The screenwriter and actor,66, on self-dramatisation, and the social season,nihilistic Marxism and his coat of armsI had an early intuition for self-dramatisation. My earliest memory is coming down with flu and the doctor said: “He’s well enough to go in the pram.” I remember thinking: “This is my final pram ride. I must remember it.”Going up to Cambridge in 1967 was the first sense I had of being in control of my life. Then in 1968 I was picked up by Peter Townend [Tatler’s social editor] to be one of his young men for the season. Suddenly I had all these parties to go to. Nowadays one’s supposed to say debbing was ghastly, but it wasn’t like that for me.
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Source: theguardian.com