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I did two weeks of narration.
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It was like the purest
kind of filmmaking.
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You know, just a Sennheiser microphone
and a Nagra, that's all he had.
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No operator. It was Stanley
pushing the button, that was it.
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And it was highly you know,
concentrated, so I'd say:
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"I've got to stretch my legs, Stanley. "
And he'd say, "Ping-pong. "
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He was always trying to beat me,
he never did, not at ping-pong.
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Chess, another matter.
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So we'd have fun, we'd play,
and we'd come back. . .
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. . .we'd do another piece.
The voice-over works well.
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So about six months later,
my agent said:
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"Malcolm, you have two weeks of
voice-over you haven't been paid for. "
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I went, "I'm going out to see
Stanley this afternoon.
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I'll mention it to him. "
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Leaving, I think I said,
"By the way, my agent informs me. . .
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. . .that I haven't been paid
for the two weeks' narration. "
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He had a slide rule in his pocket
and he took it out.
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He went like this, and he went:
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"I'll pay you for a week. "
I went, "A week?"
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He goes, "The other week
was ping-pong! "
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Oh, bliss!
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Bliss and heaven!
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It was gorgeousness and
gorgeosity made flesh.
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It was like a bird
of rarest spun heaven metal.
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Or like silvery wine
flowing in a spaceship...
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...gravity all nonsense now.
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As I slooshied...
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...I knew such lovely pictures.
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Stanley and Malcolm McDowell got
along like a house on fire.
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Stanley was very happy
with the choice of Malcolm. . .
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. . .and he delivered.
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We became very, very close.
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l, of course, thought that this
was a great friendship.
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I expected to be part of his life.