I know you’re thinking – obviously J R Hartley – but I’m here to tell you the man was not all that he seemed. He had already bought all available copies of the book from local shops and this daily ritual was a tiresome display of sad narcissism. His devoted daughter, Myrtle, was condemned (by him) to life as a Spinster following the sudden death her mother (Mrs Hartley) back in the 1950s.
She was woken up by noises in her parents” bedroom and when she went to investigate, her father stood at the door, blocking her view. His ashen, bloodstained face contorted into a diabolical gargoyle-like smile. “What have you done, Myrtle?
What have you DONE!?”.
She ran back to her room and hid under the blankets. Sheer terror released endorphins that had the effect of a general anaesthetic. When she came to, her father was downstairs having cheerfully prepared breakfast. Her mother was nowhere to be seen and she was never mentioned again.
So basically, we can cross JR Hartley off the list.
My nominations would be :
Sir Michael Palin
Whispering “Bob!” Harris
Jeff Stelling
Juergen Klopp
Dwayne “the rock!” Johnson
Let’s hear it for the good guys!
My next door neighbour, Clay. His dog, Ottis, too.
HP Saucecraft. Although we’re currently separated by many tides, he’s been both my fellow buccaneer, boatswain, ley rambling companion, whelk sexer, necromancer, gypsy jazz prog fusion troupe percussionist (suck my maracas Ray Cooper), lover, dare I say friend, and father to our divine god king child.
Lodestone?
Fuck off, loser!
😂😂😂
I would agree with the first two of those.
I would add the managing director of the company I work for but you lot dont know him
Also Martin Stephenson, Billy Connolly and Ken Clarke – I dont generally like Tories but make exception with Ken.
Potter?????
I thought that title had already been given to Dave Grohl.
Funny you should say that. Last night I got into one of those YouTube rabbit holes where one video leads to another and I watched a load of clips of Foo Fighter concerts where DG was getting people out of the audience to play with the band.
Maybe he does play up to the nice image now, but watching, for example, some 10-year-old get to rock out on Dave Grohl’s guitar in front of 20,000 people and then Grohl lets him keep the guitar afterwards… even an old cynic like me was getting quite emotional after a while.
Grohl’s an interesting one. I think he is one of the good guys but, like any mega-successful bandleader (hello Tom Petty, Jon Bon Jovi etc), he’s done some pretty brutal firing to keep the show on the road.
The Foo Fighters’ doc Back and Forth is a great watch, one of the reasons being they kept in interviews of ex-band members thrown out for being suddenly out of favour. William Goldsmith was kicked out because he couldn’t drum as well as Dave in the studio, never having played in a high stakes recording setup. Franz Stahl, Grohl’s bandmate from the punk days, was recruited for a punishing world tour but booted out during the making of the next album for not fitting in. They both are visibly emotional about the speedy way they were removed from the picture. In Stahl’s case the manager made the phone call, for Goldsmith he returned from a break to find all his parts had been redone. However, Taylor Hawkins was given free reign to misbehave, right up until he overdosed in London, but remains in the band. It’s to his credit that all this stayed in the final edit – but does that make Dave a nice guy?
No idea but I would suggest that others may have had input. The producer, in the case of the not quite up to it drummer, the other band members who probably also felt that Stahl didn’t fit in, not to mention the manager who may have more of a business head than Grohl and felt that these decisions were necessary for the future of the band.
In the Goldsmith case, the producer, Gil Norton, was something of a tyrant and referred to him and bassist Nate Mendel as ‘the rhythmless section’. I feel slightly bad for them in each case as they were obviously fine for being in post-grunge band on the road for many gruelling months, but when they showed any deficiency in the studio – where they’d never been outside a low-fi punk setting, there was no help or sympathy.
The manager is never referred to. It is said that the ‘nicer’ the star, the more shouty and obnoxious the manager (hello Coldplay!)
Palin is a bit of a twat, actually.
