Two articles linked to 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang':<P><B>Lifestyle: I need new mountains to climb</B><BR>She is 75 and has had two hip replacements. But nothing will stop the choreographer and dancer Gillian Lynne, whose latest musical opens tonight. Valerie Grove interviews the remarkable Gillian Lynne for The Times.<BR> <BR> <BR>While sitting talking in the bar of the London Palladium, Gillian Lynne effortlessly extends her right leg in the air beyond her right ear; followed by her left, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. <BR>I am all admiration. This woman opposite me is 75, and has two new hips. “Yes — but see how flexible they are.” Lynne is astonishing. Every blue-jeaned step she takes, every turn of her gamine head, every gesture has the agility of a gymnast. The cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which opens tonight, revere her. She is a walking advertisement for the benefits of seven decades of non-stop dancing. Narrow hips, flat stomach, tiny bottom. She starts out with natural advantages: good bones, slender limbs, a certain native lithe grace. I wondered how she discovered that she needed the new hips. <P><A HREF="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-7-268015,00.html" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><P>************************************<P>A different take on London's musicals:<P><B>In the enemy camp</B><BR>by Tim Teeman in The Times<BR>As Chitty Chitty Bang Bang lands in the West End, our critic explains why not all gay men adore camp classics Gay bad. <BR> <BR> <BR>My friend Kenny slammed on the brakes, bringing our car to a dead halt. “That’s it. The last straw,” he seethed. I had been humming along to a Kylie Minogue song, in which I thought she had been singing, rather radically, “No disco, no disco, no disco needs you!” Given its swooping chords and over-orchestration the track was, even for Queen Kylie, heavily aimed at homosexuals. Excellent, I thought: Kylie’s coming out against brain-dead gay disco culture! <P>Kenny looked murderous. “Why have you never been able to get song lyrics right? She’s singing ‘Your disco. Your disco. Your disco needs you!’” So Kylie’s not dissing dreary gay disco bunnies, I asked? <P><A HREF="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-47-267123,00.html" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><P>
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