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I find it curious that no one has remarked on a cannibalistic similarity between that ' Black and Blue' television comedy, ' Secrets ' — in which Warren Mitchell played a chocolate manufacturer who got a few factory hands accidentally mixed into his product —and the film Soylent Green, which takes its title from another confection in which the apparently delectable human flash has been incorporated. Obviously 'TV critics and film critics just don't overlap.
Till royalties us do part
Warren Mitchell, incidentally, in the guise of Alf Garnett, will be getting a nice little bonus in the shape of a royalty from writer Johnny Speight's forthcoming book version of the Garnett story. Or will he? I hear that, although Mitchell pays a royalty to Speight whenever he uses Alf in his cabaret act, Speight has been known to demur at the reverse procedure when his character but with, of course, Mitchell's face, is used for commercial purposes. It would be 'possible, no doubt, to. keep the actor's face out of the writer's book — but in that event, would it sell?
The real thing
The Bankside Globe and Vanessa Redgrave evidently have a useful friend at the Evening Standard. The newspaper's Londoner's Diary columnist, when not avidly reading Spectator leaders, is much concerned to promote Miss Redgrave's Globe Cleopatra. Two items in three days last week: one a nice little piece about her handling of the fatal snake; the other a straight fan letter about how wonderful she is, and all the critics are wrong, and better hurry because it all ends on September 1. Money can't buy that kind of thing. It must be love.
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