Kind Hearts And Coronets is certainly a masterpiece of acting that will never be duplicated. Sadly, horribly, I heard on the radio this evening that Robin Williams is starring in a remake of that film. Let us all heave a collective groan and swear not to buy a ticket to that predictable disaster.

My two favorite films by Alec Guinness are Our Man In Havana, which is a masterful sendup of the soon-to-be overthrown regime, which also featured a wonderful (and severely underrated) American actor, Ernie Kovacs, as an excellently emoted slimey Cuban army officer, and Ralph Richardson, as his slimey English counterpart). My other favorite is The Lady Killers, which featured the first film role of another creative genius, Peter Sellers.

And I agree totally that the stage and theatre training of these wonderful English actors can never be replaced or recreated. Let us appreciate their talents, and keep them in our hearts and in our video libraries forever.

-- Áine