scholes

I'll certainly go along with that Windthrop.
Jimmy has been telling the same hand-me-down-one-liners for the past 40 years.
He wasn't funny then and he isn't funny now.

faginsgirl

I saw an interview once with Barbara Windsor and she said Kenneth Williams was condesending and rotton to her since she was only a slip of a girl, she was pretty scared of him. Later of course they became the best of friends.

I have heard it said by many other actors that Robert De Niro is arrogant and hard to work with.

Also Steve McQueen I hear was arogant to the hilt when it came to the ladies who he worked with, he expected to snap his fingers and have them at his beck and call, that was in an interview with an acress who once knew him, cant remember who.

But hey, never met these people so can only go by what other people have said.

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SirOllyBolly

If its any consolation, Ollie Reed once threw up on him in a nightclub

From the autobiography of George MacDonald Faser:

"I gathered then that there was no love lost between him and McQueen, and this was confirmed by McQueen when I worked with him some months later on Taipan. There was a part which I thought Oliver would be right for, but Steve frowned and wrinkled his nose. "Ferdinand the Bull," he said. "You know why they call him that? Because he's always being put on his ass." Pause. "Matter of fact, I almost put him on his ass once myself."

"The idea of McQueen, who was fairly slight in build and of no more than middle height, putting that hulking mass of muscle* on any part of its anatomy, was not worthy of comment, so I didn't. I have since been told that the reason for their mutual dislike was that Oliver had thrown up over Steve during a meeting in London, which might account for it, but I suspect that even if Oliver's internal economy had been under control they would still have been poles apart, the quiet, plain-spoken, pretty egotistical American, and the ebullient, beautifully accented Englishman. Thinking of them together, I have no difficulty understanding the events of 1776."

* Oliver certainly had an impressive physique, but I was told that when he managed to get hold of the shirt worn by Errol Flynn in the 1937 version of The Prince and the Pauper, he found to his astonishment that it was too big for him.

faginsgirl

McQueen wouldn`t find the ladies wanting to drape themselves over him that night then

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Windthrop

Derek Bond touring the provinces in clapped-out thrillers in his later years showed much arrogance. Even in support roles he take a special bow for his 'public' leaving many in the audience simply mystified. In interviews he liked to give the impression that he he was touring for the audiences benefit and that he turned down lead roles in the west end to do the provinces. If you read his cv in the program he would try to have you believe that he was the greatest film-star of his generation.

That's the joke that killed the Music Hall

Marky B

Speaking of La Windsor (Barbara,not the Queen),I used to know someone who used to work at the Forum Theatre in Billingham,and she said Miss Windsor was a proper diva.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Moor Larkin

I've met and put up with quite a lot of arrogant people in my time. I always worry that in finding others arrogant, I may be displaying a certain arrogance myself........

I do think it important that talented people should be given grace to rise above certain day to day worries, at least sometimes. Our country is beset enough with the drudgery of equality as it is, without being able to step back and enjoy the genius and the tomfoolery of our betters......

Wasn't Ricky Gervais' Extras an 'expose' about this very trait? And who seems labelled one of most arrogant in other parts of this vast repository of knowledge that we call forum?

I'm all for arrogant behaviour so long as the only real victims are those of us who merely stand and stare........... I've got some sympathy for the guy making the sandwiches and serving the tea, but waiting on table in the local Indian on a saturday night probably exposes you to more arrogance than a dressing-room full of divas!



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Windthrop

I have heard a contradictory story about her at the Forum - she bought everyone drinks in the members bar. That said the staff might have been treated differently. Kate O'Mara rubbed people up the wrong way at Billingham Forum and her landlady in North Yorks.

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Freddie Freeloader

What an uplifting and enlightening thread.

faginsgirl

Yeah, but you gotta admit, being spewed on by Bill Sykes is quite a story !

I bet not many people can think of anything worse !

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dremble wedge

Ollie was some critic...

Wee Sonny MacGregor

Yep - what was that story Stanley Holloway used to tell about Rex Harrison being assaulted by some woman outside a theatre. Holloway commented "that's the first time a fan has hit the shit"!

penfold

I didn't realise that quote came from Victor....but I'm not surprised. If you've seen 'After The Fox' you come to cherish the idea - a bit like Roger Moore - that Victor spent an awful long time giving an awful number of people an awfully good time.....and took nothing, particularly themselves, seriously. Good for them both.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

batman

I have a very good biography of Randolph Scott and it is attributed to him in that.

I wish I had claws.

Windthrop

The provenance of bon mots is a difficult one. Angus Deyton once got a big laugh, and a number of papers used it as their quote of the week, when he said 'Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done'. He failed to attribute it to Ernie Kovacs.

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