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Article: My latest film? I do ho ope you find it vulgar; Director Stephen Frears has always been interested in the dark side of British society. In Mrs Henderson Presents, he's gone for bawdy fun.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2005
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Byline: NICK CURTIS
IT IS a wet afternoon in Notting Hill and I have rung the doorbell of Stephen Frears's rambling townhouse several times. I have interviewed the 64-year-old film director before and, like many another journalist, have found him lugubrious, bordering on uncommunicative, but this is the first time I've heard of him not even opening the door.
Ah, but here is a rumpled, pouchyeyed-figure - looking, as Glenn Close once said, "like a stadium after the game" - huffing up the street. "Hello.
Sorry. Had a bit of a long lunch," he mutters, brushing aside a pile of post, scripts probably, in the hall. "Do those look interesting, do you ...