Jack Rosenthal’s ‘About Face’ (or the one where Sarah Cracknell appears).
Mr Norman and I had an evening of Jack Rosenthal last night and during a play about a bag lady (Maureen Lipman is darkly brilliant as an incoherent woman haunted by random memories) from ‘about face’ from 1989, I made an observation.
I thought the woman holding a baby at the Natwest cash point machine (sorry, ’service till’, one of those ones that had the glass on the front) had Sarah Cracknell’s eyes, with Princess Diana’s hair. An odd combination but she definitely had the eyes. On watching the closing credits we noticed firstly that Derek Cracknell (her Father) was assistant director and on closer inspection, Sarah had a credit herself.
‘Well you’re no oil painting, are ya’?, crows Lipman. Thousands of men may beg to differ…
Well spotted. And that hair is so 80s, even though it is almost 1990 and she’s about to become ms indie-pin-up-girl.
And am I going crazy, but are you doing some major self-censoring round here and deleting your old posts?!
You’re not going mad, I am self-editing. I didn’t want to write about topical stuff really, things I’d just seen on tv, so I took them off, so, er, well spotted!
It’s the ‘Lady Di’ hair which is so cute isn’t it? How fashions change.