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...Clubland, in which Brenda Blethyn, 60, plays a raucous comedian, to Slipstream, the directorial debut of Anthony Hopkins, 69, to King of California, in which Michael Douglas, 62, is a man just released from a mental hospital, and even to the Apollo space mission documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, which had Buzz Aldrin, 77, cruising the streets of Park City, some of the biggest stars of the youth-obsessed festival were 60-plus. Perhaps Hollywood is finally catching on that many actors don't peak until their third...
...imagine I'll ever forget, in The Shadow of the Sun, an account of sharing space with a furious cobra, or, in Another Day of Life, his lonely admission of dependency on daily telex connections with Warsaw, when he "felt like a wanderer in the desert who catches sight of a spring." And there are lines that resonate today, some of which I found last night flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most...
...life and relationships, bonds he'd formed, not easily, over many years with many people. That he was dying was inescapable, though. Pretending otherwise, when he never did, would have been inappropriate. I chose to read from Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist and author who was for decades the sole third-world correspondent for a Polish news agency. As it happened, I read too long from the former and had to forego the latter, which I regret. The passage I'd selected was the first...
...sensible, moderate center-right party that stands for that mixture of enterprise and compassion and the Conservative Party should be that party in Scotland. And we haven't been but we've ought to be. So we're in Aberdeen and going to Edinburgh. I'm bringing the whole shadow cabinet to Edinburgh ? no party leader of any party has ever done that as far as I can see. [Gestures at David Mundell, sitting at the next table.] I mean David is my shadow Secretary of state for Scotland, so he's focused on Scotland, but it means...
...interview is interrupted again. A final, truncated portion is conducted on a brief car journey to the shadow cabinet meeting in Edinburgh...