BOY WHO WOULD BE KING
I SEE KEN BRANAGH’S been tugging at the heartstrings in his film Belfast, a “semi-autobiographical” account of difficult childhood events. A revealing insight, no doubt, into the environment that helped turn a once innocent boy into the polite but ruthless networker many of us remember Kenny becoming by young adulthood — when nothing or no one got in the way of that often unseemly quest to seize Larry Olivier’s crown.
ON READING SHAKESPEARE’S Globe had taken to holding “open castings” for professional actors currently left “under-represented” in this crisis-hit trade, I instructed the unwilling agent to make appropriate email contact.
