[…]erritory - these people are coming to come here with a camera crew, going to make a film - wonderful! And the only theatres they did were city centre news cinemas like the Tatlers and Classics in Marylebone as they used to be and the adverts would be shown ten times a day perhaps. Very cleverly, the[…]
[…], I had done The Knack, Morgan, Mademoiselle and half of Sailor From Gibraltar on the trot and the only thing I was faintly interested in was all the news of Antonioni coming to London. 00:26:20 – 00:45:50JR: And the telephone rang one day and it was Assheton Gorton who said “Listen, I am worki[…]
[…]od or at Tennant brother, which was, yeah, when they did all recording. And he liked it, you know, he thought the score was good, which was very good news for me, because it must have been a year or so after that this guy had written the script for Whirlpool. Larry Buckman became the head of product[…]
[…]hat out for a year and I used to, in the afternoons, I used to occasionally pop into all the comedy, cartoon cinemas around and I used to see all the newsreels and Laurel and Hardy and all those sort of things, and the early cartoons. So that’s what I used to do, you know. It was quite a[…]
[…]n making encouraging noises and things, so they said, "Okay, let's go to Alex." So they went up South Street to see J. Arthur, and just break the bad news to him, because they'd always had a very pleasant relationship with him. And he was sitting in this vast office in South Street and sitting in th[…]
[…]r one, and, and then came the time when it was as though it was thrown open to bidders who would have British Lion. And there used to be a sort of, a newstory in the paper every day, you know, ‘Sidney Box to get British Lion’. Andvirtually every name you care to mention was going to buy British Lion[…]
[…]e, ‘I’ve got a wonderful new job, they’re talking me off this television quiz business’, etc, etc. So I said, ‘Oh, how marvellous, that is good news’, you know. And actually everything worked out alright because then Francis left the Encyclopaedia Britannica and went back to archaeology […]
