I went to see ‘The Greatest Dancer’ when it was filmed in Birmingham. And they announced the show’s judges’ names and then Curtis’ name. The crowd went wild.
I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It’s been a slow burn, which doesn’t seem to have gone out.
During therapy I have realised that my work ethic comes from my mum, Emma. She used to work two or three jobs at a time to keep food on the table in our council flat in Birmingham. She taught me to stay disciplined, to go to Sunday school, all those things.
I admire Tom Ades: he’s a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
When I started my undergraduate course at Birmingham University, as a Jewish student it was a natural step to join the Union of Jewish Students (UJS).
My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don’t think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don’t think that gender applies to them: that it’s a subject for girls.
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.
I love Birmingham, Michigan. It’s lovely – you know, it’s very similar to the Hamptons.
I love my home state and my hometown. I’m so grateful to Birmingham and Alabama for what it made me.
I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.
I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain.
The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
The second gig I did was New Year’s Eve at the Birmingham Anglers Club, and that started with booing.
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