Clive James
Birth Name: Vivian Leopold James
While at Cambridge, Clive began a fruitful songwriting partnership with Pete Atkin. With Clive's lyrics and Pete's vocals and musical settings, they released six critically-acclaimed but com ...Show More
I try to see everything that Idris Elba has done since he knocked me out in Sur écoute (2002) Show more
I try to see everything that Idris Elba has done since he knocked me out in Sur écoute (2002): he is the most kingly British star since Richard Burton, and acts rather better. But even the majestic Idris is at the mercy of the script. It must give him status, or his stature is wasted. Hide
The Americans are the ones who've surprised us. When I was a TV critic, it was just axiomatic that A Show more
The Americans are the ones who've surprised us. When I was a TV critic, it was just axiomatic that American TV was worthless. Now the box sets coming out of America, I've got a room full of them. I watch them all the time. Hide
Television talked about everything, so I thought if I talk about television I'll be talking about ev Show more
Television talked about everything, so I thought if I talk about television I'll be talking about everything too. Hide
As a Denzel Washington fan, I try to see every movie he has made. When I was still flying, I would w Show more
As a Denzel Washington fan, I try to see every movie he has made. When I was still flying, I would watch a Denzel movie two or three times on the trot, just to study the way he timed a sardonic smile - even today, I time a sardonic smile at my granddaughter's dog. Hide
I had a great time as a critic. It was like writing a poem, actually. Writing a column and writing a Show more
I had a great time as a critic. It was like writing a poem, actually. Writing a column and writing a poem are very similar. The essay and the poem are very close forms, you really, really try to pack it tight. And the column was packed tight. It had a joke paragraph and a serious paragraph. I write poems the same way; I think, "What comes next? How do I end this?" Hide
Searching through my Netflix hoard, I accidentally fell into a pit called The Last Heist (2016), a m Show more
Searching through my Netflix hoard, I accidentally fell into a pit called The Last Heist (2016), a mess that would be of zero interest if it did not attempt to combine two normally distinct plot formats: the gang of highly organized thieves cracks the vault, but there is inside it a psycho who collects eyeballs. This particular shambles might even have been worth the time that I risked my own eyeballs watching it, if it had contained even a single actor I wanted to see. Hide
Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.
Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.
There's no question that the center of television has been hollowed out by reality shows, which I ne Show more
There's no question that the center of television has been hollowed out by reality shows, which I never watch. It was just a complete accident that I saw Abigail Titmuss and Rebecca Loos in those lounge chairs beside the swimming pool in the Caribbean, adjusting each other's bikinis. It was a complete accident I watched that for four nights. Hide
Clive James's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (25)
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