I had begun acting in the annual school plays and in between with local
amateur dramatic clubs. That and theatre-going were the only passions of
my youth. As for cinema, my parents seemed to have some puritan aversion
to it - but what films I saw all seem to have been American. I cried for
Bambi, had nightmares about the Wicked Witch of the West. I fell in love
with Margaret O'Brien and Elizabeth Taylor - just a heterosexual phase
I was going through - then it was Montgomery Clift, Robert Taylor, James
Dean and Sal Mineo.
