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Gavin Lambert, himself a novelist and screenwriter, met Anderson at Cheltenham College and they remained friends until Anderson's death in 1994. The title of his book is slightly misleading, for its main, if unstated, concern is the sibling dynamic between two school friends who pursue similar ends by different paths, with the attendant rivalry and myopia. The interest lies in what Lambert calls the "dual portrait" of one who stayed in the country of which he despaired but from which he drew fire, and the other who fled to pastures warmer and more liberal. Where Lambert is open about his homosexuality, Anderson repressed his sexuality almost completely, allowing glimpses of it privately, but in public only betraying it through his propensity to fall in unrequited love with his leading (often Irish and broody) men, such as Richard Harris and Frank Grimes (your card was marked if Lindsay expressed a desire to direct you as Hamlet). His most fertile working relationship was with playwright David Storey, whose novel This Sporting Life he memorably filmed, and whose plays he was to direct at the Royal Court under he left in a huff in 1975, only to continue the partnership at the National Theatre. Like his hero John Ford, Lambert remarks, Anderson was capable of extraordinary kindness and extraordinary meanness, the latter fuelled by a suffocating repression and which led him to remark to actor Malcolm McDowell that he wanted as his epitaph, "Surrounded by fucking idiots". This unique and thoughtful account serves as a far more eloquent memorial to an uncompromising iconoclast who was, as his schoolfriend opines, "faithful to his pungently original, shit-kicking talent". --David Vincent
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