Never been more serious when I say:
£5 Hancock
£10 Max Wall
£20 Terry Thomas
£50 Vesta Victoria (“Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow-wow”)
£100 John Inman (“I’m free!”)
and a newly minted million pound note for Diana Dors.
There's a lot to reflect on. Not in a crude psychological way but how deeply he was a man of ideas and how all his doubts and fears and idealisations and mistrust were inexerably tied up with and indisguishable from his politics.
The two crises of paranoia Renaud had are fascinating. First he goes to Soviet Union in a state of eurphoria only to crumble totally thinking the audience hated him. Only to repeat this expreience in Cuba later where the euphoria was out of control, then the total mental collapse
Actual Nazis mobilising and rioting on the streets of Southampton today.
The moustached man in this video is Luke Jahn of the National Rebirth Party, a neo-Nazi movement led by Alek Yerbury, an infamous Adolf Hitler cosplayer.
think the only thing i can stomach now is old, well made drama on You Tube: the experience is so different, so satisfying. Takes you far from the nausea of the modern world. N'importe où hors du monde.
This is frustrating. And he is saved by love. One of the very well drawn female characters. Apparently a "masterpiece" of the Edwardian theatre. You can see why. Harley Granville Barker quit London for Paris shortly after. As an sane person would.
Irons is a nice young Edwardian lad who discovers his charismatic father's finance firm is based on accepting investments from sweet little old ladies, offering them an annual income, then just spending the capital.
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People talk more in service of the plot that out of the depths of their character: but it characters are drawn in depth. There not much of a progression between Act 4 and 5 for Irons. ( Despite having insisted he will make a go of the whole fraudlent system, he gives up. )
Al Green and Chicago performing "Tired of Being Alone" at Caribou Ranch, Colorado, 1973.
Green was recording nearby when he heard the band rehearsing his song and walked in. Filmed for the Chicago in the Rockies TV special.