The Critic Magazine

Romeo Coates

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WHILE CELEBRATING fellow baby boomer His Majesty’s coronation, myself and fellow old co-stars also felt it fitting to toast our generation’s undoubted good fortune down the decades.

Though these days contending with time’s rigours, we septuagenarians raised a grateful glass to long-ago days of sexual promiscuity, unsullied RP accents, dressing for dinner and decent London house prices.

★ HAVING ADMIRED the versatile talents of Michael Sheen for many a year (his Blair, Frost, Kenny Williams to name but a few), isn’t another, more captivating role overdue? Whenever seeing dear Michael on screen these days, he appears to be channelling precisely

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