English - Journalist | October 6, 1939 -
Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
Melvyn Bragg
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I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.
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The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
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I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.
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We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
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There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.
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What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.
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Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
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In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.
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Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.
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Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.
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There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
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