Friday, December the 3rd, 2010

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Sir Larry & His Purple Prose

“Olivier doesn't fall asleep, for him ‘the god Morpheus had applied his gentle pressure to my dormic nerve’; he doesn't go for a quick shag, Olivier has ‘tender venturings into the blessed unction of sex’. It's a masquerade.”

Roger Lewis, The Real Life Of Laurence Olivier (1996), quoting from the actor's autobiography.