. He was 89. The BBC reported that Humphries had been in ...
He played the housewife from Melbourne on the stage, on television and in films for more than 60 years. "Hello, Possums!" By Rhett Bartlett Barry Humphries, the Australian entertainer whose ...
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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An Appraisal Audiences were eager to humbly suffer the stinging quips tossed out by the towering figure that was Barry Humphries’s creation. By Ben ...