Jumpin' Jack Flash by Keiron Pim

Author:Keiron Pim
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781448180011
Publisher: Random House

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fn1 The reference to South Africa connects more closely still with the Richardsons, who had mining interests there.

fn2 Referred to in the script as the Hayloft Club: this obvious reference to Esmeralda’s Barn isn’t made explicit on screen, though the decor is plainly modelled on the Krays’ club and features a mural reminiscent of Annigoni and Whidborne’s.

fn3 Reiterating a theme central to the film, one that at the very beginning we’ve seen mirrored in the ‘straight’ world by Harley-Brown’s supercilious barrister’s remarks to court, when he describes an ‘admittedly bold but in no way unethical merger – I said “merger”, gentlemen, not “takeover”. Words still have meanings, even in our days of the computer.’

fn4 Reggie Kray never loved any human being as much as he loved his Pekinese, Mitzi.

fn5 Performance, and in particular Chas’s final dominion of Joey Maddocks, illustrates George Melly’s observation that Litvinoff was a man who ‘understood entirely the excitement of violence’ (‘Lights, camera … decadence’, by Mick Brown, Telegraph Magazine, 3rd June 1995, p. 27), and moreover the sexual excitement of violence, a fact also well known to the Kray twins. Albert Donoghue wrote of their time in an army jail circa 1953 for assault and desertion during National Service: ‘they kidded the corporal on guard into the communal cell and beat the shit out of him. Then they all held him down, while Ronnie masturbated him. So that is weird, yeah?’ The Krays’ Lieutenant: Their Chief Henchman and Final Betrayer, by Albert Donoghue and Martin Short (Smith Gryphon, 1995), p. 83.

fn6 Performance: a Biography of the Classic Sixties Film, by Paul Buck (Omnibus, 2012); Performance: BFI Film Classics, by Colin MacCabe (BFI, 1998); Mick Brown on Performance, by Mick Brown (Bloomsbury, 1999).

fn7 Which, to its residents’ anger, had just been condemned to demolition in the London County Council’s programme of slum clearances.

fn8 The Lanesborough Hotel on Hyde Park Corner.

fn9 Donald Cammell once commented that he ‘always saw Performance as a comedy’, which brings to mind Max Brod’s description of listening to Franz Kafka reading from his work: ‘We friends of his laughed quite immoderately when he first let us hear the first chapter of The Trial. And he himself laughed so much that there were moments when he couldn’t read any further.’ The Biography of Franz Kafka, by Max Brod, translated by G. Humphreys Roberts (Secker and Warburg, 1947), p. 139.

fn10 That is, the Georgian rake who gave his name to Litvinoff’s Daily Express column, ‘Dandy Kim’ and the property developer who bought numerous ex-Rachman properties after Rachman’s death.

fn11 John Millington Synge’s play might have resonated with Litvinoff: it concerns a man who appears in an Irish pub and tells the locals that he has killed his father, but his audience are more interested in his mesmeric storytelling than the facts of the crime that may have occurred.

fn12 The Irish National Theatre in Dublin, founded by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904, which would stage Synge’s play in 1907.

fn13 Or,

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