‘Has a Canadian ever made you laugh?’ Barry Humphries once quipped. There is an uproarious story in Pender’s biography about a television interview of Dame Edna’s with one of that country’s international stars, the assertively gay pop chanteuse k.d. lang: ‘I make no apologies,’ Edna begins the exchange, ‘for the ... coarse terminology that I’m going to use now. When (takes a deep breath) did you first know you were ... Canadian?’ ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au