Ken Russell's phallic farce starring Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi is drearily sexist, accidentally absurd and undeniably a stinker. But its defiant disrespect for plot and taste win me over
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There are very few people of whom it can be said that taking part in Celebrity Big Brother was by no means the least dignified moment in their career. But equally, very few people can claim responsibility for something as utterly strange as The Lair of the White Worm.
Definitively announcing Ken Russell's descent from Oscar-nominated if wayward British film stalwart to national oddity, Lair arrived in 1988, almost 20 years before he spent a week looking slightly bewildered in Elstree alongside Jade Goody and H out of Steps. Reported by guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago.
More from My guilty pleasure
There are very few people of whom it can be said that taking part in Celebrity Big Brother was by no means the least dignified moment in their career. But equally, very few people can claim responsibility for something as utterly strange as The Lair of the White Worm.
Definitively announcing Ken Russell's descent from Oscar-nominated if wayward British film stalwart to national oddity, Lair arrived in 1988, almost 20 years before he spent a week looking slightly bewildered in Elstree alongside Jade Goody and H out of Steps. Reported by guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago.