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This Issue:
1. RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: Manchester United Int'l Mailing List Pics
2. The 2nd Coming Of Le Dieu (Mirror)
3. Robbo Wants Sheri (Mirror)
4. Foe To Join United? (Carling)
5. Pally Moves (D.Mail)
6. Some info about LKS Lodz
7. Cantona interview (Guardian)
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:28:45 +0200
From: Barry Leeming
Subject: RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: Manchester United Int'l Mailing List Pics
Bill McArthur from the Simplenet webteam has done a marvellous job
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Welcome to the Manchester United International Mailing List Member Pics page!
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:10:05 +0800
Reply-To: Red Devil Marcus
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From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: The 2nd Coming Of Le Dieu (Mirror)
CANTONA RETURNS FOR £1M UNITED FAREWELL
ERIC Cantona will hand Manchester United a £1million farewell gift in an
emotional official send-off next month.
The Old Trafford legend sensationally quit in silence 14 months ago to begin
his new acting career. But now he's set to return and take a final bow in a
testimonial for the Munich air crash survivors and their dependents.
Most have fallen on hard times 40 years after the tragedy that destroyed the
great Busby Babes. But Cantona-crazy fans have ensured a 55,000 sell-out,
which means gate receipts will swell the Munich trust fund by £1m.
Organisers also hope that TV rights will add another £500,000. And that will
delight Cantona, who is anxious to support the legends who paved the way for
his glorious reign at the club.
He will bring his European eleven to his old theatre of dreams on August 18.
Cantona plans to play the first half against his old pals and then for
United in the second. And that's bound to lead to a tug-of-war between old
king and new over who wears the famous No 7 shirt.
David Beckham is the current owner of the prized shirt but no-one would be
surprised if Cantona bows out in it, his collar turned up for one final
time.
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor, who is helping to organise the event,
said: "I think it's an indication of the special place that United and their
fans have in his heart that he's coming back for this one.
"Perhaps it's significant that he has chosen the opportunity to help other
former great players and their families as his Old Trafford farewell."
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:08:34 +0800
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From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: Robbo Wants Sheri (Mirror)
ROBBO IN THE HUNT TO LAND SHERI
By Alan Nixon
BRYAN Robson wants to sign Teddy Sheringham in his second raid on his old
club Manchester United.
The Middlesbrough boss is in talks with United for England World Cup star
Sheringham, whose Old Trafford future is in doubt.
Robson hopes to be successful again after persuading Alex Ferguson to part
with centre half Gary Pallister - and the move for striker Sheringham is
down to financial matters.
United want their money back on Sheringham - the £3.5million they paid
Tottenham for him a year ago.
Robson is offering less at the moment but is trying to find a compromise
figure.
Sheringham may not be keen to move to the north-east, but the alternative
seems to be sitting on the fringes of the United first team.
Ferguson left him out of his side at the end of last season and is planning
to bring in a new face to his attack before the campaign kicks off.
The nightclub incident that put Sheringham on the front pages before the
World Cup with after-hours drinking has not helped his cause, but is not the
main reason for any sale.
United are interested in recouping cash on Sheri before they re-invest, with
Argentinian Ariel Ortega their main target.
Robson is an admirer of Sheringham, 32, and is not worried about his age. He
already has veterans Paul Gascoigne and Paul Merson.
Boro are still looking for a top-class forward and Robson has the financial
muscle to see off any rivals for his signature.
Former Republic of Ireland international Andy Townsend is Boro's new
skipper.
Robson said: "Townsend has great experience. He was skipper with Norwich,
Southampton and Aston Villa, apart from the Republic.
"Townsend will be a worthy successor to Nigel Pearson, who was a great
leader before he retired last season.''
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:22:27 +0800
Reply-To: Red Devil Marcus
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From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: Foe To Join United? (Carling)
Comments: To: Red Devil List ,
Darul Kisai , Darul
To: MUFC@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Man United 8 Jul 1998
FOE MOVE IS ON
Broken leg victim Marc-Vivien Foe's £4M move to Manchester United is still
on.
