Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears has directed A Very English Scandal, about Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott, which will be broadcast on BBC1.

Letter

That’s Hollywood

20 December 1990

I was interested to read my article in the LRB (LRB, 20 December 1990). Not being an academic, I don’t have to apologise for the disorderliness of my mind, and the other half of a clearly divided personality had various subsequent thoughts.In the case of Donnie Brasco, the actors were right. Their instincts were better than mine. It was idiotic to try to set up a film about the Mafia half-way between...

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