The importance of sex
From Mr Sheridan Morley Sir: I of course apologise to Alistair B. Cooke (Letters, 12 May) and indeed to all other readers for the shameful schoolboy howler of attributing to King George VI remarks made some months after his death.
But Mr Cooke has totally misread the rest of my article: so far from encouraging actors to reveal 'the inconsequential details of their sex lives', I was remarking on the very real dangers many of them still face in doing just that.
To suggest, however, that it would have been possible to write the biography of the late Sir John Gielgud without any reference to his sexual character and its consequences is like suggesting that it would be possible to paint a portrait using only half the colours on the palette.
Sheridan Morley
London SW11
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