The Savile Legacy
Jan. 12th, 2013 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloHow long before they start making movies about Jimmy Savile? What a great role it is, by the way. Actors are going to be queuing up to play him.
The further we move away from him the bigger he's going to loom. No other figure of the period tells us so much about ourselves.
The sleaziness of our morals, the tawdriness of our culture, the corruption of our politics.
Will historians of the future be talking about the Era of Savile, the Age of Savile, the Savile Years. You know, I think they will.
The further we move away from him the bigger he's going to loom. No other figure of the period tells us so much about ourselves.
The sleaziness of our morals, the tawdriness of our culture, the corruption of our politics.
Will historians of the future be talking about the Era of Savile, the Age of Savile, the Savile Years. You know, I think they will.
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Date: 2013-01-13 11:47 am (UTC)Savile was all over late 20th century Britain like a rash- a genuinely significant cultural figure who knew everybody and got himself honoured by the Crown and the Pope and the Royal Marines. Working class boy who made good, pioneering DJ, social climber, TV celeb, do-gooder- and monster. All our obsessions, all our narratives meet in him. he's the social historian's wet dream.
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:44 pm (UTC)..... I think you are so right!
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Date: 2013-01-13 05:27 pm (UTC)A report I read the other day said he went to the States before he was famous and managed to befriend Elvis Presley. That must have taken enormous chutzpah. I don't think it can have been easy to break into Elvis's charmed circle- especially when (like Savile) you were a talentless nobody.