always or almost always, usually have written or at least some advance thought to these items, come on, do not suddenly from one moment to another, where I'm. Therefore, I do not usually change never-or hardly ever ", your order, you see habits or hobbies historian, all sorted and placed. You know professional default. I say almost never, because today's article if you have had this, say "disorder" chronological, but I assure you have a because.
Yesterday, reading the online publication of a national newspaper story surprised me a little framed in a small box that publication, the story read: Death of Manuel Alexandre. A small chill hit me from behind, a feeling like you feel when you read the obituary of an acquaintance, or a person that you have not looked. Manuel Alexadre
A, I met him a few years ago, possibly one of the most frequented places, with friends and acquaintances, some now gone, others still continue to occur there daily. It was a Saturday in May of four or five years, the Café Gijón Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid. There, next to the door, the first table that is to your right as you enter the local, just glued to the recess where, years before Alfonso stood, cigarette man, shoeshine and anarchist, dressed in blue overalls, two-piece grumbling every time someone left the door open. The doors are to close, Alfonso said, when someone left the door without squinting. Next to him-a-Alexandre, some coffee or a tea, which he shared with lifelong friends, one of them, always sitting next to him, actor Álvaro de Luna, the eternal Algarrobo.
remember as years ago, after seeing two or three times, at the same table the Café Gijón, where today you do not feel anyone, just a portrait of comedian and a bouquet of flowers, "I come up and greet him, to congratulate him. By then, he had just been nominated to the Goya Award for Best Actor for his penultimate film, Elsa and Fred. This goya did not get it, if he awarded the honor, in 2003 -. A great film from director Marcos Carnevale, who with more than eighty-five years he was given the opportunity, if the main actor for the first time in his life, with actress China Zorrilla. The final scenes of the film in Rome's Trevi Fountain, mimicking her favorite movie: La dolce vita of Felini, is an image that perfectly evokes the happiness of this actor and all who knew him. It was then that he, pleased at the situation and hoping I suppose the arrival of his inseparable conversationalist, Alvaro de Luna, told me some scenes from the history of the coffee. The more memory, no doubt, was one that Camilo Jose Cela, gave a slap to a mutual friend, such that knocked him down, after this, you take the hair to make a financial contribution to make tribute to the Nobel prize. Manuel Alexandre, is with laughter as he had, with his big, tired eyes open and his mischievous smile and gallant, with his mustache perfectly fixed.
Curiously, his last play, where if was a leading actor, was Three Men and a destination, and José Luis López Vázquez, and Agustín González, which incidentally was also the last theatrical performance for the other two outstanding actors. But as a child, appeared in major English films, although many appeared inadvertent, they give you an example. Remember The Verdugo, Berlanga, well, he was executed, but also we saw in Bienvenido Mister Marshall! Or Death of a Cyclist, among other important and unforgettable English productions. Today
interestingly, the world bids farewell in the center of the Madrid Theatre in the Plaza de Santa Ana, in the English Theatre, an important place for him since his debut there in the forties, "and the English drama, a few years ago there was also sacked total comedian , a close friend of Alexandre. Fernando Fernan-Gomez.
But, undoubtedly, is an important theater for me, there were still a kid, I attended my first play. This was not one that Eloisa is under an almond tree, Jardiel Enrique Ponce, where I attended presentations literary novels of the major English-language writers. And there the bulk of English culture, with politicians Time to go to take the photo, another comic today to dismiss all, possibly the last. A good-natured and friendly that person who came to recognize on several occasions, that was what he loved most in life: theater, women and barnacles, said insurance and his mischievous smile.
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