Talk:Lemmons

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Lemmons became the "most brilliantly creative household in Britain" in the spring of 1972, when it was home to the families of Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Cecil Day-Lewis?

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Sanderson[edit]

I corrected the misquote of the Sanderson slogan. It should read, 'Very Kingsley Amis, very Sanderson.' Copies of the infamous ad still come up on eBay, as here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KINGSLEY-AMIS-ELIZABETH-JANE-HOWARD-AUTHOR-WRITER-SANDERSON-FABRICS-ADVERT-1975-/362006398718 The article claims the ad only appeared in one women's magazine, but in fact it appeared in the 'colour supplements' of the weekend newspapers and other magazines, as one of a series which also included Peter Hall, Diana Rigg, Joan Bakewell and, for some reason, Hammond Innes. According to Artemis Cooper's life of Howard, the couple's literary agent AD Peters got them the ad contract because their accountant kept pressing the agency for ways to earn them more money. Howard disliked the Sanderson decor and the wallpaper was pasted on to false panels which were taken down as soon as the photo-shoot was over. The ads at once became a standing joke against the bourgeois taste of the period, perhaps because they showed supposedly classy people who obviously needed the money. I think Martin said somewhere that it wasn't really Kingsley's style at all and the ad marked the death-knell of the whole Lemmons menage. (Kingsley wasn't comfortable with that level of grandeur and Jane didn't like doing all the work to keep it up and neither of them could afford it.) According to Daniel Rosenthal's The National Theatre Story, Peter Hall, having been mocked in Clive James's Observer TV column for his 'regal' performance as presenter of LWT's arts show Aquarius ('Very Peter Hall, very Sandringham'), felt it was a 'hateful' mistake to have agreed to do the ad. Even ten years later, in Minder On The Orient Express (Euston Films for Thames TV, directed by Francis Megahy, script by Andrew Payne), when Dennis Waterman's Terry, incongruous in bow tie and tux for pre-dinner drinks on the luxury train, made some coarse remark, George Cole's Arthur retorted, 'Oh, very Terence McCann, very Orient Express.' Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Khamba Tendal: I have no idea how I managed to miss this, so I must apologize for the very late response. Thank you for the correction and the rest of the information. I'd like to find a copy of that poster to link to. I'll take a look at ebay later and see if that would be a stable link (I'm guessing not). SarahSV ^(talk) 04:57, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]