WE asked for your Glasgow Empire stories and Jim Montgomery in Peebles tells us: "My friend the late Frank Gordon made kilts and jackets for the great and good of the entertainment world in Glasgow and beyond, including Jimmy Logan, Ricky Fulton, and Bill McCue, but he reckoned his greatest claim to fame was making a kilt when Roy Rogers appeared at the Empire - not for Roy, but for Trigger his horse."
SCOTTISH celebrities have contributed to the new coffee-table book, My Scotland by its Famous Sons and Daughters, released this week for charity. In it impersonator Rory Bremner talks about playing golf at St Andrews where he hit the ball into a huge gorse bush. His impassive caddy remarked: "Ye could wrap that up in bacon, sir, and Lassie’d no find it.”
WE sneak back in to audience questions as Jim Morrison tells us: "On a cruise a few years ago we had on board the actress Shirley Anne Field who gave a talk of her life as a film star, and then asked if anyone had any questions. After a pause a large Scouse chap put his hand up, 'Have you ever had a face lift?' 'No', replied Shirley 'But I can give you the address of a place that does them if you want'."
THE Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum will feature on the BBC4 series Quizeum tonight when guests answer questions on local objects. Lars Tharp of Antiques Roadshow and art historian Dr Janina Ramirez travelled through to Stirling together on the train from Glasgow. Lars noticed that Janina was carrying a copy of 'A History of Stirling in 100 Objects', written by Smith Museum director Elspeth King.
Lars guessed correctly that Janina, who would be on the opposite team, was planning to mug up before the afternoon's recording - so he kept her engaged in conversation all the way to Stirling...
NAMES continued. Norrie Christie still keeps the business card of salesman TS Aman who worked for Mars when Norrie was working in Qatar in the Middle East. It always made Norrie smile when a colleague answered the phone and would shout across: "It's Aman from Mars calling for you."
STV's Holyrood editor Colin Mackay, who MC'd The Herald's Politician of the Year awards, revealed to the audience in his review of the year: "When Nicola Sturgeon met the Queen as First Minster for the first time at Buckingham Palace last December there was some discussion over whether she should curtsy or not. Nicola said just please yourself."
And on the vexed question of another referendum on independence, Colin explained: "In her conference speech Nicola said we will have to wait until something significant has changed before having another referendum. Given the age profile of No voters last time, she might mean a couple of really bad winters."
TALKING of Nicola we mention the innocuous recordings she chose on Desert Island discs last week and asked for more apposite records for politicians. Among the suggestions:
*Send in the Clowns by Judy Collins (James Gracie).
*Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? by the Clash (David McCall).
*Crazy by Patsy Cline (Russell Smith).
OUR tales of Partick Thistle attracting students as fans remind Jim Mackay: "At a game against Gretna a few years ago, the referee was giving Thistle nothing from a Jags fans points of view. Late in the second half he awarded Thistle a free kick to a round of sarcastic applause from the Maryhill supporters. As the clapping subsided a rather well-spoken Jags fan called out, 'hey linesman, that's irony by the way!' The previously stoic official almost collapsed with laughter."
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