"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, August 22, 2011
Follow-up to Monday movie
This has nothing to do with Stagecoach, but in the context of actors and acting, Mark Steyn has written an interesting piece on the late Sir Alec Guinness.
I knew the miniseries of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was going to be good the minute I watched Guiness's club scene in the first episode. His host is prattling on condescendingly to this anonymous little civil servant George Smiley who is nodding along obsequiously... and then his host mentions his estranged wife and without moving a muscle Guinness is the scariest old bastard you ever laid eyes on.
Just read Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (which has great insight into 19th century British politics).
Saw online that Guinness was a Trollope fan, 'who never travelled without a Trollope novel'. For me, this gives insight to the mind behind that inscrutable face.
I knew the miniseries of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was going to be good the minute I watched Guiness's club scene in the first episode. His host is prattling on condescendingly to this anonymous little civil servant George Smiley who is nodding along obsequiously... and then his host mentions his estranged wife and without moving a muscle Guinness is the scariest old bastard you ever laid eyes on.
ReplyDeleteI remember the very scene! Guinness could work wonders with just a look.
ReplyDeleteAlso: http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4382/28/
ReplyDeleteCheers
Just read Anthony Trollope's Phineas Finn (which has great insight into 19th century British politics).
ReplyDeleteSaw online that Guinness was a Trollope fan, 'who never travelled without a Trollope novel'. For me, this gives insight to the mind behind that inscrutable face.