Tina, you too are a magical writer — you always manage to hit the right note and gather those emotions in us that say yes yes yes exactly. Thank you for this wonderful tribute to Tom Stoppard both as the revered writer and also to him as your dear friend.
Yes it did land well with me. I’m trying to find The Talk Magazine piece with him in 1999. You’re an immense talent yourself Tina. I love reading your pieces and your Substack interviews.
Tina, you got me by putting "liquid and languorous"in the same sentence. Will spend the rest of this evening languishing and that's a good thing, if you ask me ;-D
Thanks and like so often just wish I had gone out to Dorset to see him in the last two years, and now never will. So many Titans leaving the stage but he was . for me,.the tops.T
What a beautiful piece of writing to honor a literary hero. From seeing The Real Thing at the National to Leopoldstadt just before lockdown, I have adored and admired his work. Thank you for bringing him to life on your Substack page, and for sharing him with us as his friend.
Lovely piece, thanks, Tina. I was a great admirer of Stoppard. Sounds as if you were too - and how lucky you were to count him as a friend. The likes of him will never . . . etc.
Tina, you too are a magical writer — you always manage to hit the right note and gather those emotions in us that say yes yes yes exactly. Thank you for this wonderful tribute to Tom Stoppard both as the revered writer and also to him as your dear friend.
Thank you so much. Tom was so mighty, it was easy to pay tribute.... T
Masterful. The obit to die for.
That sounds like a Stoppard witticism in itself. Thank you! T
Oh Tina what a beautifully written tribute to your friend and the exquisite Tom Stoppard . You write like an Angel with widespread wings!!!
I saw The Real Thing on Broadway in 1984. It was with Jeremy Irons and Glen Close . And of course directed by Mike Nichols.
Thank you for this wonderful piece, Tina .
Glad it landed with you. So much to say about such a monumental talent and beautiful human...... T
Yes it did land well with me. I’m trying to find The Talk Magazine piece with him in 1999. You’re an immense talent yourself Tina. I love reading your pieces and your Substack interviews.
Absolutely beautiful tribute to a man I didn't know but would have loved to know. This is becoming a masterclass, thank you.
Tom was a walking master class himself. Thank you ! T
Tina, you got me by putting "liquid and languorous"in the same sentence. Will spend the rest of this evening languishing and that's a good thing, if you ask me ;-D
Thanks and just wish we could hear Tom rrrrrolling out those words ! T
Such a loving elegy for such a titan of words and humor. How fabulous to have known him - jealous yellow I am.
Thanks and like so often just wish I had gone out to Dorset to see him in the last two years, and now never will. So many Titans leaving the stage but he was . for me,.the tops.T
What a beautiful piece of writing to honor a literary hero. From seeing The Real Thing at the National to Leopoldstadt just before lockdown, I have adored and admired his work. Thank you for bringing him to life on your Substack page, and for sharing him with us as his friend.
It was a pleasure to do , if not a pleasure to lose him. He was the best of the best Thank you T
I've loved this man's work over many years.
Your remembrance of him is hard to read; every sentence lands.
Thanks. A staggering loss hard to absorb, I agree and thank you T
A brilliant tribute and what a loss for us all.
Thanks dear Shelley. He really is the best of the best T
Marvellous.
Gracias !
A cozy warm blanket tribute to a dear friend. Thanks for the eyeful!
His wit and generosity are certainly what we need in these awful times. Thank you,T
What a wonderful tribute to your friend.
Only a tenth of what he was worth but thank you T
Thanks Tina I knew of Tom Stoppard of course but your tribute has made his life clearer. RIP amazing talent
Thank you. Tried to bring his amazing presence alive and glad it worked for you T
I hope you speak this at his memorial service
I think every brilliant mind in the UK will fight for that opportunity but thank you. T
Lovely piece, thanks, Tina. I was a great admirer of Stoppard. Sounds as if you were too - and how lucky you were to count him as a friend. The likes of him will never . . . etc.
I was so lucky to know him yes, and just wish, as we always do, that I had been able to see him more in the last years Thank you T
Tina, this is just dazzling… you make me want to see everything Stoppard wrote and read everything you’ve written.