I picked back up on Nicholas Nickleby rather than start something new.
If you get a chance, watch the Great Performances recording of the RSC’s eight-hour-long stage version of Nicholas Nickleby – not only is it one of the more faithful adaptations ever done of anything, it’s populated by a lot of actors who were not yet famous in the 1980s, most of them playing multiple roles (Bob Peck is John Browdie *and* Sir Mulberry!)—and Newman Noggs is played by Edward Petherbridge and he’s wonderful.
I could see another celebrity memoir taking a defensive approach (“LOOK. I was on so much cocaine! It was the 80s! Every rock star was on so much cocaine!”) or a tragical, poor little rich boy one
I saw a quote a few years ago from an interview with Helen Mirren where she alludes to having enjoyed cocaine back in the day but also that she gave it up, not for health or legal reasons, but because she began worrying about the conditions under which the raw materials for it were produced. After all when a product is already illegal there’s no way to guarantee it’s responsibly and fairly sourced; and she says something like you don’t want there to be farmers enslaved somewhere while you’re having a lovely time at a party -- which struck me as an attitude to recreational drugs that I hadn’t encountered before.
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If you get a chance, watch the Great Performances recording of the RSC’s eight-hour-long stage version of Nicholas Nickleby – not only is it one of the more faithful adaptations ever done of anything, it’s populated by a lot of actors who were not yet famous in the 1980s, most of them playing multiple roles (Bob Peck is John Browdie *and* Sir Mulberry!)—and Newman Noggs is played by Edward Petherbridge and he’s wonderful.
I could see another celebrity memoir taking a defensive approach (“LOOK. I was on so much cocaine! It was the 80s! Every rock star was on so much cocaine!”) or a tragical, poor little rich boy one
I saw a quote a few years ago from an interview with Helen Mirren where she alludes to having enjoyed cocaine back in the day but also that she gave it up, not for health or legal reasons, but because she began worrying about the conditions under which the raw materials for it were produced. After all when a product is already illegal there’s no way to guarantee it’s responsibly and fairly sourced; and she says something like you don’t want there to be farmers enslaved somewhere while you’re having a lovely time at a party -- which struck me as an attitude to recreational drugs that I hadn’t encountered before.