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Guinness was "the outstanding poet of anonymity" - Peter Ustinov
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His idea of Heaven, he once said, was to "sit on the terrace on
a summer's evening, enjoy a drink with one or two friends and listen
to the silence.'' |
6/01/06 - The Guinness home in Hampshire is for sale 1/18/05 - Time Magazine Cover Article 1958 11/18/04
- There is a new Yahoo Group called Poet of Anonymity. Click
HERE to join |
12/30/03 - The Independent: Film Studies: There's nothing so suspicious as an upright Englishman By David Thomson 12/29/03 - A link to more information on the BBC2 Guinness Program 12/29/03 - Unravelling the Guinness mystery - The BBC. Thanks, Gill (on BBC2 UK TV 12/29) 12/28/02 - Both Smiley series are now available on VHS and DVD in the USA from Acorn: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People
10/11/02 - Le
Carre on Alec in a conversation with Adrian Wootton - Fascinating! New York Times Obit HERE Link page updated 6/4/02. Italian article added |
| "An actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child, and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerise a group of innocents." From the prologue of Blessings In Disguise, by Alec Guinness |
Cover scanned from the Guinness
Biography, Blessings In Disguise.
Illustration by the
Master, Herschfeld.
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