Sitting on the couch with my Dad watching Derek Jacobi in the BBC Hamlet on PBS.
My Riverside open on my lap.
And every once in a while my Dad, recognizing a phrase, would say "Wait a minute! THAT'S from Hamlet?"
One of my greatest memories!
Half a Sixpence
John Cleese and Terry Gilliam met while appearing in a West End production of the musical Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele. It was in the same production that Cleese met his future wife Connie Booth. The book for Half a Sixpence was written by Beverley Cross, later married to Maggie Smith.
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