"So sorry, Mr Frost, it's caviar again." - delish article about today's memorial

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/13/david-frost-memorial-stars
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Sir David Frost pulled off his last big showbusiness coup on Thursday, albeit posthumously, when a memorial plaque to the broadcaster's 50-year career in television was unveiled in the floor of Westminster Abbey in the presence of the Prince of Wales and 2,000 other members of the Frostie fan club.

Not bad for a Methodist minister's son from Kent who never slept a night away from home or touched alcohol until he went to Cambridge. As Greg Dyke, Frost's old boss at both TV-am and the BBC, observed in his address from the pulpit, he made up for it afterwards. "White wine is a non-alcoholic drink," was a Frost saying.

Frost started when he was 23 and he was still on air somewhere until close to his fatal heart attack at 74 on a cruise liner last August. At one particularly frenetic stage he was doing five shows a week in New York and three in London. No wonder, Dyke recalled, that a cabin attendant on his beloved Concorde once said: "So sorry, Mr Frost, it's caviar again." Usually his shows' titles included his own name: it made it harder to sack him.

Yet Dyke and others – speakers ranged from Tony Hall, the current BBC DG, Joanna Lumley, Ronnie Corbett and Michael Parkinson to David Owen and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor – insisted in various ways that the restless Stakhanovite was most proud of his family and most concerned to be "half as good a dad" as his own father. Miles, Wilf and George, Frost's three sons by Carina Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk, pitched in too, with a homemade poem in George's case.

[Scuba]

1. Frost was the guy who got me interested in politics ...

Thanks for posting, malaise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_the_Week_That_Was

That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, was a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost. An American version by the same name aired on NBC from 1964 to 1965, also featuring Frost.
The programme is considered a significant element of the satire boom in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. It broke ground in comedy through lampooning the establishment and political figures. Its broadcast coincided with coverage of the politically charged Profumo affair and John Profumo, the politician at the centre of the affair, became a target for derision. TW3 was first broadcast on Saturday 24 November 1962.