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Sir Alec Guinness. Hamish Hamilton. [pounds]16.99. 246 pages. ISBN 0-241-13788-8.

'They tell me,' said the young male nurse, 'you used to be quite somebody in the art world'. Arrested in the act of dropping his pants for a medical inspection, Sir Alec recalled a fellow thespian, long departed, being accosted in Piccadilly: 'Didn't you used to be Ernest Thesiger?' 'Still am!' retorted the elderly, aristocratic actor and friend of royalty as he hurried on. Bowing low as 'Sir Guin' made his exit from a Chinese restaurant, the head waiter, 'full of Chinese smiles,' felt able to reassure one of the luminaries of the British theatre that 'now Star Wars is being shown ...

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