Anybody read these?
Thu, 2004-06-10 10:41
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Anybody read these?
Rather good i thought.
no
Yeah.. f*cking brilliant. Read over half of them. Will print the rest out.. cheers Alan. Loved this part.. from his last article-
Hosanna Bell, lifestyle tv producer:
`I was flabbergasted by how attractive Richard was in the flesh. Yes, we all thought his photo was adorable, but actually to look into his eyes was to melt in the devastating chaos of his tortured soul. And despite everything, that soul was a handsome man weeping in a marble shower soaping a perfect member.
`I believe he put us in touch with our inner sob. At table, the only voice of dissent came from Richard's commissioning editor, Jonathan Swude, who seemed to be tactically deprecating our praise so that we doubled it in protest.'
Myles Gedge, novelist:
`From the moment Geefe arrived, his mouth crammed with lit cigarettes, one could tell that his syzygous mind was a condign prisoner of raging turmoil - a turmoil that carved his neurons and dendrites into afunctionate butter. He was pissed. Bleating. Zekkulous. But somehow, the charisma of his demons chop-charmed the women like bolassed rheas.'
Hosanna Bell:
`Richard sat with me for over an hour while we talked about beauty and the warm arts. I told him how I'd been suicidal myself for six months after giving birth until I'd decided to sue my baby for what it had done to my figure. I showed him my wrist scars and he spoke to me like a poet-philosopher.'
Bridget Chandler, friend:
`Hosanna was sitting on Richard's knee when he said "Only the very ugly is truly beautiful" and looked her straight in the eye. Then he smiled slyly at me over her shoulder. I knew he was tearing himself up on his own sharpness but people were hanging on his every word and he revelled in the attention. "If the printed word has any meaning," he said in guru tones, "then it must come from the very edge of fucky bum boo boo." Jaws dropped. Johnny Swude was furious. He said Time to Go was the finest copy he had ever commissioned and he wasn't going to have it ruined by his star writer going all fluzie didums on him.'
Sebastian Wront, documentary maker and director of Time to Go - a Chronicle of Courage, for BBC2:
`Richard may have been particularly wound up that evening because of the great scene we'd shot that afternoon. We had contacted his estranged wife Helen [mother of their 12-year-old son Jake] and tipped her off about Richard's healthy finances on the condition that she turn up at his flat and go nuts. This was justified because he had been withholding alimony payments and there is no excuse for that because it's a form of financial genocide. Anyway, when Richard realised he'd been set up he lost it completely and we shot some great footage of him daubing his face with black floorpaint and muttering "I'm not here - this isn't happening" while Helen kicked 50 shades of shit out of him. When she left, he went ballistic and hurled me off a balcony, but such footage is well worth the pain of a chipped pelvis.'
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No, but learned a new word just the same.
Had to look up syzygous