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This is the fourth volume of his autobiographies. In it, he retraces his life from childhood to the present day. Like the earlier volumes, it is a very personal account of his life behind the scenes, and an affectionate, amusing and touching review of an extraordinary life. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(Dirk is President of the Cannes Film Festival and is reading out the results) "Nothing for John Huston" "You must give HIM the hommage..." "We have already given the hommage to Ray" "Huston is here, in Cannes. He has come especially for the Festival, he has given us Under The Volcano! He is a very old man, he has travelled many, many thousands of miles, six thousand miles he has travelled to be with us. Six thousand!" I sat mute, staring at my pile of votes; at the list which I could have read out in less than an hour. Suddenly a member of the jury said, in a voice flat with hours of discussion, his pencil pointing at the Heart of Authority, "Listen, you do NOT win the fucking Palme d'Or for TRAVELLING!" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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