It is possible to be a bit of a twat AND nice.
Hear hear!
I’ve heard MP regularly has loud parties and is infamous for drinking the first quarter inch of cream from his neighbours’ milk bottles on his way home from all night meetings of his local Masonic lodge
The blackguard! That’s him struck from my list!
Jim Mullen is a very nice chap.
In one of his books/diaries, Palin seems rather obsessed with getting a gong. This made me think a lot less of him. I hope he’s happy now he’s got one.
The world’s nicest man is no longer with us, I’m afraid.
… like the World’s Oldest Man. He died, too.
Terry Wogan would’ve/ could’ve taken the award when he was still upright.
Tom Hanks has a reputation for being a thoroughly nice bloke
Adam Buxton talks about this with Zadie Smith in his most recent podcast. He wonders whether the niceness is a performance, but Smith thinks it is a more like a deliberate action. Having decided to be a nice guy he assesses each situation and does what a nice guy would do. Nice is as nice does so to speak.
So basically a sugar coated psychopath.
Not at all. Moral goodness is in actions, not some feeling of inner goodness. You are what you do; you are as nice as you make others feel.
Half the problem with the world is that people think their beliefs are enough to make them good. That’s why there’s so many complete shits on the left who are obsessed with their sense of themselves as The Good Guys: they see their politics as morally good and think it’s a substitute for the real thing.
Someone who consciously takes a deeper perspective as you suggest should absolutely be respected. That is true dharma, or whatever term one may choose to use, or none at all, and I absolutely agree with you about those that squat on the self appointed moral high ground. That’s a dark and blinkered road to go down, dangerous even, no matter what part of the political spectrum one is on. Being non partisan right of centre myself, generally speaking, but also comfortably centre left on certain issues depending, I find more levels of intolerance amongst the so-called tolerant, ironically. Moral fallacy is old as it comes. If you are convinced and insist that you are absolutely right, carte blanche, then you become nothing more than a zealot
You’re absolutely certain about that, Rob?
😂😂😂
Wogan – the man who allegedly demanded a fee for doing Children In Need..? I don’t think so….
As I remember his defence was that his agent handled the booking and Wogan didn’t even realise he was being paid, to which the obvious response if that it would be nice to have a job where a big wedge of cash can be paid to you and you don’t even wonder where it came from.
In all honesty, I don’t think ‘niceness’ has that much going for it as a dominating characteristic. Too sweet to be wholesome, more often than not. As an aspect of one’s personality eg a generally good bloke, fine and good of course, but the world’s nicest man would problem accidentally facilitate Armageddon because he was too busy smoothing feathers, making pots of tea for all concerned and giving everyone the benefit of his consideration and an equal hearing, because he’s nice. Nice mates wouldn’t really stick up for your in a fight either. They’re the types that hide in a phone box, calling the emergency services, and generally being so very concerned after the all clear and the dust has settled.
Maybe they’ve just gone in the phone box only to re-emerge as a superman* to right the wrongs of society, and you don’t recognise them as they’ve taken off their glasses.
*other superheroes are available, at a small fee.
Leonard Cohen was very nice that time I met him.
Cohen told me you were the loveliest person he’d ever met. He was crying. I’m not kidding.
As he would.
@RobC you are right there of course – at the age of 16 I was considered ‘Cute’ by the girls at school but didn’t often get laid. By the time I was 18 I had developed a different persona that bought some different benefits.
You b*st*rd!!!
I was considered both slightly cute and slightly odd. It went down well out the back of The Sovereigns in Woking, cider and black, a teenage sliver of a sixteenth of Leb amongst friends, a snog and maybe a phone number, that when nervously called a couple of days later you put down immediately when Dad answered. You might have got through to Mum, put probably no, but a least you got the wiser and more tactful. response, even if you didn’t fall for it, A raven haired Goth resplendent in purple, dangling Jesus, and copious bangles and bracelets and who worked so rudely at the WH Smith record counter. Oh how I longed to whisk her away to somewhere more miserable.
