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pidunk 10:28 pm UTC 08/20/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Captain Hook in Bat ? - Marvello 12:01 am UTC 08/18/07 |
> When i was a child in the late sixties my family lived in > Buckinghamshire, my father worked for Richards family on > their smallholding, my father was in contact with Richard > until my father passed in 1990. > I can assure you the he has never went under the name > Smith. This is one thing that is openly published without any denials, in all of the reports that I learned this from. You can see in the story of RH that Richard O'Brien took the name Richard O'Brien supposedly because there was another actor he didn't want to be confused with called Richard Smith, but the actual truth is that he intended on being confused with Richard O'Brien who existed as surely as that other Richard Smith did, and the original Richard O'Brien who had been O'Brien before Smith became O'Brien, is Jim Cypherd. I understand your personal connection to the family, of which Jim Cypherd is also a member. But apparently they did not make you privy to the things that are easily found in printed and published biographies for why he should be seen as innocent in his confusing for Cypherd as O'Brien. If the information about Smith is one more lie, then that is a lie that is being published and which I did not apply any personal information to. I relied on published sources. The show, "Mephistopheles Smith", took a reworking after Cypherd abandoned London theatre, and this new O'Brien took the credit for it as well as probably did influence the rework. But Cypherd did once describe it to me in 1987 as a semi-auto-biographical portrait of this cousin who is so much derailed from amiability with him, with respect to the perceptions of the "feud" and attributed this piece of work as the reason why Richard took the actions he subsequently had made, because he felt offended by two things: One, this show, and two, that Jim was using the name of Richard O'Brien whom had predeceased the issue, a relative of both of them. If the name "Smith" became another fabrication, it probably had to do with the name of the show which was written by Cypherd under the name Richard O'Brien, in its original version which is no longer performed. I don't have any reasons for disbelieving Jim Cypherd about these things. I also don't have any reason for disbelieving the information you present about your own personal insight. I appreciate your post, and shall not blow away anytime soon, I hope. | |
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