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Been cookin' with the sauce, chef, curry with the pot, boy".
He seemed to have grown smaller, and more bird-like, in one of his last stage appearances, 10 years ago at the National, as the seedy old pot boy Spooner (another Gielgud role) in Pinter's No Man's Land.
Brown, wedded to the pleasures of narrative, wrote detailed backstories for each of his people: the pot boy, he explained, may well be wishing that leafleting do-gooder would listen to his opinion for a change, while the girl turned thuggish childminder is coping with an alcoholic father who will soon be up before the bench.
He found the view of the lane outside much more cheerful, and letters described the life of the neighbourhood, the pot boy from the pub carrying beer, an old woman goading her fat dog along the road with her ivory cane.
This is a brilliant history of how the wealth and power of Florence was challenged by a radical monk so successfully with the Bonfire of the Vanities that they had to burn him at the stake – Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Ludovico Sforza, and Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope, are in the premier league of Italian politics and make Berlusconi seem a mere pot boy.
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