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poliphilo Jane Birkin died. She was very beautiful, she recorded a deliciously naughty song with her lover Serge Gainsbourg and (I didn't know this till today) inspired someone called Hermes to design a very large handbag which he proceeded to sell at a ridiculously inflated price...
The famous people who have been around for the full extent of my adult life are dying off in droves. I don't mourn them. It's no hardship to lay down this heavy load and swan off into eternity. and all of them will have done what they came here to do. There was one who went a week or so back I wanted to write about but didn't and now I forget who he or she was. Oh, yes, it was Glenda Jackson. Jonathan Pryce said she was the gretest actor this country (meaning Britain) had ever produced. And this was so final and so true I didn't see any point in either endorsing, qualifying or attempting to add to it.
They pass like landmarks seen from the windows of a train...
Another kind of passing happened yesterday. Novak Djokovic was defeated in the finals of Wimbledon. He went down to a young gun called Carlos Alcaraz. I want to say Alcazar. The reign of the three titans is over and a new age begins. Alcaraz is twenty. If his reign lasts as long as that of the titans I will probably have shuffled off this mortal coil myself before it ends. Djokovic may still have some winning to do because he is the most formidable winning machine the game has ever seen but he no longer looks immortal. I didn't watch the match but a report I read said you could see in real time how his age was catching up with him- and his grip and confidence were melting away.....
I never greatly warmed to him as a player, but I respect him as a person of conscience and integrity. He commands a higher fee for endorsing a product than either Federer or Nadal because it is known that he will only endorse things he personally approves and values. Also, his stand over the Covid jab was prophetic...
He is worth an insane amount of money. I wonder what he will do with it...
The famous people who have been around for the full extent of my adult life are dying off in droves. I don't mourn them. It's no hardship to lay down this heavy load and swan off into eternity. and all of them will have done what they came here to do. There was one who went a week or so back I wanted to write about but didn't and now I forget who he or she was. Oh, yes, it was Glenda Jackson. Jonathan Pryce said she was the gretest actor this country (meaning Britain) had ever produced. And this was so final and so true I didn't see any point in either endorsing, qualifying or attempting to add to it.
They pass like landmarks seen from the windows of a train...
Another kind of passing happened yesterday. Novak Djokovic was defeated in the finals of Wimbledon. He went down to a young gun called Carlos Alcaraz. I want to say Alcazar. The reign of the three titans is over and a new age begins. Alcaraz is twenty. If his reign lasts as long as that of the titans I will probably have shuffled off this mortal coil myself before it ends. Djokovic may still have some winning to do because he is the most formidable winning machine the game has ever seen but he no longer looks immortal. I didn't watch the match but a report I read said you could see in real time how his age was catching up with him- and his grip and confidence were melting away.....
I never greatly warmed to him as a player, but I respect him as a person of conscience and integrity. He commands a higher fee for endorsing a product than either Federer or Nadal because it is known that he will only endorse things he personally approves and values. Also, his stand over the Covid jab was prophetic...
He is worth an insane amount of money. I wonder what he will do with it...
