Ken Adam (KA)Art Director, Production DesignerBECTU No.416Interviewer: Rodney Giesler (RG)Date 12/03/1997 & 29/07/19973 Tapes 12/03/1997Side 100:00:00 – 00:29:30 Introductions; born 1921 in Berlin; upper middle class family, German-Jewish; his father had a sports store in Berlin and used to[…]
[…]em - especially at party conferences,especially when you see them on a social plane too, drink with them in the bar at the hotel atnight.Q What about international politicians?A Well, the only one I knew....Q Summit meetings?Α Well, not really, no, not a lot. That Tito, I got on well with Tito becau[…]
[…] of the old boys, and, you know, we did this fireman’s course, you know, the whole lot. I think that’s what saved the family’s life because the golden rule is you just get the hell out, shut the doors and get out and never go back. So we got out of that place and it went up like one of t[…]
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[…]e. Then the question was, and the NFFC was a sort of stormy situation.NFFC had a share in British Lion?They had, yes, there was something called ‘The Golden Share’.That's right.And I didn't, I'm not very good at this, the...But, but the thing was that, that you must know something about, because tha[…]
[…] not to be defeated by an aggressive audience. I also think the same thing applied to Shakespeare. Nobody seems to agree with me. I hope that the new Globe Theatre will try to recreate what was, and that is an audience of drunks, you know, carousing with their women and probably having sex in the on[…]
[…]ll the way I’m afraid. It is boring isn’t it.AL Not really, no.GH A lot of the people I have been attached with, with Dickie both of my Academy awards have been because of Dickie on Chorus Line and Ghandi. I had a wonderful evening – he was responsible for that – I was attending at the G[…]
