"I like for people to call me Sir Larry. It makes me feel popular." Very popular indeed after 42 years on the screen, Laurence Olivier was giving a rare television interview in London to Dick Cavett. He clearly relished showing off a souvenir of his long movie career: an arrow wound on his left shin from the filming in 1956 of Richard III, but the old veteran was feeling his years when Cavett asked how he would play Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, as he did when he was 15. Olivier, 65,...
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