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Hello everyone! I know I have been AWOL for a long time. I am having some troubles in my personal life, which has left me extremely busy.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know that I have for sale a couple of Larry and Vivien items that I thought you would all be interested in. I have them on e-Bay for "Buy it Now", but if you want an item and do not want to go through e-bay, I can do that. Just e-mail me at suicidalriot@gmail.com and we can work it out!

What I have I put links below, as well as the item name.

- "Hamlet" Movie/Theatre Playbill : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180321471577 (2 available)

- "Hamlet" Movie Program : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180321470953

- "The Story of Gone With The Wind Official Program" : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180321472768

- "Screen Romances Magazine- July 1940- Pride & Prejudice w/ Larry Olivier" : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180321474432

I also have several playbills that I am looking to sell (mostly Vivien). I have:
- A single playbill that includes both productions of "Antony & Cleopatra" and "Caesar and Cleopatra" (with Viv and Larry). It is in good shape, however when I got it there was a tear on the cover, but it has been carefully mended with tape, so it isn't too bad. -- $20 + shipping

- "The Skin of Our Teeth" (July 1945) -- $10 + shipping

- "South Sea Bubble" -- $10 + shipping

- "The Sleeping Prince" (with Viv and Larry) -- $10 + shipping

- "Antony & Cleopatra" @ St. James Theatre (with Viv and Larry) -- $15 + shipping

- "A Streetcar Named Desire" -- $15 + shipping

- "Ivanov" @ O'Keefe Centre -- $10 + shipping

- "Tovarich" (Playbill: the weekly magazine for theatregoers) -- $7 + shipping

- "Duel of Angels" (Playbill: the weekly magazine for theatregoers) -- $7 + shipping

- "Vivien Leigh" AUTHENTIC Fabric Swatch of Clothing She Wore -- http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-VIVIEN-LEIGH-CLOTHING-SWATCH-DONRUSS-290-500_W0QQitemZ180320461388QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_SM_Sports_Cards?hash=item180320461388&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

I can combine shipping, just ask. Please EMAIL me (suicidalriot@gmail.com) instead of commenting.

Anyway, hope everyone is well!

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you all know I'm doing a special contest this month at www.vivandlarry.com. The prize is a free copy of the new TCM book Leading Couples (I'm giving away 2 copies). So please feel free to enter for your chance to win!

Hope to see you over there:)

here's the link:

http://www.vivandlarry.com/contest.html

I know that there is a nice number of books about Vivien and I'd love to get some recommendations. I am not so much into gossip and scandals but after a respectful biography with a good selection of pics.

I was going through my DVDs a few minutes ago (I was alphabetizing them because I have gotten tired of attempting to find what I am looking for by throwing DVDs around in a pile lol), anyway, I came across my "That Hamilton Woman" DVD and popped it in just to watch the one scene where Emma finds Lord Nelson came for her after the party and they embraced :) I thought I would share it with some caps :)


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I sent this to Kendra so I'll post this here also :

At long last Warner will be releasing Waterloo Bridge (1940) on DVD on Jan. 27. Start saving up !

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This is on the Richard III DVD--it's an interview critic Kenneth Tynan did with Laurence Olivier in 1966 at the Old Vic in London. I love his voice and I love how he so obviously loved his profession.

Part 1

I'm a fan of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and like to make graphics. I created Gone With the Wind Stills-an icontest community dedicated to all things related to Gone With the Wind-challenges are mostly based on the 1939 film. So if you're fan please join us. Our first challenge is on Scarlett O'Hara and has been posted. gwtw_stills

1-3 Vivien Leigh
4-6 Waterloo Bridge
# 7 Caesar and Cleopatra
8-15 Gone with the Wind
16-18 Wuthering Heights (1939)

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I've posted this video in a couple of places, but I'll post it here too. :) They make me so happy!




Also, is anyone up for some discussion? This community has been super quiet lately...

I was spending the weekend at Chichester to be with David and answered a telephone in his office. It was a journalist politely inquiring for Larry's private number in Brighton. I asked him if I could help and he told me he had just been informed that Vivien had died during the night. personally shattered by the news I said I would ask Sir Laurence to call him. I rang Larry--who, of course, already knew--and commiserated with him. He was terribly upset and railed against the fates for their ill timing. She was starting rehearsals for a new play within a short while to which she was looking forward. He said he was going to London to offer any help to John Merivale, a great friend of Vivien's who shared the flat with her. Early the next morning the bell rang. It was answered by the housekeeper who was confronted by a man who claimed to be a personal friend of Miss Leigh. Believing this, in the circumstances, she let him in. He strolled into the flat, confronted Larry and Jack, admitted he was a journalist from the Daily Express and asked them for an exclusive. Wild with rage, the two men turned on him and asked him to leave. He parried this threat with a plea to Larry for a 'little chat--man to man.' By now completely incensed they took him by the back of his jacket and frog marched him out of the flat. Vivien's funeral took place that week. One of the chief mourners was their life-long friend Cecil Tennant. Driving back from it to his house in the country the steering column suddenly broke causing him to lose control. The car his a tree killing him instantaneously. The double tragedy, on top of Larry's own illness, was almost too much for my own moral courage, but I nerved myself to telephone yet again to offer my sympathies. As customary, when events become too great to take seriously, the reply was disarming. Having heard my condolences he said, "Do you know, my darling, I'm really no longer afraid of dying. I shan't be lonely; all my friends are up there." A facile throwaway to cover his intense emotion
--From Cry God for Larry an intimate memoir of Sir Laurence Olivier written by his former press secretary and friend, Virginia Fairweather

I always love reading new tidbits about Larry and Vivien's relationship, especially after their divorce. I don't understand how people can say he never loved her and shouldn't have left her. It's clear they kept in touch and he still cared for her very much, but that he just couldn't live with her anymore.