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SUPER, SUPER, SUPER!(David Frost)(Interview)(Biography)(The Talk of the Town)
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SUPER, SUPER, SUPER!(David Frost)(Interview)(Biography)(The Talk of the Town)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 20-OCT-03 Author: Friend, Tad
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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Nine of David Frost's fellow-students at Cambridge went on to become Cabinet ministers, but Frost took a different path. Over breakfast last week at the Regency Hotel, the sixty-four-year-old British television personality recalled one of his early comedy routines: "It had an unctuous commentator trying to maintain the tone of a royal broadcast while commentating on the fact that the royal barge was, in fact, sinking." He cleared his throat: " 'And the Queen, smiling radiantly, is swimming for her life. Her Majesty is wearing a pale-blue taffeta dress, with matching lace . . .' " When Frost laughs, his long, fine eyelashes wipe the lenses of his glasses...
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