There’s a super hero around these parts actually, Hubes dear heart. I have no idea who he is, honestly, no idea at all, but he’s such a splendidly tremendous chap that goes by the name of ‘The Green Helmet’. When you see that symbol of a giant green luminescent throbbing radioactive glans projected in the night skies, the people withing a four mile radius of Nether Snurtle, Ricketts Spinney and Lower Drabcock can sleep safely in their beds in the knowledge that low level rural crime is being furiously and valiantly battled, on a part time basis, and weather permitting, by a lone force for goodness, truth and justice.
I wondered what that was. I thought the Martians were coming.
“coming”!!!!!
we all saw what you did there!
Inspired by a quite a rude Ken Dodd joke.
***
What a beautiful day! What a beautiful day for…sticking a cucumber through a letterbox and shouting “the martians have landed!”.
I think a lot of perceived nice-manness is to do with the resting face. The inner turmoil might be as hot as the sun, but if you seem to have a cheeky smile playing on your lips, you are still a nice man.
Fascists of either end of the spectrum just love their doggies.
Me.
Actually, it’s me. My wife and dog told me.
I have 2 dogs.
Yeah, but one hates you. He told me.
Both girls.
Ah, but one identifies as male and knows you don’t accept it. That’s why he hates you. 😉
That much may be true:Wilma lifts a leg for many of her wees.
Wilbur!
According to the Guardian, the nicest person in the world is in fact top thespian Keanu Reeves.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/04/keanu-stories-fans-share-unexpected-meetings-with-sweet-quiet-nervous-reeves
https://www.theguardian.com/film/shortcuts/2019/nov/05/keanu-reeves-new-girlfriend-hollywoods-loveliest-man
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/keanu-reeves-what-am-i-bid-for-hollywoods-no-1-good-guy
I was just about to suggest Mr Reeves.
Excellent chap, by all accounts. So-crates wrote as much.
Spookily, I was just about suggest Keanu.
It seems to be impossible to find anyone willing to say a bad word about him.
A terrific action star, decent director, producer of the terrific ‘Side By Side’ 2012 documentary about the cinematic process.
Seems humble almost to a fault & of course is the originator of the phrase ‘ It’s quantum, baby!’ which may well prove to be his greatest legacy.
He gets my vote.
Stephen ColBAIR asked him what he thought happens when we die. Keanu, after a little thought, said “we will be missed, by those who love us”,
Well, he was Little Buddha.
There’s something more to him than being nice. He’s a genuinely wise man.
Yeah, but what about the three guys he killed in a bar with a pencil. With a f**kin’ PENCIL!!
2B or not 2B? He made his point. You have to draw the line somewhere. (ectect)
Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army.
On a slight tangent, does anyone hear think of themselves as being “nice”? It’s a word quite a few people have pinned on me over the years (yes, I know, hard to believe), but I always find myself craving a flash of nastiness in my character. Part of me wants to be the rebel, the scoundrel, the loose cannon…. and I just don’t have it in me. I’m the peacemaker, the dependable one, the one who says please and thank you, the designated driver.
Yes, I’ve been called maybe-not-exactly-nice-but-something-very-similar by males and females and it has never come across as being intended as a compliment. I’m actually a git, but I do have what seems to be an unusual characteristic which is that I never lose my temper..
You are me! I have never in my life raised my voice above “slightly disgruntled”, and I have never been in a fight.
I do crave a dark side though. I wonder what it’s like to be a rogue?
The uncomplimentary version of “nice” would be “doormat” or “soft touch”, which isn’t a good thing…. I do worry about slipping into that circle on the Venn diagram.
Not even a scuffle?! Crivens!
There we differ Arthur. I have had to drop people – verbally and otherwise – and I think my lack of a healthy “early warning system” (i.e. the ability to produce a dramatic hissy fit to warn someone they’ are crossing a line) actually causes bother that might otherwise have been avoided..