The 22-year-old Cameroon international, whose injury cost him a place in the
World Cup, will join Alex Ferguson's training squad later this month.
The Lens star had the plaster removed from his leg a fortnight ago and
Ferguson said: ``There is no point in giving Foe a medical. We need to know
how he looks on the pitch.''
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 21:52:14 +0800
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From: Red Devil Marcus
Subject: Pally Moves (D.Mail)
Gary gets pally with Robbo again
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
Gary Pallister has completed his £2.5million move back to Middlesbrough from
Manchester United.
The 33-year-old former England centre-half has agreed a three-year contract
with Boro nine years after he left Teesside in a then British record
£2.3million switch to Old Trafford.
Boro boss Bryan Robson has been a huge admirer of Pallister since they
played together for United and England, and he was delighted to have finally
got his man.
Robson claimed Pallister would strengthen his defence following the
departure of Derek Whyte for Aberdeen last season and the retirement of
Nigel Pearson.
'Pally has great experience and has been a winner at Manchester United and I
hope that he will bring some of that to Middlesbrough,' he said.
'With Derek Whyte leaving the club last season and Nigel Pearson retiring,
we needed someone to provide competition for the centre-back places with
Gianluca Festa and Steve Vickers.
'I'm sure Pally will prove to be a great signing.'
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:53:41 +0200
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From: Grzegorz Tajchman
Subject: Some info about LKS Lodz
To: MUFC@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Hello there!
LKS Lodz will most probably be the oponent of Manchester United in
the Champions League preliminary round, so here comes some info about
the Polish side...
Although LKS is one of the best teams United could draw at this stage
(IMHO only Club Bruges and Dynamo Kiev are better), the Red Devils
should have no problems with getting to the Champions League.
LKS Lodz was founded in 1908 and in the 90th year of prosperity they
won the championship of Polish League for the second time (first one in
1958).
Before the 1997/98 season they were considered to be "the third power"
in the Polish League, as the first two places were reserved to Legia
Warsaw and Widzew Lodz. But due to the crisis in these teams during
spring '98, LKS gained the trophy (while Legia Warsaw and Widzew Lodz
won't start in the European Cups).
It's hard to say something about the standard of Polish League in
comparison to other european leagues. I think that most relevant will be
the results in European Cups in the last years.
Well, in the Champions League 95/96 Legia Warsaw reached the
quarter-final (after receiving 4 pts from Blackburn Rovers). In season
96/97 Widzew Lodz played in the CL, but they didn't manage to get from
the group stage (but showed some good football against Dortmund and Atl.
Madrid). In the previous season Widzew Lodz faced AC Parma in the CL
preliminary round, but had no chances in that confrontation.
In the UEFA or Cup Winners Cup Polish teams have recently failed to
promote more than to 2nd round. I hope things are going to change soon,
as really strong team is being formed (Wisla Krakow - UEFA Cup).
In my opinion the squad of LKS Lodz right now is weaker than other
Polish teams' starting in the European competitions before. One of LKS'
best players in last season - left defender Tomasz Klos - has recently
been sold to AJ Auxerre. Best striker - 19 years old Saganowski - had a
motorcycle accident and won't be playing for a long time.
Of course the squad is going to be strengthened. I heard the rumours
about the interest in FC Porto striker Mielcarski and former Betis
Sevilla player Kowalczyk. The president of the LKS owns a football
school with plenty of brasilian youngsters, some of whom could also be
arranged. If any transfer is completed I will inform you.
The best formation of LKS is (was ?) defence. LKS has lost the
fewest (23) goals in Polish League last season. It's also due to the
good goalkeeper (Wyparlo). Attack played very good too, where Trzeciak
(9 goals) and Saganowski (11 goals) where the terror of Polish
defenders. As mentioned, Saganowski is currently injured and won't play
against United, Trzeciak is said to be leaving the club.
Very interesting player in the team is brazilian attacking
midifielder Rodrigo Carbone. Good technic, quite fast and effective (9
goals) - that's enough to be a star in Polish League. He will probably
be transferred soon, as most standing out players in Poland.
