Too much corpsing
Sir: Since John Huston's death I have read three of his obituaries, two of which gave different versions of Huston kneeling by a corpse and exclaiming variants of the phrase 'He's going to be just fine.'
LETTERS
Now Robert Morley, in your issue of 5 September, jumps on the 'Huston-Corpse- Just Fine bandwaggon', but this time the cadaver lies on a grand boulevard (one supposes in Paris) and not on a pavement of New York's Third Avenue where, as told in Lillian Ross's classic send-up of film making in the New Yorker (later to be published as a book, Picture, in 1953) it was originally found by Huston and Ross on a midnight walk.
Are we to conclude that Huston, gener- ally with a receptive companion, had a habit of stumbling on corpses in great cities by night, or that Mr Morley, in a long life, might confuse things seen with things read?
W. E. Armstrong
16 Rue Thiers, 64100 Bayonne, France
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