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Nicky Haslam

lines on the record: 66
first: 2009-08-02
most recent: 2009-08-02
sittings or episodes: 1
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“No. Oh, I think I'd have to run through the sound to save Ethel Merman. I mean, she's been the saviour of my life. I've got to have her there.”
2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a problem. I thought a flower vase might be interesting or even a scented candle, but in the end what I really like would be a wonderful eighteenth century picture to remind me of what I love the eighteenth century France like the swing by Fragonau or something. Nice big canvas'cause I could use it as a raft.”
2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm going to take legacy by Sibyl Bedford, and the tree of novels that all link together from eighteen ninety to the present day. And it's just such a brilliantly beautiful book. It's really history, but it happens to be a novel.”
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“The last thing is my great great friend Brown Ferry, whose eldest son is my godson I have known for thirty years now and I'm really his mother my closest friends in the world. Well everything he does I think is a great poet, a great lyricist and a great musician too but more than this is to me one of his masterpieces.”
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“Well, I think it's got to be as unlike as a dinosaur. I've got to find some old sort of sails from some former wreck and make some wonderful drapes, haven't I? And for shade, too, because I may not want to leave. I don't know yet whether I want to leave or not. I might want to be there.”
2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a funny little hunting lodge in a beautiful garden by a lake, and it's the sort of dream house. It's tiny. The room's about twelve foot square, and it's very beautiful, and I love it more than anything in the world.”
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“I'm quite enjoying at the moment not being in a long relationship, partly because the last one was very long and wonderful, and I've sort of can live off that for a bit.”
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“Well, the next the Strauss is very important to me because when I was fifteen or sixteen I met somebody called Reimer von Hoffmanstahl who was the grandson of the von Hoffmanstahl who wrote all the words to the Strauss operas and I'd go and stay with Reimann and his wife in Austria and this is Renee Fleming who I absolutely love as a person singing the final act of Daphne and she said to me the other day when I saw her she said when she sings the Rs at the end she said it would make a wonderful ring tone that wouldn't it?”
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“I think I have fun almost all the time, so awful. Is that awful to say that? I am so unserious. I'm not sure I can distinguish between fascination and fun and knowledge and everything, but it all seems to mold together to form a life, former philosophy.”
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“Yes, I think I would have been quite a good parent. I think that's true. I don't miss it, but I don't regret it, but if it had happened it would have been quite entertaining for both of us, I think. And what was”
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“I have so many godchildren that I worship, and so many children of friends that I love, and I see them growing up and being funny and witty and beautiful and everything. I don't really need it of my own, I don't think. I couldn't.”
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“Exactly. He thought that as I hadn't got children I didn't need money. I had a sort of minor trust fund when I was younger, but he left his money to my brother's children. Quite right. No.”
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“Well, in the end I did'cause he absolutely adored him he'd come to the ranch a lot, he loved that, and he was very proud of my success on Vogue and very proud of the book I'd written as sheer opulence or they were proud of certainly they're proud of me at the end.”
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“It's sort of true. I mean, I think he thought I hadn't got a proper job and I hadn't any kind of a desire, any kind of hope of doing that. I was so dumb with anything like figures. And so I was slightly lost at what to do. And I think he thought I was a bit of wastrel.”
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“Well, I've always adored the voice of Deanna Durbin partly because she was the inspiration for Maria Callas was when Deanna Durbin was doing her films as a child. Callus was the younger child who watched them and see her singing and far to become an opera singer. And this is Diana Durbin singing the most beautiful song I think ever written by Frank Lasser by anybody but it's by Frank Lasser. Spring will be till late this year.”
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“I'd done a wonderful house for some people in London. And I set the whole mood one evening and I'd sort of done the lights perfectly, I put the curtains there exactly I wanted. And I walked the next morning and they'd brought in lots of copper bowls with mother in law's tongue plants and I just cried and left I thought I can't do it I can't do it.”