We have a family in joke that collectively and individually we are ‘nice’ but definitely not ‘wholesome’.
This comes from observing other families on holiday or at beauty spots etc. that seem to exude an almost visible Palinesque quality that not only is not us, but I have no desire to aspire to.
Everyone needs a little bit of edge, even if it’s mild by others’ standards.
I have a much darker & dare I say nastier disposition (usually restricted to just humour) than most people who only know me casually would guess at, most of whose seem to think I’m a well of pleasantness. Once I’m proper pals with people ( pretty rare with new folk these days) the truth can be revealed, & sometimes they actually stick about!
Oh I know what you mean. Evil Arthur is alive and thriving inside me, but he doesn’t come out to play much, and only once you really get to know me.
Very glad to hear that, Arthur!
At last. Hear hear!
Not Stelling, he takes money to advertise betting as being cool and funny on TV. So he ruins many lives doing that.
I would vote for Hanks, but I am sure there is something horrible hiding beneath that wholesome surface. As Lennon said “You have to be a bastard to make it”
Wouldn’t Lennon kinda be bound to say that? It’s not true.
His self admitted ‘shooting his mouth off’ was part and parcel of his character, and at least he applied his cynicism towards himself. Plenty of decent people achieve celebrity success. The political/corporate world? Far less so. There be ye bastards.
I was being facetious. May be a grain of truth in it though.
Perhaps, yes. I’m slightly wary of those whose ‘niceness’ is part of the image. Usually, the good ones still well clear of that, and especially the ‘charidee’ angle. That’s a dead give away, and more often than not tax deductible.
‘But at least they’re raising awareness’…
Of their own ego and profile to generate yet more profit. Utterly hypocritical, vainglorious, hollow souled narcissist dungballs on the arses of Black Shuck and all the demon dogs of lore and all their cross cultural equivalents. Fuck ’em. Peace and Love.
Me Dad. Nic Jones. Barry Hines. (Two of em, sadly have popped their clogs)
Apparently Neil Gaiman is niceness personified (I’ve only ever read the one account that put him in a negative light, so he may just have good PR)
Well he was until he did a Dominic Cummings a couple of months back
I have it on good authority that although he’s a fun and kind person to have around, he’s not what you’d call “nice” in the wholesome sense.
I think he’s another one who makes a deliberate decision to be nice. In the documentary about him, I can’t recall the name, he says that part of the reason he wanted to stop doing huge signing tours, other than it taking up time he could be creating new work, was that he made a point of being the best version of himself that every fan wanted to meet, and it was exhausting.
I’ve met him twice, the first time when his first graphic novel was published. Even though he was new at the events side of authorship he was already very professional and personable.
The second time I met him was when I went to see Thea Gilmore at an I store signing at Borders on Oxford Street. I got there early and filled the time by buying a couple of birthday cards. When I looked over at the coffee shop next to the gifts area I saw Thea there, and she was talking to Neil Gaiman. I hadn’t read Anansi Boys, which was just out in paperback, so I bought a copy. (The woman on the till looked at it, glanced both ways and leaned forward to say ‘Someone told me he is in the shop!’) When Thea was setting up on the small stage I tracked down Neil to where he was browsing a table of books and asked him to sign my Anansi Boys. I have to say he was charm itself, even though he did look kind of exhausted.
I’ve decided that it might quite possibly be Rick Wakeman or Bernard Cribbins.
Wakeman has to be ruled out.
In a recent Uncut he suggested that the film “Absolute Beginners” wasn’t (that’s “wasn’t”) Absolute Shite, and implored people to revisit it.
If just one person took up this thoughtless advice, Wakeman surely has to be deemed a very unkind man.
If by Man you mean Person then Countess Wrongness is the nicest nice person in all the world. She always always tries to see the best in everyone she meets. Everyone loves her including, of course, me. Sometimes when I have involved her in a stupid pointless argument about the correct way to stack the dishwasher or some other vitally important thing she has got Wrong she just looks at me and smiles. No idea what I did to deserve her – born under a good sign I suppose.
