Entertainment For Lively Minds
Tom Baker In Confidence
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 29 July 2011 - 11:30pm.
If any of you need any more proof that Tom Baker is the greatest living Englishman, this fantastic interview provides it.
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What a guy!
Love his voice, candour and vocabulary. Thanks for posting, this is great.
Nicest man I ever served..
I used to work in a huge bookshop in the centre of Manchester. One late, wet Tuesday evening the great man walked in clutching two groaning carrier bags from the branch of Oddbins opposite and asked if he could leave them with me whilst he browsed...
An hour later he approached the counter with a hefty pile of books, stumped up, collected his wine and said, 'Fine wine and good books. What more can a man ask of life. Good day..'
What more?
A beautiful woman, and Belgian chocolates?
What a nice man #2
Many years I dropped a package off at his house just behind Westbourne Grove (close to the old Stiff Records offices).
It was during his tenure as Dr. Who (1974-81) so it was such a thrill when the great man opened the door, complete with big hair and addressed me in those familiar stentorian tones.
I bloody love Tom Baker
Thank you Patrick for posting this up.
He made
Titties Tingle.
Brothers and sisters, that is something we should all aspire to do.
aside: Can they not find some way of shoehorning Tom into an episode of the new Dr Who? That would unleash immense good vibes would it not?
under-valued
under-exposed
genius
We've still got
the audio book of him reading his "Who on Earth" autobiography. It's always a good listen. Only available on cassette. And the mp3s I made of the cassette...
I'd love to hear him wrap his sonorous tonsils...
around the bit involving "Bertha Noonan" and "wanking school".
Ah, there doesn't seem to be a private message
facility around here.
Given it's impossible to buy this as far as I can see I'm happy to, erm, facilitate access if you get an email address to me (via Fraser?)
there is
it's just on people's homepage equivalents. I haven't enabled it, Patrick may have enabled his.
so there is
mine is already enabled. So there we have it ladies and gentlemen...
Andrew Collins of this parish
met hime once and I think his opening line was 'Nicholas Parsons. What a cunt!'
He was my hero when I was a kiddie and still is
A national treasure
I nearly said institution, but I would say he's had enough of those to shape his views on authority and religion, of which he's particularly scathing on his website.
I'd love to see an update to his autobiography with perhaps the philosophy of Tom Baker as added food for thought.
I went out with a girl once who smelt like a bonfire