The Kenneth Williams Diaries

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Kenneth knew he went too far too often. Once we had him to supper with the head of an Oxford college, a woman he professed himself eager to meet. He liked the idea of conversation with academics. First he charmed her, then, as the drink and the devil got to him, he appalled her with a stream of the crudest obscenities. He recognised that this outlandish behaviour drove friends away, but somehow he couldn’t stop himself. One of his oldest chums was the film director John Schlesinger, who had been with Kenneth, and Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols, in Combined Services Entertainments in the Far East in the 1940s, putting on those concert parties so brilliantly evoked in Nichols’s Privates on Parade. John hadn’t seen Kenneth for some years, so we invited them for a meal. John was apprehensive, fearing an evening of self-indulgent self-centred queeniness. In the event, Kenneth was on his best behaviour, twinkling, nostalgic, affectionate, fun. John suggested a rematch at his house and, when it came, Kenneth was at his worst. He started loud and funny, but as the night wore on grew ever louder, more raucous and less amusing. The problem, I sensed, was that, at John’s, Alan Bennett was part of the party and was so delightful, so gently droll, that Kenneth couldn’t cope with the competition and couldn’t bear himself for seeing it as competition.The evening was a flop and John and Kenneth, once such friends, never saw each other again. Sophia Bush recalls TERRIFYING paranormal experience while living with Austin Nichols in 'creepy haunted apartment': 'We both started to scream!' Milo Ventimiglia is married! The This Is Us actor, 46, 'secretly tied the knot' with Jarah Mariano, 38, earlier this year Israel says it has killed 'dozens of terrorists' during 'fierce' fighting 'deep' inside Gaza as soldiers scour streets for gunmen amid raging battles in bid to free hostages from Hamas' tunnel network Storm Ciaran: Halloween festivities could be hampered as weather warning issued to Britain with residents in Northern Ireland told to stay indoors before the arrival of heavy showers and high winds TOMORROW

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