That's all for now. I think that the LKS Lodz will be strengthened
before games with Manchester United. I will keep you up-to-date with it.
And one more thing: LKS is much more weaker than United, but they won't
give up without fight. Consider yourself warned ;).
I'm waiting for any comments or questions about LKS Lodz and Polish
football.
Greg
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Grzegorz Tajchman
gregus@polbox.com
Rzeszow, Poland
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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 18:53:25 -0700
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Subject: Cantona interview (Guardian)
Ou est Cantona?
As a footballer Eric Cantona attracted adoration and controversy in equal
measure. Then, at the height of his fame, he quit and announced he wanted
to be a movie star. Jean-Pierre Lavoignat talked to him in Mexico City on
the set of his first major film.
Suddenly there is something electric in the air. He is here. Wearing a
red suit, a multi-coloured shirt and white shoes, Eric Cantona walks out in
front of the projector. It is just 10 days
before the shooting of Mookie, his new movie, finishes yet you feel his
presence here in front of the cameras is still experienced as an event.
When the adored Manchester United striker quit football last year and
announced he wanted to be a movie star it was the opportunity director
Hervé Palud had been waiting for. A year earlier he had seen Le bonheur est
dans le pré (Happiness Is In The Meadow), the 1996 comedy in which Cantona
had a small part as a rugby-playing Romeo, and wanted him to play the hero
in a comedy-adventure he was writing. Cantona's decision to retire left the
way open and Palud met him straight away to explain his project. In June
1997 Cantona signed the contract.
He plays a boxer transformed by chance into a guardian angel, making a nun
and a talking monkey cross his path: a talking monkey that is coveted by
all the scientists in the world. Mookie (named after the little monkey)
is released in December. But what compels a football star to want to devote
himself to the cinema? I went to Mexico to ask him . . .
"Ten days from the end of shooting Mookie, how do you feel?"
"Fine, and rather relieved. Because what we've been able to see of what's
been shot so far looks good. We're quite proud of what we've done."
"What's been hardest right through the filming?"
"Nothing. Nothing's been hard. Everything's been quite straightforward and
has gone smoothly."
"Were you nervous the first day?"
"Not nervous, no. But you don't really know where you're going. After all,
it's a new thing for me. Something of the unknown. But I'm surrounded by
good people: there's Hervé, there's Jacques [Villeret] who's made lots of
films, acted in lots of plays. That's reassuring."
"Was it there while you were shooting Mookie that you realised, 'That's it,
my life really has changed, I've moved on to another stage' "?
"No, I realised that the day decided to stop playing football. Today I
just think, 'That's it, I'm here! It's up to me to do what have to do.' "
"In fact the first role you played, a short one, after deciding to give up
football, was in an English costume film, Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur. What
made you decide to do it?"
"I liked the screenplay. It was an international film, at least European.
The cast was extraordinary: Fanny Ardant (even if I never had a scene with
her, unfortunately), Vincent Cassel, Richard Attenborough, Geoffrey Rush.
And then they asked me to play the French ambassador. Coming from the
streets as do, it was a great challenge. A role I had to make up [he
laughs]."
"What are your memories of it?"
"Good, especially of Richard Attenborough. He's a great man, with real
quality and immense talent. We talked football a lot. He's always been a
keen Chelsea supporter."
"I imagine you got a lot of offers as soon as you announced you wanted to
work in films. What made you choose Mookie?"
"The first thing is that Un Indien dans la ville [An Indian In The
Cupboard, Palud's 1995 film] is my 9-year-old son's favourite film. He must
have seen it 50 times and he knows all the
dialogue by heart. So to start with it was to please him. Especially as
he would have preferred me to carry on playing football! So starting with a
film by Hervé Palud was some compensation - some of my son's esteem for him
rubbed off on me. [He laughs.] Then the screenplay finally convinced me,
even if it wasn't finished when I accepted."
"How would you define the character you play in the film?"
"Someone with a mission, who goes right through with things - he's a pure,
sensitive fellow."
"That could be a good definition of you."
"Ye-es, though perhaps not always. Anyway I think there's a nice contrast
between Jacques's character and mine, and that works well."
