{"id":2041,"date":"2011-03-05T19:32:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2011-03-05T19:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T19:32:42","slug":"thank-the-lord-for-another-poor-little-rich-gay-landmark-birthday-harry-rollo%e2%80%99s-40th-what-you-can-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Thank the Lord for Another Poor Little Rich Gay Landmark Birthday! Harry Rollo\u2019s 40th What You Can Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 5th<\/sup> March 2011<\/p>\n

Poor Little Rich Gay landmark birthdays must be ludicrous, haunted by beauty and rich with meaning. Harry Rollo is the world-class performance artist and impresario, who arcs with ease from moisturiser to performance art. Do you know the performance art? For example, women in Issey Miyake accordion pleating fail to boil eggs in glass saucepans above while below construction workers underwater drill and bubble. Are they beauty or Hell? Their blue water through tubes is in the saucepans. Blue steam arises. The accordion pleating also fails. \u00a0It is art as well as music and poetry and sculpture: hard and rare, but huge. The newspapers are agog every time it is given.<\/p>\n

For his 40th<\/sup> Birthday, on Tuesday, Harry Rollo switched the Thames to champagne (\u2018Sweet Thames run softly until I end my song\u2019). On a vast barque in the big Spring dark a compact gathering of superbs floated downstream, some reputable, some not. Oh the range! Not all household names, you know, but none not exceptional. Had we been rammed by a slag-ship what a loss of talent! – Reggie Cresswell, the Ghanaian ceramicist of world repute, Rufus Pitman, the novelist and critic (new work forthcoming: brilliant), Miss Lamore Cellina, in rubber corset (she\u2019s done her share of TV competition judging, make no mistake, as well as more delicate arts), Ned Boule, the percussionist, with new young pierced partner from Berlin via Bratislava, Harry\u2019s Aunt Birda, who at once declared war on the music. And on the banquette, which ran down the side of the state room, a huge Name, accompanied by younger perfectly-formed blond friend, in some isolation. \u2018What do we do about the Name?\u2019 Miss Lamore enquired. \u2018Fifteen years ago I\u2019d have imposed. Now I\u2019m not so sure.\u2019 The Name did not move. I discovered later from his Twittering that he was on pills and had only gained this country from afar that day. Groups of concentrated greatness were brought to the Name. They seemed to come in waves. Next time you looked, they\u2019d been replaced. The Name brought out a phone and was showing it.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on board, the talk was high in between what was really a whole supper delivered in sections in small bowls: a little spag with salmon, a cottage pie, a quiche and one with a poached egg that proved elusive: \u2018I want the one with the egg,\u2019 guests cried before resuming their topics: competitions to be judged. One had three competitions to judge for a national newspaper. I covered Monet and some poets, brainy for me.<\/p>\n

I think we were all in our prime. I\u2019ve only recently taken to having topics at a party. For years I relied on hysteria. I\u2019m rather nifty with my topics \u2013 I adjust them to suit the person I\u2019m speaking to or even whisk them up on the spur of the moment. Poor Little Rich Gays are strange: raving egomaniacs of course but not bores \u2013 they actually ask questions and take an interest in others. Can you imagine? I never used to bother nor remember anything about anybody; such a grind, so unrewarding. Much better to do a set-piece about Grace Monaco. But now I\u2019m probing away all the time. I love it.<\/p>\n

So we docked and our floating time was over. We removed to Harry\u2019s apartment which is practically on the stage of a substantial place of entertainment. There Harry offered cake, opened his presents (La Prairie items and five tubes of Full Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate by Kielh \u2013 not needed by recipient, yet) and demonstrated his unique-edition Nikes (see graph below) while his father explained to me the important pictures on the walls. Later I learned something new about Botox: the effect doesn\u2019t wear off as commonly supposed. You revert to the condition you were in when injected and remain there for good.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that marvellous? There was quite a lot of worry about Zsa Zsa Gabor\u2019s other leg, though.<\/p>\n

Poor Little Rich Gays were poised and lived up to the greatness of the occasion – Harry Rollo’s 40th Birthday<\/p>\n

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