Actor’s journals reveal predictably waspish wit and barbs directed at Carry On peers, and are available to public after British Library paid £220,000 for them
It may be considered one of the greatest movies of all time but for Kenneth Williams, Doctor Zhivago was dull beyond belief. “Everyone has LONG PROFOUND looks at each other – they frequently cry on meeting, or seeing people shot or something … no film should be boring, and this one is.”
Williams’s low opinion of the critically acclaimed film and its director, “David (dreary) Lean”, are revealed for the first time in his diaries, which have been acquired and made public by the British Library. “This may be the Great Russian Novel, he continued, “but it’s a pain in the arse as a film.”
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