"Do you remember the moment when you asked yourself: 'Why not make films?' "
"I think I always wondered that. Always. As soon as I started playing
football there were always times where I invented stories, made my own
films."
"Meaning?"
"I made up stories, I dreamt about different lives, I put myself into the
skin of different characters. In fact I've always wanted to work in films.
I don't know if I'll do it for the rest of my life, but I'm pleased to be
doing it today. If I'd started out with films, I'd never have been able to
be a footballer! [He laughs.]"
"Do you remember the first film you ever saw?"
"I don't know if it was the first film saw but the first one I remember is
The Towering Inferno. I went with my family. It was a good show."
"In your autobiography you describe how you had Bruce Lee posters in your
bedroom."
"In the district of Marseilles where we lived when I was little, there was
one cinema and they only showed that kind of film, Bruce Lee films and so
on, and I went to see them all. I loved it! I'd put the Bruce Lee poster
across the window in my bedroom to cover up a broken window pane which I'd
smashed playing with my football."
"You've often said that Isabelle Adjani is one of your favourite actresses.
What do you like about her?"
"I don't know. It's hard to say why you like someone. I like all her films,
I think she's beautiful. I don't know her, I've never met her, but
something emanates from her that appeals to me.
[Silence.]"
"How would you define it?"
[Thinking.] "She's someone who seems to me incredibly genuine. Yes, that's
it, incredibly genuine."
"When people ask you about your favourite actors, the names of Brando,
Mickey Rourke, De Niro, Depardieu often crop up." What appeals to you in
general about those actors?"
"What appeals to me? [Thinks.] What emanates from them. They all have
something special they make felt. They're men who have a powerful energy.
An energy and a personality you feel in their movements, their speech,
their eyes. When you see a film with them in it, you're always sure that at
some point something will happen, thanks to them. There's something animal
about them, something instinctive. Even if you sense there's a lot of work
behind it, they have great freedom. They have that something, which makes
them stand out. Either you've got it or you haven't!"
"Have you met any of those actors?"
"Only Mickey Rourke."
"Was he like you'd imagined him?"
[Silence]. "I don't know if he was like I'd imagined him. But what a
character!"
"Obviously he's not having the career people thought he would 10 years ago.
Are you not afraid of the kind of fate - like Maradona's in football -
where the temptation towards the heights seems to get the upper hand over
actual achievement?"
"No. They're men who live the way they are. They've gone through things,
they've come back from difficult times, they'll come back again. Maradona
will be back too, though perhaps not as a player. They are living beings,
the lives they lead measure up to their personalities, their talents.
[Silence.] I don't know if I'm that type of person, but in any case it's
not something I'm afraid of, no. The important thing is to be what you are
yourself, without worrying about what people can say or do to you, just be
yourself. Live the way you want to live. It's not always easy. But if
people think less of you some day, well at least you'll have done what you
wanted to do."
"What do you expect from films?"
"What I expect from films? [Visibly surprised, he is silent for a long
time.] What interests me is acting. Acting in well-made films that appeal
to people, that people go and see. The most
important thing for me is acting."
"What do you like about acting? Being someone else? Or the opposite, going
deeper into what you are?"
"What I like about acting is the very fact of acting, playing a part. You
use the word playing both in football and films. In life you play the whole
time. Moreover, that's why I've never taken all that very seriously. In
fact, like a game. At the same time, as I'm quite reserved in my own life,
film-making is a means of expression that suits me well, which brings me
out of my reserve more easily, letting me do what can't manage to do in
every day life."
"Such as?"
"Communicating with other people. If I'm alone with myself, or with
something that inspires me, feel can go a long way - which isn't the case
when I'm no longer completely on my own. So films enable me to do it with
other people. They enable me not to be completely alone in that state."
"Bette Davis used to say that a lot of actors had become actors because
they couldn't stand themselves."
"It's not that with me. I can put up with myself fairly well, but sometimes
I'd like to get on better in a social group, to be much more at ease with
other people."
"What do you think you lack that would make that possible?"
"I don't know. But I do really try. What's more, if I didn't try . . ."
"You wouldn't be here?"
