| Description | Includes discussion of: the production Camelot (rehearsals, previews, critics' response and audience reception); the defeat of Edward Kennedy and the re-election of Jimmy Carter; socialising with Henry Kissinger and family; Bob Wilson; Ian Bannen and reflections on the television serial about Churchill, Walk with Destiny. Also references to various fellow actors including John Neville, Rex Harrison, Laurence Olivier and Peter O'Toole; John Maclure (sound engineer on Camelot); Susan Burton and her family; brother Verdun; visiting Haiti; visit of Pope John Paul II to Haiti; Elizabeth Taylor and rehearsals for Private Lives in New York; Sally Burton; children Kate, Liza and Maria; memorial service for Tennesse Williams. Also notes his reading, including Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain and Franz Kafka. |