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The best day of the year

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Treat Yo' Self Week

As you would no doubt be aware (and if you’re not, thanks for the support but bye Felicia), this Tuesday we will be celebrating the best day of the year.

No, you have not been blackout drunk for two and a half months (Christmas isn’t a day, it is a season), we are of course referring to Treat Yo’ Self Day.

Annelie and I initially invented the day after watching the episode of Parks and Recreation, and jumping in the time machine, getting a job as staff writers of the acclaimed sitcom and pitching the idea moments before the actual genius.

How do we top fragrances, massages, fine leather goods and the shoes Jaden Smith wears in the soon to be green-lit Hitch 2: Son of a Hitch?

Oh, just you wait …

Picture source: NBC.

 

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This is what dreams are made of

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Good news!

Just got off the phone from our dear friend Hiz – no, not future POTUS Hiz, but the Hiz with one L aka Hilary Duff.

She was all like, “hey now, hey now! I need to come over for a catch-up, it has been so long.”

Obvs our answer was sure, please hurry. I mean, this is what dreams are made of!

What do me make for America’s sweetheart aka TV and film’s erstwhile Lizzie McGuire aka the greatest singer/actress to ever walk the planet?

Picture source: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP.

 

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What you want, baby he got

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It has been a year since we documented our first celebrity catch-up and we are feeling all nostalgic.

Despite the ups and downs, the stints in rehab and jail and grifting Hollywood’s elite in pursuit of fame, fortune and our own brand of happiness, we have managed to make some truly beautiful friendships.

Our dear friend Otis Redding may have died a very long time ago, but he is still one of the people we are closest too.

He would have recently celebrated his 74th birthday had he not been tragically taken from us, so felt we should travel back in time and celebrate with him.

What says happy birthday, we miss you and don’t trust planes?

Picture source: AP Photo.

 

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Maybe This Time

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I don’t know what it is, but spring has sprung and it seems all of our not so spring-chicken friends are coming out of the woodwork. And obviously, we could not be happier!

We first met our close friend Liza through her mother, Judy who we befriended her after an aggressive sabotage campaign on the set of The Wizard Of Oz (I played the suicide munchkin, obviously), which led to a joint addiction to barbiturates which we continued after little Liza was born (the friendship also led to the coining of the term, Friend of Dorothy).

Always from a young age, Liza knew how to command both a room and a gay man’s heart; I took her on as my protege (she was starved of talented creatives to look up to) and commenced her on the path of craving attention and adoration, as well as the need for pain meds from the rigorous dance training.

Liza could smell the fame we are currently experiencing, and of course, wanted in. What says come to our kitchen slash cabaret, old chum? Come to our kitchen slash cabaret.

Picture source: Screen-cap from Arrested Development.

 

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Islands in the Stream …

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The most accurate and important phrase ever uttered in the universe, ever, comes from our dear friend Dolly Parton.

She wrote the aforementioned phrase “it’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world” about us as a powerful trio, but I think it is an important thing for aspirational, ordinary people to also remember.

The struggle is real.

We don’t like to go more than a couple of months without catching up as a group, but this is our first time hosting Dolly since the launch of this anthropological endeavour last year. (She normally flies us out to hang in her Tennessee Mountain Home and party in Dollywood).

Since this is the first time we will be documenting our beautiful friendship, we really need to get this right. What says I will always love you not just 9 to 5, always, and baby I’m burning when you come in here lookin’ like that in your coat of many colours with Applejack?

Picture source: Screen-cap from 9 to 5.

 

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Cuchi-Cuchi

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While you could be forgiven for thinking that we are masterful at lying about our age thanks to our dear friend Fran Drescher-Fine, you are completely wrong.

Multi-named-mononym, Flamenco Goddess and dream Guardian Angel, Charo, is the Queen of birthdate ambiguity and is the person that has kept us both simultaneously getting the aged-pension and children’s discounts.

We first met Chars in the 60s on The Ed Sullivan Show when the three of us were aged 22, 6, 97, 50, 64 (inspiring The Beatles’ song), 13, 33 and 100, semi-respectively. Having a musical history, with Annelie also playing the flamenco guitar and I being skilled at both the jazz and skin flutes, we formed a quick bond.

Charo is dropping by to celebrate her 74th and 32nd birthdays. What says celebration … other than a reunion cruise on The Love Boat, obviously?

Picture source: Unknown, but it lives in smokin’ perpetuity.

 

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The long and winding Strode

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We got the fright of our lives over the weekend.

You see our dear friend and original Scream Queen, Jamie Lee Curtis, loves nothing more than to play pranks on her closest friends but this time she went further than we did when we sent her anthrax in the mail to scare her.

She paid someone to call us, her assistant or something, to arrange an unpublicised catch-up. Obviously it was a joke, I mean yoghurt and a sure-to-be-a-hit-TV-show don’t sell themselves!

What says it is time to party, we miss you and don’t be alarmed if we pay for someone to stalk you in the basement when you’re over?

Picture source: Screen-cap from Halloween.

 

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Cheeks to cheeks

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I am sick with nerves.

We have been feuding with Tony Bennett for the past four years after he chose to duet on The Lady is a Tramp with Lady Gaga over us – I mean, who is trampier than us?!

After purchasing their album last year to create a smear campaign / art installation, we realised that their collaboration wasn’t as horrid as we first thought and started to look for a way to mend our six-decade friendship.

It has taken eight months but we finally worked up the courage to apologise and Tony is graciously dropping by to reconnect. What says sorry for being offended you took up with that charlatan who may not be as bad as we first thought?

Picture source: Greg Allen / Invision / AP.

 

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Someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you

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It is a little known fact that some of the most seminal films of our time, were actually based on our lives.

We first met our friend and Jazz in Your Face member, Gina Gershon, on the set of one such film, Pretty in Pink – I used to make a living in Hollywood in the late 70s using my Janome to turn perfectly nice dresses into complete messes, although I did it ironically, as art.

Bonding over our love of sexualised dance, we formed a quick friendship with Giny and built our dance portfolio until we were noticed by the creators of Showgirls who wanted to make a film on our lives. You do not want to know how many flights of stairs were utilised to secure our fame.

Giny is in town wanting to work on some new routines for Jazz in Your Face with the hope it could lead to a reboot-crossover film between Showgirls and Magic Mike. What says let’s shake our groove things and get us show girls back on the road?

Picture source: DVT/Star Max/FilmMagic.

 

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Once a carnie, always a carnie

Carnival Week, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

As you’ve come to learn, Annelie and I are passionate supporters of all things cultural; I would go as far as to say that we are probably the foremost cultural experts in the country. No, the world.

You would also be aware that the best Carnival / Exhibition / Show / County Fair in the world according to its sponsors, the Ekka aka the Royal Queensland Show, is currently on and we felt it was our duty to get into the spirit and celebrate the important parts of the show.

No, not the cultural displays. Not the showbags, not the competitions, not the rides..the food.

Fun fact, but Annelie and I spent a few years manning the Tilt-A-Whirl at a carnival in beautiful Mount Rose, Minnesota until we left following an unplanned pregnancy leading to the birth of my daughter who grew up to inspire Drop Dead Gorgeous.

While we left town and eventually our calling, the carnie spirit has always remained in our blood so we decided to invite some of our closest celebrity friends over to get in on the refined culinary fun.

Welcome to Carnival Week!

Picture source: FOX.

 

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