Laurence Olivier, the greatest actor in the world, died today.I actually met Lord Olivier (or Larry, as I used to call him). In my career I've drifted in and out of professional acting and back in the late '70s I was waiting outside the stage door of a London theatre for an audition when The Man Himself walked up to me and said, in that effortless delivery of his, "Excuse me" and brushed past inside.
Everyone else moves up one notch.
As a young actor, I always took his words of kind encouragement and advice to heart.
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Sigh...such good fortune is ever yours, my friend.
Seeing as my greatest endeavor as an actor was portraying Jacob Marley in a high school theatrical abortion that was Scrooge: the Musical, I would have been overjoyed to have even been commanded to "Sod off" by someone even half of Olivier's caliber.
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