Or perhaps she’s just biding her time until she murders you in your sleep.
There’s always that possibility… thanks for reminding me.
I’d nominate KFD of this place. Seriously. Can you imagine him even coming out with a slightly sarcastic comment? Or a mildly provocative put down? I can’t. I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone that nice in real life. He’s either a bit “simple” or very wise. My money’s on the latter.
Re: “I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone that nice in real life.”
Well, I’ve only met one person that nice in real life. And his name, of course, is Kaisfatdad.
Yeah but you don’t actually exist and neither does KFD and neither does Riggs – you are all too “nice”.
Gary on the other hand does exist, solely as a reminder of what goes Wrong when you don’t pay attention in school.
Alas, I can reveal that KFD is the Evil Genius behind Spinach n’ Strawberry Scented Toilet Duck©.
But that was a dietary indiscretion rather than laboratory shenanigans.
But KFD only moved to Sweden to shorten the commute to his secret evil-plotting HQ, under the polar icecap next door to Lodey’s.
With @kaisfatdad sat in a swivel chair stroking a white long-haired Persian cat.
Shiiiiit! That’s my cover totally and thoroughly blown.
Thanks to your kind words, @Gary, it looks as though I and my splendid moggy will now need to relocate.
Ha ha ha ha!
I’m setting the controls of my private jet for Monopoli! Who would suspect that sleepy Italian fun-spot as the hub of an international Empire of Evil???
Congratulations on a thoroughly enjoyable thread, Mr Celebration.
Kaisfatdad, Evil Arthur Cowslip and Alice Cooper: we have lot in common!
A truly nice person would never get mentioned o a thread like this.
Today, to my teenage son’s confusion, I found myself chatting to a charming homeless geezer who was pushing his bike along Sveavägen here in Stockholm..
His hair was remarkable. Rather than having dreadlocks, he had one enormous wodge of matted foliage that was a cross between a beaver’s tail and a table tennis bat,
There was something special about him. Like a wandering guru from India. Some Latino girls who were sitting in an outdoor cafe, stopped him to give some money and wish him well.
Delighted to speak English, he started to tell me about the time he had met James Bond on Drottningatan and how 007 had recruited him to work undercover for the British Secret Service. I could almost believe him.
A gentle soul,. he did seem genuinely nice,
But totally out to lunch.
Not Klopp.
I admire the man absolutely and he comes across brilliantly on TV but he has to have a ruthless streak to get to the top of the profession he is in. I would hate to cross him.
Especially not with those teeth.
@mikethep Definitely. The teeth of a psychopathic master criminal.
I think we need to define ‘nice’….!?
I’ve heard it said that Robert “Percy” Plant is generally a good egg.
Oh yeah good one.
Terrific carnal gourment. Very generous with his time when it comes to the ladies. Utterly selfless.
Grayson Perry. I say that with very little evidence. He just seems incredibly kind and empathetic. If I could change the voice inside my head to be a nicer, kinder one, it would be his.
He seems nice enough, but a middle aged bloke dressed as a six year old girl inside my head? I must be honest. It’s on the slightly creepy spectrum.
Read his book The Descent of Man. What he does, and how he does it, are inseparable from his niceness.
Percy Plant wrote The Descent Of Man? *adds to Things I Learned Today thread*
That says more about the inside of your head. A glimpse of the horrors therein is revealed.
But yeah it is weird!
Perhaps we do need to define ‘nice’.
The reason why I genderised the OP was because men are rewarded (and even admired) for being rude, nasty and greedy. They’re decisive, they speak as they find, they don’t suffer fools gladly. So those men that “make it” and display none of these attributes are all the more remarkable and worthy of being honoured in an Afterword thread of their very own.
