Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) (101 page)

My mother crosses the Atlantic for the first and only time in her life, at the age of 80 years and 2 days. New York City January 1984

With my sister Angela, Nancy Lewis and Mum in Central Park.

Mum, with Angela, at the
Saturday Night Live
after-show party. ‘There is no question of Granny not wanting to go – in fact she stays there until four a.m.’ January 21 1984

East of Ipswich
. Tristram Powell, director, in cap and Innes Lloyd, producer, worry about the weather, Southwold, Suffolk, June 1986

Wearing my Biff T-shirt at the
East of Ipswich
wrap party at the Crown Hotel, Southwold.

MP, Gilliam, David Robinson of the Times, John Cartwright of the British Council, and our Russian escort Elena, on Jabberwocky visit to Moscow and Leningrad, November 1986

My mother and her neighbour, Lily Pratt, outside Croft Cottage, near Southwold, Suffolk.

Launching a rebuilt steam-engine at the Bluebell Railway.

Mahendra “Mash” Patel, our newsagent. Such reserves of patience and good and humour that our family name for him is Mr Nice Man.

‘Sam Jarvis has arrived to start decorating and is extremely worried about the whereabouts of his tea bags’

Will and Eric in France. Summer 1984. I’d had a Geoffrey Boycott T-shirt made for Eric as we were both slightly obsessed with the Greatest Living Yorkshireman.

My friend Al Levinson (left) with Norman Rosten, poet laureate of Brooklyn, and like me, a champion of Al’s work.

A Private Function

ABOVE
A Private Function
was the last of five films I made with George Harrison and Denis O’Brien as Executive Producers. The HandMade logo was a Gilliam design.