Shorts, fests, etc, 10/13.
For the London Times, Nicola Graydon talks with Tony Curtis about American Prince, a rollercoaster of a book in which he’s brutally frank about his childhood, his affairs, stardom, drug addiction, depression, women and sex. Lots and lots of sex. It’s a romp through Hollywood’s golden age, when Curtis, with his thick, black hair and cerulean eyes, practically invented celebrity as we know it.”
“I need to find a way to wind them all up and set them going in the first episode – in Dickens’s novel we don’t even meet Little Dorrit until around page 70. In fact, Dickens spends his first chapter in a dungeon in Marseille, with Rigaud, a French wife-murderer, and Cavalletto, an Italian smuggler, who have nothing to do with anything yet. How perverse is that?” Andrew Davies on the adaptation to be broadcast on BBC1 at the end of the month.
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