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Article: Aids didn't kill off his lust for life
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- July 2, 2000
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On the eve of the publication of Derek Jarman's final diaries,
Nicholas De Jongh looks back at his friend's final days
IT was the first time I had been asked to take part in an orgy, I
seem to remember. And I felt I couldn't resist this opportunity to
broaden my narrow horizons. After all, I would just be one of a
crowd - and it was not as though the camera would pick on me.
It was the midst of the 1970s and Derek Jarman was in the midst
of filming Jubilee, in which Queen Elizabeth I returns to a
nightmare England. Derek had done his usual thing. Since his films
were made for next to nothing, he couldn't afford the luxury of
paying for film extras. Instead he recruited his non-actor ...