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| Above: Two British actors no longer with us, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris, share a few anecdotes on The Michael Parkinson show back in 1973. Oliver Reed conveys a story on how George Bernard Shaw was propositioned by a young socialite at a cocktail party. While Richard Harris reflects back to the time on the set of that great troubled movie Mutiny on the Bounty and how the star of the film Marlon Brando had problems remembering his lines. I suppose for some fans of vintage tv it must seem strange seeing Oliver Reed completely sober on a tv chat show as he was well known for turning up completely plastered while sipping from a large jug of vodka and orange as he famously once did on The Michael Aspel show back in the late 1980's. Above video was taken from The Best of Parkinson. |
Monday 12 November 2018
Vintage Chat Show Anecdotes
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Harris, Reed, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins were famous for their carousing. Still didn't affect their work. - Ian
ReplyDeleteIan, I'm sure that many a time they all drunk each other under the table as they say.
DeleteJohn Wayne was the same, never thinking about about the next day.
I remember recently seeing a re-run of the Richard Burton/Parkinson interview. They said
it was filmed in the morning as a way of getting him on before the pubs and liquor shops
opened. I lost count of how many cigarettes he lit up during that interview.