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it seemed as though...

something was going wrong.

It was her fault,

and she was trying

to sort it out and correct it.

As I understand it,

Mom was doing plays,

and she met Michael

in one of those plays,

and she instantly

fell in love with him.

In 1965, Michael played Mick

in The Caretaker's

North American premiere.

He recalled an audience member

coming round

to the dressing rooms later

to congratulate the lead actor

and that he was introduced to her.

Her name was Diane,

and she loved the show so much

that she came back twice more

during the run.

I think Diane fell in love

not with me,

but with the character

I was playing on stage.

The character is something

that is so different from me.

It's such an exciting

and dominating character.

You can't take your eyes

off that character.

That's absolutely nothing

like me at all,

but you can see why

I would want to play it.

So isn't it ironic

that Diane turns up

to watch a performance

by an actor,

and as she watches

that performance, she sees,

"That person is exactly

what I've been looking for all my life.

"Somebody exciting,

somebody full of intrigue.

"That"s what I've been

looking for all my life. "

She was an actress herself,

and a few months later,

they'd play together

in The Condemned of Altona,

and that changed

their lives irrevocably.

Diane was playing

the part of the actress,

and me as the German officer.

Once again,

this is a fascinating character,

so even in that play,

we were playing two roles

rather than Michael and Diane.

And they talked

at a party afterwards,

and they got

into some weird discussion

where Dad offered her

a drive home,

and Mom said okay.

Yes, I did offer to drive her home.

I said, "I've got

a Mercedes-Benz sports car

"sitting outside

if you want a ride home. "

Dad admitted that he didn't

have a car there.

In fact, he didn't even drive.

And Mom was the one

that had a car there,

so somehow in the story,

they're both lying

to go home with each other.

And then they made love,

Mick and Diane.

Let me continue by telling you

another of Michael's artistic pursuits.

At about the time

of his marriage to Diane,

Michael decided

to purchase a movie camera

and to record their belated

honeymoon in England.

Watching it, several features

of his work become apparent.

Every time you see a group

of people in my Super 8 movies,

every time you see a few people,

you get interested,

the camera goes away

and looks at the roof

of a house or something,

or disappears in the distance.

This was my way of filming,

not to include people too much.

I gather that Diane

did once say that on that trip,

he spent more time

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