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By: Rants Are All The Rage « Touching From a Distance

Rants Are All The Rage « Touching From a Distance — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:36:16 +0000

[...] is not, of course, alone on the A-list in having so exploded. Jez Connolly wrote a post for TFAD collecting a couple of Orson Welles’s worst (by which we really … and Alec Baldwin achieved infamy for the below (and below the belt) rant that he directed, not at a [...]

By: Scott Jordan Harris

Scott Jordan Harris — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:01:10 +0000

That’s the perfect clip to post as a footnote to your piece Jez. The one I’m posting probably isn’t.

For completeness, I tried to find the Three of a Kind David Copperfield clip. I failed. But I did find footage of Orson with a different David Copperfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXjCfr5PA0

By: simon

simon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:52:38 +0000

Jez Thanks for that!

By: Jez Conolly

Jez Conolly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:06:04 +0000

In fact, here’s bit I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqBDv_9ar0

By: Jez Conolly

Jez Conolly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:04:00 +0000

Yes, my first memory of him is dressed in a black cape and broad brimmed hat swanning around Spain nattering on about sherry. People often recall the pisstake that David Copperfield did of him on Three Of A Kind in the early 80s, but I’d say the best is Michael Palin’s impression in the intro to Tomkinson’s School Days in the Ripping Yarns series, when he keeps trying to say the line “The follies of our youth are in retrospect glorious when compared to the follies of our old age.”

By: Scott Jordan Harris

Scott Jordan Harris — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:02:50 +0000

That’s exactly the story my dad tells!

Not to make you feel old or anything, Simon.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:43:16 +0000

The Frozen Peas clip is just so funny, Anyone else remember the ads he did for Domecq Sherry at Christmas. Mu mum used to say that he was once a very famous actor, I just thought he was a fat old hack & that she was taking the piss..Then I saw ‘Citizen Cane’!