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Hi - Daniel from Profile Books here.
Victoria Wood was indeed annoyed with Profile for using her quote
without asking on the cover, even though (for example) she had said what
she said in a press release. I could go on but think I'd better not.
Also...I hope everyone will get a chance to see the long piece in
today's Daily Mail.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=
457077&in_page_id=1879
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Subject: Re: [MASSOBS] Victoria Wood and 'Housewife 49'
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No - I wonder if there's more to it.
She was very cross that the second ed of Nella Last's War was published
with a line attributed to her on the front cover when she had already
refused to write a new intro for Profile Books. Maybe they shouldn't
have
gone ahead without her permission but it was only a line. I heard from
Profile that she was very cross about that and she may feel that the
Archive was implicated somehow - though we weren't.
There was also a suggestions that she might be filmed in the Archive at
Sussex for the South Bank Show on her - with Melvyn Bragg. The South
Bank
show actually phoned me to start setting it up; then they changed it to
ask
if I could bring some of the original diary to London to be filmed but
then
nothing further was said. So who knows what was going on there? Maybe
nothing at all.
The other important thing to remember is that hers was a fictional
version
and it is very clear that she drew on her creative talents to make
something new of the diary for TV. Maybe she wanted people to
appreciate
her specific contribution? Much of the programme was her imagination
(esp.
the MO office in London which was not in the diary though I did talk to
her
on the phone about that).
She was perfectly nice to me while we were waiting in the wings at the
Brighton Dome on the night of 11 May before her performance in the
literary
bit of the Brighton festival but perhaps very nervous.
But there are always weird errors and misunderstandings with projects
and
the media - and I should add that I think Richard Broad (editor of
book)
got a nice message from her when he wrote and congratulated her. I have
(blind) copied this to him in case he fancies joining in with his own
observations. I don't think he is on jiscmail.
Better get back to work........
Dorothy
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> I think part of her subdued response may have been her surprise at
> receiving the Best Actress award for what was an adequate but not
exactly
> earth shattering performance rather than any reluctance to acknowledge
> the source material.
> David
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