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Article: Carry On Britain (nothing's changed)
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2000
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CULTURAL OBSESSIONS may come and go, but the Carry On films are
always with us. The latest flowering of our endless fondness comes in
the form of Cor Blimey, a two-hour comedy drama which tells the story
of the off-screen relationship between Barbara Windsor and Sid James.
Apparently, the world did not know about this relationship until
the day the police arrived at the Windsor home to inform Babs that
her husband, Ronnie Knight, had been arrested. But I didn't know
until I heard about this new film. Mind you, I didn't know I was a
lesbian until yesterday, when The Independent told me that an index
finger shorter than a ring finger was some kind of physical sign of
sapphism. My index finger ...