I often listen to the BBC Radio 4, from wherever I am in the world….. if I can stream it…I love it and it makes me feel at home again. This is not BBC World, which is more tailored to International listening and is drier and not so interesting to me. Radio 4 is…
I am writing this in Ventura, California, where I wait for a call for an interview, a part, a job….usual stance….head in the clouds, feet on the ground. In any case, whatever happens, I am happy to be here, staying in friend Rossi’s house, high on the cliffs looking out to the ocean. –…
Lunch with the grandchildren! ……..No….. this was just after lunch….. at a treat visit to the Apple store! Think they are highly representative of today’s youth and are already overtaking us in the understanding of modern technology! Just seen Phantom Thread, fascinating, imaginative with with terrific performances from Daniel Day-Lewis, pictured here(…
Just finished shooting a new short film… About Andy The story is of a woman incapacitated by an injury and the young caregiver who arrives to help! Events get interesting. All went very well, especially since we shot it in my house…a risky business at best. However that also went well and the Art…
First Blog of a new Year….2018….very happy to still be here! Life ….. wonderful, exciting…. so full of possibilities, new adventures, new people…..new things to learn. Our world is changing very quickly..largely due to technology. I am getting ready to shoot a new short… About Andy…….we shoot this coming weekend…..excited…… it is a sort of…
Continuing memories of leading men….and of course leading ladies, how could I leave out Katharine Hepburn and the three I started with…..my first job as Assistant Stage Manager (I wasn’t very good!) and understudy(I was good at that) to the juvenile lead in Toys in the Attic by Lilian Hellman. You may never have…
My childhood was a strange dichotomy. I grew up with two parents who hated each other, should never have got married and who spent my childhood and some of my adult life at war each other. All this could and possibly should have crushed my spirit, but it didn’t. I think the main reason…
Being on Facebook is nice and often fun and a useful, slightly lazy way of keeping up with friends…seeing new pictures etc. I suspect that this is what Mark Zuckerberg had in mind when he created Facebook and did not give much thought to its potential sinister aspects. Fans are in touch and that is…
Despite recent depressing reports about bad behaviour in show biz, I have been lucky in meeting so many of the good ones. And there are many…… we are not all harassing monsters, nor are we all predatory people trying to claim five minutes of fame ….. maybe compensation…sad though the stories are….. I do not…
Ok ….time to comment on the sorry Harvey Weinstein situation. To start….I am very sorry for the poor people who have suffered at the hands of this awful man. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour, but how did a man with such monstrous habits, become one of the strongest supporters of the…
