Slim De Grey brought smiles when life was a struggle
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Flashback to Variety Today 1992
By VALERIE JONES
IT'S hard to believe there could possibly have been a `funny side' to life as an inmate of Singapore's notorious Changi Prison under Japanese rule during World War II. But an Australian entertainer who was there at the time is about to assure the world there was.
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Variety Today 1996
By Shirley Broun
WHEN the devil (alias Slim De Grey) arrived to host Syd Heylen's Celebrity Roast at Dracula's on the Queensland Gold Coast recently, guests knew they were in for a `hot' time. But not near as warm as the man in the `hot seat', the much loved A Country Practice favourite, Syd `Cookie' Heylen.
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January 15, 2013
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