God, I hope he could well enough to call a lawyer.

Yes, exactly.

And he's threatening them with suits.

And we've got all his mates coming in, you know, Noel Card and Gertrude Lawrence and Harpo Marks and, you know, all kinds of people who are coming to visit him and people are sending him things from all over the world, including, you know, penguins and an octopus and an Egyptian sarcophagus.

So it's very farcical and it's just a lovely old comedy with a love story in the middle of it, not with me, but with his secretary and...

Stymie, that love story.

And it's, yes, it's a joy to play and a really top cast.

yes,

God, I hope he could well enough to call a lawyer.

Yes, exactly.

And he's threatening them with suits.

And we've got all his mates coming in, you know, Noel Card and Gertrude Lawrence and Harpo Marks and, you know, all kinds of people who are coming to visit him and people are sending him things from all over the world, including, you know, penguins and an octopus and an Egyptian sarcophagus.

So it's very farcical and it's just a lovely old comedy with a love story in the middle of it, not with me, but with his secretary and...

Stymie, that love story.

And it's, yes, it's a joy to play and a really top cast.

yes,

God, I hope he could well enough to call a lawyer.

Yes, exactly.

And he's threatening them with suits.

And we've got all his mates coming in, you know, Noel Card and Gertrude Lawrence and Harpo Marks and, you know, All kinds of people who are coming to visit him, and people are sending him things from all over the world, including penguins and an octopus and an Egyptian sarcophagus.

So it's very farcical, and it's just a lovely old comedy with a love story in the middle of it.

Not with me, but with his secretary and...

Stymie, that love story.

yes,

God, I hope he could well enough to call a lawyer.

Yes, exactly.

And he's threatening them with suits.

And we've got all his mates coming in, you know, Noel Card and Gertrude Lawrence and Harpo Marks and, you know, All kinds of people who are coming to visit him, and people are sending him things from all over the world, including penguins and an octopus and an Egyptian sarcophagus.

So it's very farcical, and it's just a lovely old comedy with a love story in the middle of it.

Not with me, but with his secretary and...

Stymie, that love story.

yes,

Oh, he was.

And, you know, he was a charming man.

If he passed me in the foyer, he'd flash this movie star smile at me and say, hello, David, how are you? And I'd say, pretty good, Wal.

Or made you think that you wouldn't get in, though.

Why did you think you wouldn't get one of the ten? Well, you see, I had this scarring experience.

We had to do a... compulsory ballet class of Madame Zora Sembarova, who was a fierce former Czechoslovakian prima ballerina who wore a black sable fur coat and toque 365 days of the year.

She sounds fabulous.

He was

Don't want to alarm you unduly," that kind of conversation?

Eventually, uh, someone from Pan Am New York rang and a- a- asked me to verify my identity, and then they, uh, gave me the news that both my parents, my mother aged 50, my father aged 52, were dead.

The plane had, had left the runway, uh, in a thunderstorm and had got only 100 feet in the air, and the wind shear, wind shear had pulled it down, and it had, had it hit trees and, and crashed into a suburb and burst into flames and killed 145 people on all hands on the plane and eight people on the ground, including four children.

And they said, "We'll ring you back in 20 minutes with, uh, arrangements for you to come to New Orleans immediately to identify the bodies." Then I had to console my grandmother, um, who was a very good, uh, Baptist, and I held her in my arms and recited the 23rd Psalm.

And then I had the, the duty to tell my sister, who was in denial that this could ever happen.

And then I had the duty, which was the hardest thing I've ever done, Richard, to have to go round to my other grandmother's house, knowing that, that she would've...

She wasn't listening to the radio or watching the television.

And what did you, what did they say when you asked to see the crash site?