[…]er : Yes. Oh...Lew Grade : You know.THIRD VOICE: Certainly you can.Lew Grade : And it's just...the thing is always the project. The key words are the basic idea. All you need is a basic idea. Like with this project that I am working on, all we had was the basic idea.Alan Sapper : Yes. But it is the […]
[…]ny things for me and everybody, tended to like what you just said, this sense of order. You really have to work to a certain time, which after all is basic to the theatre in a way. DM: Yes, it’s the feeling you have when you get to the middle of the last act. My God, you got a lift, you know? V[…]
[…] a scene in which he had to - he played the butler, and he had to put his head up the chimney, and a whole lot of soot came down on him, I mean that, basically, was the shot. And they were lining it up and his stand-in was told to be under the thing to do it, because they were going to have a trial […]
[…]s Elstree studio. And they had bought a book, Dusty Ermine, a play, which was a very mediocre thing and pretty dull I thought, although it had a nice basic idea of this ultra respectable family who have the one black sheep, the Uncle who had become a counterfeiter. And I was fascinated by skiing at […]
[…]. So, I wrote complaining bitterly. This is my memo dated eighth January 1952. “With regard to this proposed Goons television show, I've elicited the basic idea hailed from Michael Bentine, when he was offered his own single TV show. With regard to the three other goons, Spike Milligan tells me was […]
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