Sublime

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Sidney Poitier, who else? He lives in Nassau and is hoping to hop over next week to spend a couple of days with us. Michael Caine was coming from London, but he has been laid low with the ’flu and doesn’t feel up to the transatlantic flight. Mike is not the only ’flu victim. Roddy Mann, Sunday Express columnist and an

And so to bed, where I will spend most of the next twenty-four hours. Tonight, with my lovely Luisa, and tomorrow with Jane, surrounded by lights, cameras and a small army of technicians when we shoot our love scene.

At seven o’clock this evening, the phone rang. It was ‘Crackers’, saying with qualifying caution learned from years in the picture business: ‘All being equal, that is, if the rushes are okayed tomorrow afternoon from London, you are finished on the picture.’