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“I thought if somebody designs a perfect room for you, you've got faith in what you're going to receive. It's like putting on a perfect ball gun.”
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“Well, I just break the Greek Jewish expression You don't make your own clothes, do you? A lot of people do, but most people don't. And you're putting on clothes that somebody else designed. It's the same thing, isn't it?”
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“I think I bring a kind of knowledge of what a room should look like instinctively, and I think people understand that in me. I think houses speak rooms speak. They have a message. They say do this to me and don't do that to me. And my philosophy, the room speaks first this client speaks next, and then I have the overall view.”
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“It was just a joy to have, as I said, this canvas to work on, and it wasn't until I came back to England and started the business that I actually sent out invoices.”
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“Sort of an actor. I'd done it a bit all my life. I'd even done a bit in my parents' house, and then I started doing a bit few bits for friends.”
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“and I was driving down Sunset Boulevard, and blue velvet came on the radio, on the wireless, and I just remember it being a sort of such a wonderful moment, and this extraordinarily sensual bomb bombs of Babinton singing blue velvet.”
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“I would often go to Los Angeles to stay with my great friend Jean Howard, and one night at her bar that I want to go to, and so Jean said I'll take the car, and the car just happened to be a tiny Rolls Royce. It was quite nice to drive. A tiny Rolls Royce. Isn't there such a thing? Two-seat Rolls-Royce, you know.”
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“I remember I had jeans with studs all over them, and John Richardson, my friend, the art critic, said, Oh, you look just like a Queen Anne chair, dear.”
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“This friend of mine Jimmy Davison, who I bought the ranch with, and we certainly were very involved in proper cowboy life, but it was faintly my Antoinette, it must be said. I mean, who hasn't wanted to be a cowboy in there? Who hasn't wanted all that gear, although the chaps and the Stetsons and the bearskins and the fringe buckskins and everything?”
2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Andy Warhol, yeah. And so I just thought that I should see something else for the world not be stuck in Manhattan possibly becoming one of those people that only sees people in Manhattan or in New York”
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“It happened really because I the five years in New York, as you say, was the English boy in New York, I was at the centre of a movement really and in all that.”
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“But I absolutely loved her she was fun. The word is sassy, she just was sassy. She wasn't well read, she wasn't bright, but she just knew how to make the party go. I thought she was extraordinary.”
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“Yes, I can tell me about that. Well, I had lunch one day with some friends of the colony and they said the Duchess is coming, and she walked in, and as she came into the door, every single spoon or knife dropped into this clatter as everybody looked up. When she walked through the room sort of smiling, and she came and she sat down and said Hi, I'm Wallace. No ceremony at all. She was adorable. He was more difficult. He was a bit grouchy, mostly. I think he didn't specially like Wallace sing so much of other people. I mean, he was very, very jealous of her. He really, really kept his eye on her. He was lost without her.”
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“Layout the layout for the magazine. Mrs Reeland, Dan of Reland, who joined the vogue just after I did, immediately became a great friend.”
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“Yes, it was good to be the only English boy in New York, certainly because my father sent me a photograph of the Beatles,'cause they were from Manchester, or Liverpool. Definitely Liverpool. Liverpool, yeah. But he was from Manchester. And saying these are the sort of new sensation. And I showed Mrs. Reelan, my boss at Verg. She said, Get them photographed. And the photograph of the Beatles that we arranged for Vogue was the first one ever printed America.”
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“Fun enough, there's some photographs that we found the other day, and I am wearing exactly practically what everybody is wearing now short little leather jacket, narrow jeans, pointed cowboy boots, check shirts. It's extraordinary how that look seems to have come back absolutely with David Bailey and I wore it all the time because I went with David Bailey, the phot”
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“I think the next thing is when I went to America to live in the sixties I finally met the first I'd always wanted to meet more than anyone in the world Cole Porter He was old and a bit crotchety but he was Cole Porter and he was to me incredible to know him because I just think he is an extraordinary genius for music and he once told me that Lee Wiley was his favourite singer and this is her singing his song Why shouldn't I?”
