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don't cross the kremlin. to anybody who may be planning, thinking of an insurrection or a coup, don't do it, because you see what the results are. ,, ., , , because you see what the results are. ,, , ., ~ _, gcse results were out today for hundreds of thousands of students in england, wales and northern ireland. the proportion getting top grades has fallen from last year but is still higher than before the pandemic. pass rates in england, wales and northern ireland are down for a second year running. 68.2% of exams were marked at grade 4 — that's a c grade. in wales and northern ireland the drop is slightly smaller. in england, nearly 27% of this year's results were grade 7 or above, but regions varied. in london, it was 28.4%. in the north east of england, i7.6%. over 390,000 certficates were awarded to students studying btecs and vocational technical
"i'm not a great reader. you have to show me, you have to tell me. and then i can sort of go wherever i need to go. and so for me, my interest in learning was lit by her saying, "you can't just do nothing." how did it inspire you? and what...? it inspired me to ask questions, to say, "i don't understand, "can you help me understand?" or, "what's the most interesting thing i need to know about this?" and, you know, in the �*60s, you could do stuff like that. things were free. public lectures? public lectures on all kinds of crazy stuff. so you were mixing with adults a lot during the daytime when, ordinarily, you would be at school. some. you were later known as a comic storyteller on stage. yes. were you drawing on some of those people that you met on the streets, on the people around you, in the community? just people i passed, you know? i would love to tell you it was as organised as you're... ..as you're talking about it, but it wasn't.
"great." he says, "you don't know what i'm talking about, do you?" isaid, "no." he said, "i want you to bring your show to new york "and i want to produce it." and i said, "wait, wait a minute, are you sure? "because, you know, i'm not always good, "you saw me on a good night." i said, "i'm not sure." he said, "well, think about it, think about it." and i said, "what if i'm terrible?" he said, "have you been terrible before?" isaid, "oh, yeah, many times." he said, "then you'll be terrible again. "here are the dates, i would like to do this." and i said, "ok," and hung up, called my mother and said, "i think mike nicholsjust invited me to come back to new york." she said, "i told you." and so i went back, and... ..there is no greater experience than having someone like mike... ..sit and listen, because he would say... ..in the theatre for rehearsal, he would say, i'd be onstage and i'd be doing it,
for other reasons? yes, i went there for a guy. and ijust happened to fall into... ..all the folks at the san diego rep. sure. he worked with them. and later, in 1984, you met the oscar—winning director mike nichols, who made the graduate and who's afraid of virginia woolf? and this is the next significant moment that we're going to discuss. how did you meet him? i was invited to do a series of monologues, and the first night, there were maybe four people in the audience, because nobody knew who i was, and then someone wrote a wonderful review about me in the new york times... right. ..which shocked me. but it was like, "wow, great." and then suddenly, the houses were full. and one day, my mother said to me — �*cos we would walk over to the theatre, cos it was in the old neighbourhood — and she said, "i don't ever want to tell you what i know, "but. _ _ ,,
and steven stood up and started applauding. he said, 'i...' he said, "i'd never thought of it that way." assimilation — someone coming from somewhere else and having to fit in. he said, "it's one of the best things i think i've ever heard "having to do with et." ironically, subverting the story of one of steven spielberg's best—loved films got you the role in his next movie. well, let's say it helped. celie, no! until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble. don't do it, miss c. don't trade places with what i've been through. come on, miss celie. let's go to the car.
looking good, my name is fontaine. and love is my game. and when i kiss the girls, hey, they all aflame. come on, let me kiss your hand. no, the one with the diamonds on it. laughter and he ends up - going across to europe and ends up in amsterdam, at the anne frank house. and i ran to the door, but i got stopped by a big sign...that said, "in spite of everything, i still believe "people are good at heart." i say, "what?!" i mean, who put this up? why would they put it in this room, huh? i just couldn't understand it, you know? so i copped am attitude, decided to write a letter to the author of the quote so i got up close enough to see the author's name and myjaw dropped cos it said, "anne frank." and i thought, "this is too childish forwords, man." and as soon as i said that, it made perfect sense. of course anne frank could say that. she was a child, she was a kid. and, you know, no matter what you do to children,
and so now i'm like, "ok, so these people, "they're a regular old audience, "i'm not going to think about it" but my agent — my newly minted agent — said to me, "now, look. "just do your show. "don't do anything extra — just do the show". so, i do the show and they're laughing, they're having a great time, and i'm thinking, "oh, my god! "they think i'm good!" and it goes on and on, and they say, "more" and i think, "oh, this is not a good thing." isaid, "well, no, i don't really have any..." "oh, no — more, more." and i'm like, "oh, no!" ithink, "ok, i have one more thing. "but they told me not to do it, so i don't really think i should do it", and of course, that was the wrong thing to say. and they said, "you must do it now". it's like, "ah!" so i say, "it's called blee t."
about it, but it wasn't. i was lucky enough to have been around a lot of different people. and when i decided that i needed to create characters, ijust kind of thought back to people i'd met, or people i'd seen, because, you know, i wanted to... i wanted to be in theatres and stuff. and if you weren't, you know, a good auditioner, or you were not as sharp as some, but there were things you could do, i had to find a way to show what i was able to do. you say you went to a lot of free public projects, lectures, museums, but what about theatre, which is not free? well, it wasn't free, no, you're right. but it was free sometimes in the evenings, becausejoe papp used to have a travelling theatre company that went around new york city and did all the great shakespeare plays.