"Exactly! [He laughs.]"
"There's something very contradictory about you, and perhaps it's that
which makes you an actor: a mixture of great reserve and a desire to make
an exhibition of yourself."
"I'd like to be able to give whatever it is that's deep down inside me, but
often through shyness, distrust or whatever else it might be, it doesn't
know how to express itself."
"You think films may help you to show it?"
"I hope so"
"Before shooting Mookie you spent two months training for the boxing
scenes. What memories do you have of that?"
"It's a hard sport. Physically and mentally. And technically. It's a sport
that requires a lot of intelligence, observation. Boxing's got everything.
If I was younger I'd have kept it up."
"You played in a short film by Richard Aujard, Question d'honneur, with
Jake La Motta. Had you seen Raging Bull which tells La Motta's story?"
"Yes, he's a real monument. A great character. He's someone like a lot.
That short film was something we'd been wanting to do for a long time."
"On the set, what kind of actor are you? For example in Mookie did you
rehearse a lot before the takes?"
"Not too much. don't like that much. I prefer to work by instinct, on the
truth of the situation. At the outset Hervé and I talked about the
character, we got a picture of him. Now I've really understood what he
wanted, it's up to me to find how to do it. Of course that doesn't prevent
us from arguing about the situation or the spirit of a scene. really need a
great deal of direction. need to give what I am, or what I have deep down
in me, but I also need someone to help me do it. For my first film I'm glad
I came across someone like Hervé."
"Why?"
"Because he directs me while still leaving me a lot of freedom of
manoeuvre. And then acting with Jacques is very, very reassuring. He's a
great actor. And a nice person."
"And having to act with a monkey, does that create special problems?"
"Not for me, no! But for the crew, what with him and me, they've got two
beginners on their hands! [He Laughs.]"
"Do you think all the commercials you did were a kind of training for your
new profession as an actor?"
"Yes, of course. They got me used to the camera, with all the crew around .
. . like acting. But then was playing football. I didn't really have time
to devote to it. turned up for the shoot for one day, and that was it. But
liked it, like movie cameras . ."
.
"Is the camera a mirror for you? A partner?"
"I don't really know . . . What I do know is that somewhere it excites me,
it attracts me."
"And did you know that the first day you faced one?"
"Yes, I know how am when I'm with people and how I become in front of a
camera. But today I know it has to be with a precise objective, otherwise
it's a real danger."
"Why a danger?"
"When you're in front of a television camera, people talk to you, flatter
you, charm you. So of course you can't help liking it. But meanwhile you
risk getting lost in it. Later on you wonder if you were taken for a ride,
if you didn't give too much of yourself, for nothing, just to please them!
But what did it bring you? What way did it feed you? Of course you can
always do it protecting yourself, but then you end up saying nothing, so
what use is it appearing? That's why I don't want to do it any more now,
even if never did it that much."
"Aren't films the same thing?"
"No, because it's not just about giving information. You give something of
yourself through a character, with the aim of telling a story, conveying a
feeling."
"In any case one thing is sure, the camera likes you too. Are you aware of
that?"
"It may be cocky to say so, but yes,I am! I think it's something inborn.
Sometimes I even think that if I was to learn, really learn, I'd be much
less good, I think I move quite naturally."
"But it's not just gestures, there's a capacity for emotion . . ."
"I don't think gestures and movements are possible without emotion. You
can't start moving naturally in a situation without experiencing the
emotion. It's the movement that brings about the emotion, not the emotion
that brings about the movement."
"What do you think is your greatest asset as an actor?"
"Perhaps taking things as they come. Naturally. Taking them for exactly
what they are: a game!"
"Your last two commercials, which refer ironically to the World Cup, were
made by John Woo [director of Face Off]. How did you come to meet him?"
"Er . . . We didn't meet! [He laughs.] He shot the commercial in Brazil and
at the last minute I couldn't get there, it was his assistant who came to
Barcelona to shoot the scenes with me."
"When you were asked to play a small role in Le bonheur est dans le pré
were you surprised?"
