T.S. Eliot reads to kill
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posted by critical practice at 9:10 am
Friday, March 03, 2006
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html
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T S Eliot and the taxi driver
My husband, T.S. Eliot, loved to recount how late one evening he stopped a taxi. As he got in, the driver said: "You're T.S. Eliot." When asked how he knew, he replied: "Ah, I've got an eye for a celebrity. Only the other evening I picked up Bertrand Russell, and I said to him: 'Well, Lord Russell, what's it all about?,' and, do you know, he couldn't tell me."
* Eliot, Valerie. Letter to The Times, London,1970.
* Quoted in: Metcalf, Fred, compiler. Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1986).
In the film 'Prick Up Your Ears' which is based on the book about Joe Orton by John Lahr (Screenplay by Alan Bennett). Joe Orton and his In the film 'Prick Up Your Ears' which is based on the book about Joe Orton by John Lahr (Screenplay by Alan Bennett). Joe Orton and his lover/writing partner Kenneth Halliwell go to the headquarters of a publishing company where T.S. Elliot sits on the board of directors, to have their novel turned down, but there is a consolation prize –
Kenneth Halliwell: At least you can say you've sat in the same chair as T.S. Eliot.
Joe Orton: Yes, I'm never going to wipe my bum again.
lover/writting partner Kenneth Halliwell go to the headquarters of a publishing company where T.S. Elliot sits on the board of directors, to have their novel turned down, but there is a consalletion prize –
Kenneth Halliwell: At least you can say you've sat in the same chair as T.S. Eliot.
Joe Orton: Yes, I'm never going to wipe my bum again.
When i was 10 my dad took me and my sisters to a cave in suffolk where T. S. Eliot has carved his name in the soft sand stone wall allong with lots of other un-famous people. I wasn't impressed. All i knew of him was old possums book of practical cats, and even then i only really knew the musical. Dad took a photograph of us crouching in the cave, which was small, and then we jumped around in the river and made dams.
Ive come across a copy of 'MacGowran Speaking Beckett' which was produced under the personal supervision of Samuel Beckett who is even credited as playing the gong.
Its well worth a listen, there are bits from Molloy, Malone Dies, Endgame, and from an Abandoned Work...
perhaps you could get a link to a copy of it?
Credited for playing the gong, eh? So that's where Simon Cowell got the idea from.
There is a MacGowan one here among other stuff: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/index.html
and some BBC and assorted ones here:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/beckett.html
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