So what do I mean by ‘nice’? I think unflappable is a good word. You keep a sense of calm no matter what madness is around you. You see comedy in just about everything. Not sarcastic piss-taking – but more often gentle, amusing absurdities. Billy Connolly does this really well as did the aforementioned Terry Wogan, who exposed as Breaking News the use of cheap wire coat hangers in the wardrobes at Southfork Ranch (home of the Billionaire Ewing family in Dallas).
Michael Palin’s comedy ridiculed authority, bureaucracy and tradition. If I had the full half hour (snort!) I would argue that his work has been enormously important, particularly his handling of Life of Brian, when that was released. In this TV interview with Malcolm Muggeridge (and some ridiculous Bishop of the day) you can see a Nice Man being absolutely furious (1:50).
You honestly think that many hugely successful women (good luck to them – it’s a tough climb fighting for equality) are not just as capable of being rude, nasty or greedy, and indeed utterly ruthless? Sure they are, otherwise how did they get there then? Seriously. Did they just wait for the tides of patriarchy to turn so they could fly Tinkerbell like over them? No, and rightly so if those are the rules. Play them and win.
I’m not 100% with you on that. There are successful women who achieve great things without playing that game. In the days of Thatcher, it seemed that the only way for a woman to get to the top was to be even more ruthless and nasty than the established patriarchy.
This narrative continues to this day when female leaders are assumed to have excessive amounts of male-ness in their behaviour. It’s as if their innate talent, intelligence and business acumen are not enough of a reason for them doing well.
Fair enough. Personally, I don’t buy into ‘patriarchy’, ‘excessive male-ness’ or any of Derrida and co’s neo marxist deconstructionalist agenda.
Ai No Derrida.
Me neither.
There’s a hook! 😉
That whole interview is just so Python in and of itself.
I had that thought too – the Bishop seems like a ridiculous caricature created by a camp comedian.
I’ll pass. I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent chap, honestly, but as for being inseparable from his niceness? Poor bloke. Doesn’t even get a weekend break on that front. A bottled up Jekyl ready to explode, as Carl Jung could have said.
Are we still talking about Percy Plant?
Tony Hart was nice.
Ah! But was he tho’, really – or were you just lulled into feeling that way by the pacifying joint that was the gallery music..?
Ah, the gallery music….. (drifts off into a revery)….
I think he was and I choose to believe he was.
In other news, it’s all been kicking off in Fall world tonight. ( That was a reference in your post ?)
Why? Was someone suggesting that Mark E was nice? 😉
Nope, even sillier than that. They’d let a girl in.
I’m on there but it wasn’t me.
@sarah
I don’t know the full story but it didn’t look nice.
I very rarely post. I’m not a huge fan by any means and sometimes you’re made to feel that way I think.
My darling Sis crewed charter boats off Montserrat in the early 80s & Tony Hart was a client for a week or so – 100% sweetie apparently.
Morph must have got a bit floppy in the heat (hurrr)
Can I nominate the UK’s two newest national treasures for Britain’s nicest couple, based on their lockdown videos? Mr. Willcox and Mrs. Fripp have an infectious happiness about them.
I think a truly nice couple is a rare thing so hurrah for Frippcox.
The naked ambition of complete self publicist Toyah rules her out. She probably threatens Fripp with all sorts if he doesn’t appear in these videos.
I’d also like to nominate Henry Sandon, who is of course the author of “The Illustrated Guide to Worcester Porcelain 1751 – 1793”. In his twilight years, he has been a regular face on Antiques Roadshow. Look up the word “avuncular” and there he is – a kind, learned and cheerful old man who likes nothing better than handling some Worcester Porcelain, particularly from the late 18th century.
Any votes against? No?
*bangs gavel*
Carried.
You can say that, but I have seen him on his knees, clutching the Worcester porcelain, moaning, after a vicious night on the lash.
He does get roaring drunk pretty easily. Hugh Scully used to say “all it takes is a sniff of the barmaid s apron and Henry’s away”.