"No, very few things really surprise me. Once you're known things like that
happen all the time. Perhaps just because they saw I could do something,
that could give what was expected of the character . . ."
"In that film you play the role of rugby player . . ."
". . . and in Mookie I'm a boxer. But not a footballer!"
"Why?"
"Because it's a situation I've experienced with far too much pleasure to
act it, to be able to reinvent that pleasure for films."
"Finally, today at the age of 32 you are starting a new career from
scratch, but at the same time you're not a complete innocent."
"Yes, I'm coming with a lot behind me. I mean something in another context.
It's an advantage. And a handicap too! It's as if I were in the situation
of being a great actor's son. It helps get him through the early stages,
but it's up to him to prove himself. Some succeed, others don't. So I'll
succeed if I'm good, if I'm really good."
"At one time you said you were going to go to acting classes. Did you do
it?"
"In fact I really will if ever I go on the stage. To learn technical
things. How to make your voice carry, for example."
"Weren't you going to do A Streetcar Named Desire on the stage?"
"Yes, but we didn't get copyright permission. We're trying to get
permission to do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
"You're a star, but you're setting out on uncharted territory. Does that
challenge excite you?"
"Yes, of course it's exciting to have everything to prove. I'm trying to
build up something else outside football. New ground is always stimulating
. . . But don't worry. I'm not willing to do
absolutely anything so that people see my mug on the screen."
"You're not frightened about how film people will react to seeing you
arriving in their midst?"
"No, not at all. They may react like some people in football when they
confront success and a refusal to bow down . . . but I'll remain a free man."
"And will you be frightened of the critics?"
"No. If I'd been frightened of the critics, I'd have been out of things
long ago. Quite the opposite, the only influence they can have on me is to
make me bounce back."
"A stupid question: If you were going off to a desert island, what film
would you take with you?"
[He starts to think, and suddenly his face lights up with an impish smile.]
"Ah! if it really was a desert island, 9 Weeks! [Laughs.]"
"Have you seen Wim Wenders' The Goalkeeper's Fear Of The Penalty?"
"No, but it's more the shooter's fear before the penalty. The goalie has
everything to play for. Either he stops the goal and he's a champion, or he
doesn't stop it and it was because he didn't have a chance . . . [He
laughs.]"
"More seriously, are there films that have stayed with you throughout your
life? The Godfather, Once upon A Time In America, for example?"
"Yes, I've seen all those films. But I'm almost a . . . what's the word? A
neophyte. A fine word, isn't it? I'm not a chap who's seen 5,000 films, I
don't remember the names of the directors or actors. Even the plots, I
forget them very quickly! In fact, when I read a book, when I see a film,
it always comes down to me."
"What do you mean?"
"It's always what inspires me that's important. I read a book, I watch a
film, and my mind escapes. It inspires me, it feeds me. I receive energy
from it that takes me out of the film or the
story to experience my own adventure, with my own enthusiasm. That's
something I've inherited from my father, I always felt that capacity in
him; in a second he could vanish completely, be elsewhere, he was
travelling. It's not always easy for the people around you to live with.
But from a purely selfish point of view, what that can lead you to
experience, or to create, is a good thing."
"Do you have other film projects?"
"Not at present. One-and-a-half films a year is enough for me. It's a
good working pace."
"One-and-a-half films?"
"Eric Cantona: A leading role like in Mookie and a small role like in
Elizabeth. If things carry on like that, it will be perfect. [He laughs.]"
"Will you feel any apprehension when you show your son Mookie?"
"Oh, he criticises me all the time anyway. [He laughs.] That's the way it
is. It really proves he's at ease with me, that he can say anything to me.
I've always aimed for that. I'm proud he's like that! I'll have no
apprehension about showing him Mookie because know he'll love it. No
question."
"In film-making today don't you feel like a prince in exile?"
"What do you mean?"
"A bit like those kings who leave their country voluntarily because the
position has become untenable, but who always miss it?"
"Do you mean in connection with football?"
"Yes."
"No, because I had lost the passion to carry on. At the same time know I
can go back when I want to. But as I've told you, right now I'm very happy
in films."
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linda@eccles.u-net.com
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