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“Yes, I would gay, but not what people think now of us gay and determined in a marriage of gay marriages. That's not for me at all. I'm just sort of gay minded rather than gay.”
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“No, Yes, I did never occurred to me anything else. In a way and I don't feel I'm specially that inclined now it's not it's not a big thing in my life.”
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“And the funny thing was that in the end I saw through a lot when I got back to America said Give Tolula my love and I didn't sort of take it in And I years later I said Thrula, do you ever remember called Gerkel Diamond Punsonby? I said, Yes, darling a girl with a very deep voice. So I suddenly thought maybe I”
2009-08-02 · Desert Island Discs · Nicky Haslam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The year of the coronation yes, I must have been fifteen, and we went to see the music box where Fanny Bryce, the theatre, where Fanny Bryce had worked and my mother had been so. But after about two weeks she got she thought what you can do it yourself now and I was picked up by an enchanting actor near Times Square and he took me to stay the weekend with Tolula Bankhead. And game when you're fifteen to see Trulavankard is quite something, let me tell you. And a single”
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“Never, never, luckily. Well, partly because when I did get eaten, I didn't have to play games, because they realised I was very good at art, and so they just said going to the art school”
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“And I remember sort of bearding the younger masters and saying, is Carol Bruce a better sigger than Delori's Grey? Madison conversations like that with people.”
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“Not straight away I went to private school late, and between I went to upschool in Swanage Nightmare. Well, because I didn't know any children, you see, I didn't know what these ghast little dirty boys who fathered and played games and everything. Who were they? I like grown ups.”
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“I suppose about like a month or something. Yes, I suppose I was pretty determined to get over it in my soul I don't know.”
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“Well, my mother went to America my father wouldn't marry her when they met, and so she left him and went to America where she married an American man and had a daughter, who was my darling sister. So she'd go over to New York quite a lot, and she worked for Fanny Bryce, the great folly star, and so she loved Broadway, and she'd bring Brack Broadway musicals and the film of the record and the film of Call Me Madam K. And I just wanted to be Ethel Moman from that minute on. And this is her singing you're just in love with Dick Hines from Colmy Mountain.”
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“He became a great friend of Laura's, but he was slightly enigmatic, as my mother was to find out when she fell in love with him. He wasn't easy. But he was very attractive, certainly.”
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“hedging clothes. He once came with Lari, and they came to my room the painter, and there was a boy's sitting room he didn't move, and I said, Gerald and he looked up. Later on he said, Oh, I'm sorry I thought they were the plumbers, he said.”
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“He was very, very well read. He was romantic in a certain sense that he loved Italian and the past. But he wasn't romantic as a person, and he wasn't very tender. He was rather remote, rather removed, very good looking, nicely dressed, well, except when he used to come to eat and we used to embarrass me to”
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“No, they made it by then. There's an important difference. But it wasn't much long after they were spinning it. I mean, my father was born in eighteen eighty six, you see, and a hundred years ago the Haslams were spinning it. Literally, and making so little money, one of them had to go and read the newspaper to poor people for a penny a night or something. But they sold it the business in about nineteen hundred, and my father became a diplomat and moved down south.”
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“Yes At my mother's father's family all work for the royal family the Punsonists were their sort of way they ran the court really.”
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“I had a wonderful Austrian. She wasn't very nanny, she was just Theresa, she wasn't annihilated, she was just the most wonderful person of my life, and she slept in the room, because she had to do everything for me, and she was really the person I love most in the world for a long, long time.”
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“I was in a caste of my body half made of plast or paris and bound in with bandages. I could move my arms from my elbows downward, that's all.”
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“They were well, the doctor said if he lives he'll never walk, and I know I had a pretty badly. But pretty soon obvious that I would be alive, and it just became a frightful bore in me in this little shell lying flat for ages and ages.”
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