Pity poor Fiona Bruce.
Huge Scullery.
Sadly his reputation for getting smashed effectively destroyed his career.
What about nice women? I nominate Catherine Deneuve, Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Jenny Agutter, Grace Kelly, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Wood, Claudia Cardinale and many others who will occur to me in due course. Every one of them terrifically nice.
Mamie Van Doren. She’s nice.
Lady Diana was a nice woman.
Joanna Lumley. My platonic idea of perfect crumpet at every stage of her life, and mine. Too bad it was never to be, as I’ve always been spoken for.
Kirsty Allsop – even if she does have the look of a frustrated domintrix
@rigid-digit
Not a very good dominatrix if she’s frustrated!
First The Word. Now after The Word. The Afterword in other words It must be the delightful, sassy Katie Puckrick.
Katie Puckrick @allium-sativum
I’ve, er, not thought about her in about 20 years:
I’m happy to reignite those feelings. There was the Pyjama party and the Magic Ball as well. What do people have for TV when they come back from the pub these days?
I had no idea who Katie was.
What a remarkable post-pub programme!
I was worried that this otherwise thoughtful and highbrow thread would descend into “crumpet” talk.
But while we’re here (and to be one of the lads,) I once unexpectedly met and talked with TV’s Annabel Giles. Very quick-witted and nicer than any reasonable nice person has a right to be.
Soz. ;(
Don’t be sad @mkethep !
I’m just curating the thread while munching on Corsair Tinned Chicken.
Google CORSAIR TINNED CHICKEN. Go on, do it now.
Nicest couple in Rock – definitely!
https://youtu.be/j4JuPUfnC38
Just who is the nicest man in the world?
I don’t know, but I do know that it isn’t me.
I am a cunt.
… and on that BOMBSHELL …
Nevertheless, you’re OUR kind of see you next Tuesday, & we wouldn’t have it any other way!
Footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa
My postmand Mick
Richard E Grant. Was gutted when he missed out on the Oscar.
Also, Tom Waits – but not in a ‘Michael Palin nice’ way.
I met Richard E Grant at a Who concert, he really was very nice.
He was in Sydney several years ago to Higgins it up in a stage version of “My Fair Lady” – I read an account from someone who said he was nice enough, but had a habit of “selecting” somebody and making them the scapegoat for any and all misfires, mistakes or general bits not going right.
Given that his sole film direction effort had a similar sort of scenario (as those who’ve read his account of its production would know), one wonders whether it’s a regular thing, or just happenstance in these two cases…?
Dave Gregory from XTC/ Big Big Train is probably the nicest man I’ve ever met.
Hmmm … Dave Gregory out of XTC … Wasn’t he once an item with top American songstress and Bachelor No.2 hitmaker Aimee Mann?
A bloke just delivered a truckload of rocks. His name was Lachlan Bethune. Only a really nice man, I submit, would have a name like that.
Sounds like he got your rocks off.
Dropped our rocks off.
He sounds like he drove straight out of an Alexander McCall Smith novel.
🙂
My son’s middle name is Lachlan, does that make him half nice?
Yes.
I always think it’s interesting to hear from not-so-famous actors who’ve worked with big names. The little-known Bronson Pinchot (he was in Beverly Hills Cop) doesn’t hold back on Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington, but he confirms that Tom Hanks is, indeed, a great guy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bronson-pinchot-bette-mid_n_328319?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJSB2solTlcjtjnJ5uzU8LGXq2CvhR6UaM3vuqe8uah3eIt3kmxRiQoJ0po5zlVNwzPnVekK5tMiDE6b3PQM_cLP5qr5jAxkHaHcOvGRmfpGU2Et2PomZEA5wCAgwQnDYe_Emxh0t8D-hFh84eKWmDCJzy49-8jd6hPGGDCGqSVS
Not Denzel. Please no.
He’s so twinkly!