Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) (102 page)

ABOVE RIGHT Advertising bicycle clips with Alan Bennett, North Yorkshire, May 1984

RIGHT ‘Kill it, Gilbert !’. MP, Betty and Maggie Smith.

BELOW With Maggie, enjoying a break from porcicide in the garden at Briargarth, May 1984

With Alan and Maggie and the foot from my chiropodist’s surgery, on the set of the dance sequence after the Mayor’s dinner, June 1984

Anne Gibbins, Helen’s mother, with my mother and Helen at the
Private Function
Royal Premiere, November 21st 1984

Toilet of the Stars. (left to right) Denholm Elliott, Jim Carter, MP, Pete Postlethwaite, John Normington and Richard Griffiths in the gents at The Great Western Hotel Paddington, June 1984

Will, Tom, Rachel and Helen on holiday in Majorca, August 1986

‘Photographed with a bike giving views on cycling in London. Cannot pose with my own bike as the saddle’s missing’ March 7 1986

All-American look for the Joan Rivers show. She was the only American host who ever wrote me a thank-you letter.

A Fish Called Wanda

Comrades in arms.
(Clockwise from top left):
With Charles Crichton, director; Gerry Paris (the best stand-in in the world); Kevin Kline, chip abuser and friend.

John C (Archie Leach) trying some unsuccessful information retrieval.