{"id":1157,"date":"2010-06-09T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2010-06-09T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:14:10","slug":"fab-documentary-about-valentino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Fab Documentary about Valentino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 9th<\/sup> June 2010<\/p>\n

Do you know him? Minute, highly burnished dress designer?\u00a0 Nearly a new race as far as skin colour concerned. Harry Rollo, the impresario and performance artist, gave a perf on Sunday night (Prince Dmitri and I dashed back from Lady Newell\u2019s in the Porsche) to a world-famous audience in the Shoreditch neighbourhood. He stretched wires over water and rang bells, among other things. On Monday night, he texted, from La Residencia, Majorca as it happens: Watch this doc about Valentino on BBC4 at 9pm or die. The timing was perfect: I had been rather wondering: \u2018What next for a Poor Little Rich Gay?\u2019<\/p>\n

Still no word from Anthony Mottram. I\u2019m to be kept in Abu Ghraib for a while more.<\/p>\n

Harry says the audience at La Residencia (I mean, other guests) is ex-footballers\u2019 wives and their ex-footballers, min twenty years since the last match. Great mercy as means no Poor Little Rich Gays in sight.<\/p>\n

So no competition \u2013 or trouble.<\/p>\n

Of course the villa and hotel season is getting under way. Absolutely central to PLRG life. Robert Nevil boards tomorrow with Blanche Spain and Joshua Baring for three weeks in a fully-staffed luxe villa at Menton. The first of his three holidays this summer. He is absolute genius at getting into villa-life at the highest level. He and Sebastian Archer (still in New York for cosmetic treatment) once rose as high as Conde Nast<\/em> although there was sadly a death. \u00a0I am detained in the punishment cell for the Mottram-backed re-visit to the orphans in Bulgaria. Then he will be with me for an Umbrian villa experience in August (I haven\u2019t told you about that yet, have I?). RN will be suffering from appalling pre-boarding tension and anxiety about where the next meal is coming from while away from home \u2013 it all goes back to childhood.<\/p>\n

The Multis are at the Voile d\u2019Or, Cap Ferrat the last weekend of this month, by chance la meme moment que I will be at the Panoramic, Cap Ferrat for Ralph Kitto\u2019s 50th<\/sup> Birthday. In July I\u2019m at St Tropez in Virgil Grayson\u2019s house right on the sea, possibly to be joined by a very important historian of the Virgin, then I’m with Laura Malcolm and Matt Driver en Normandie for a het interlude.<\/p>\n

By the way there was a terrific huff and puff re: CGT (that\u2019s Capital Gains Tax) at Lady Newell and Elsa Hodgeman\u2019s glorious lunch on Sunday (exquisite Elizabethan manoir outside Oxford, parade of ducklings through the grounds). The new Gov are going to put it up. You\u2019ve probably heard. Matt Driver, husband of Laura Malcolm, the novelist, completely in favour. Why should those who produce pay more tax than those who merely own? He earns more than Smallmeal, head of landfill in this country, but is terribly strict on taxation. The Multis up in arms of course.\u00a0 High CGT will damage economy as a whole. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re right. I’ve had to pay Cap Gains once or twice. I do think low taxes is nice.<\/p>\n

Now, look, I\u2019ve veered off into hotels and taxation. No time to tell you about utterly brilliant doc on Valentino. Come back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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