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  • Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
  • TV Movie | 90 min | Drama
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012)
TV Movie | 90 min | Drama

Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing...See moreSchoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty. Throughout the film commentary on events is provided by Everett's comic creations. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less
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Oct 3, 2012 (United Kingdom)

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27 cast members
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Oliver Lansley
Kenny Everett Kenny Everett   See fewer
Katherine Kelly
Lee Everett-Alkin Lee Everett-Alkin   See fewer
Perry Millward
Maurice Cole Maurice Cole   See fewer
Glenn Wild
Jacko Jacko   See fewer
Angela Lonsdale
Lily Cole Lily Cole   See fewer
Tony Pitts
Tom Cole Tom Cole   See fewer
Mike Burnside
BBC Commissionaire BBC Commissionaire   See fewer
James Wilby
Wilfred De'Ath Wilfred De'Ath   See fewer
Don Gallagher
BBC Senior Producer BBC Senior Producer   See fewer
Adam Garcia
Tony Windsor Tony Windsor   See fewer
Trevor White
Garner Ted Armstrong Garner Ted Armstrong   See fewer
Deirdre Mullins
BBC Receptionist BBC Receptionist   See fewer
Simon Callow
Dickie Attenborough Dickie Attenborough   See fewer
Alex Macqueen
TV Director (as Alex MacQueen) TV Director (as Alex MacQueen)   See fewer
Leon Ockenden
Philip Philip   See fewer
James Krishna Floyd
Freddie Mercury (as James Floyd) Freddie Mercury (as James Floyd)   See fewer
Jonathan Kerrigan
John Alkin John Alkin   See fewer
Andrew Greenough
Michael Winner Michael Winner   See fewer
Uriel Emil
Nikolai Nikolai   See fewer
Remi Black
Dancer Dancer   See fewer
Israel Donowa
Dancer Dancer   See fewer
Cristina Hoey
Dancer Dancer   See fewer
Anabel Kutay
Dancer Dancer   See fewer
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