Put it on here before, but my mum and dad were in Austria years ago and Omar Sharif and Micheal Caine were making a film there. Sharif used to come in the hotel bar and women were drooling all over him but all her wanted was to find someone to have a game of bridge. They said he was a smashing, polite bloke with no airs and graces but seemed rather sad. Micheal Caine they said was down to earth and organising a football match for a local kids charity. Sharif mentioned, when football came up, how Tom Courtenay used to have the scores of City games brought to him whilst filming. Presumably so one was ringing 211422for him.
Was talking to Tom Courtenay after the game at Loftus Road where Terry Neill scored and then got sent off for lapping one of theirs into the stand. There was bother outside with some Irish idiots having a go at Neill for some comment he had made regarding The Troubles. We told them where to get off but we're refused entry into the social club. Tom Courtenay got us in, don't know how as he wasn't a member. Was talking to Sir Tom and mentioned two of my favourite films were Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago. The conversation switched to Julie C, and he said it was a bugger that in Dr Zhivago we was the one married to her character but Sharif was the one who spent time cuddled up in bed with her. His future wife, Cheryl Kennedy, was with him and didn't seem too pleased.
