:11:00
Yes. With your permission, of course.
:11:03
Why not ? You seem to be a personable
enough young man-- nicely spoken,
:11:08
neatly dressed in brand-new
country gentleman's clothing.
:11:11
I'm sure you won't mind me asking you
a few questions about your background--
:11:14
parents and so forth.
:11:17
My mother was born in Hereford,
a farmer's daughter,
:11:21
And my father is an Italian who came
to this country in the '30s from Genoa.
:11:26
- In the '30s. Jewish ?
- No, catholic-- very devout.
:11:30
Of course, I'm not
religious at all myself.
:11:32
My dear boy, you don't have to excuse
yourself to me. We're all liberals here.
:11:36
I have no prejudice against catholics,
Not even lapsed catholics.
:11:40
In fact, some of my best friends
are lapsed catholics.
:11:45
But tell me about your father.
Was his name Tindle too ?
:11:47
No, his name was Tindolini.
:11:50
But if you had a name
like that in those days,
:11:52
you had to make-a de ice cream-a.
:11:54
He was a watchmaker,
:11:57
and he wanted us to become
English, so he changed it.
:11:59
"Become" English.
:12:03
Was he a successful man ?
:12:05
No. As a matter of fact, he wasn't.
:12:08
You can't expect to make a living
these days just repairing watches.
:12:12
He went broke in the end.
I always told him he would.
:12:15
Hmm. Well, it must make him
something of a burden to you.
:12:20
Yeah, it-it does a bit.
:12:22
He never went back, you see.
:12:25
He's still in Soho, still thinks
he had it good all those years.
:12:28
And you-- what do you do ?
:12:31
Don't you know ?
:12:34
I have a hairdressing salon in South
Kensington-- Casa tindolini.
:12:39
Oh, you can use that word
these days, can you ?
:12:41
People don't take it for an ice-cream salon ?
- No, the birds--
:12:44
the ladies seem to like
the continental touch.
:12:47
English too wholesome for them, eh ?
:12:49
Yeah, well, it's-- it's not chic, you see.
:12:52
We found that it pays to provide
the latin lover atmosphere.
:12:57
Of course, we lay it on a bit thicker in the
Brighton shop. They're less sophisticated.