Re: withnail & i
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 13:31:02 -0800
oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
> It's outrageously brilliant, and I'm happy to see that several people
> have been able to enjoy it.
> But like a mood-stabilizing drug, "Withnail & I" amazingly changed my
> outlook, allowing me to leave the theater happy to have sat through
> such a movie.
One of those movies where you actually feel drunk after you've seen it. So much so
that as soon as the movie is over all you want to do is go and get drunk and have
the finest wines in all of creation brought to you.
> Also (have I said this before?) that the fellow on whom Withnail
> was based recently died, of throat cancer. He had followed a steady
> decline and never got anywhere in his acting career.
I never knew anything about the actual person it was based upon. Any more
information you have on the person? Where did you read the info?
If anyone is interested: a postcard of the movie's poster art happened to fling
itself in my path over the years and I've put it up in the film critique part of
my homepage (along with postcards of Orlando, Malcolm X and Lawrence of Arabia).
Lovely reproduction of the Ralph Steadman poster art (my lucky friend Sharon has
the original one sheet framed in her foyer. Boy do I covet that.) and it can be
yours, too, in all of it's 76,000 byte glory for a mere right-click.
http://www.wolfenet.com/~malcolm/cinintro.htm
> --tim "I shall never play the Dane" o'connor
--Malcolm "He called me a ponce" Lawrence