There was a time when everyone you wanted to know wanted to look like this. I sort of still do.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe wrote Trout Fishing In America<\/em>, which is only a bit about trout fishing in America, Willard and the Bowling Trophies<\/em>, which really sort of is, which is easier to understand when you realise Willard is a stuffed bird on a mantelpiece and A Confederate General In Big Sur<\/em>. Where oddly enough, Hunter Thompson also lived at one time.<\/p>\nI just read the end of the piece in the Daily Mail<\/em> about Simon Dee, which isn’t something I often say.<\/p>\nAlthough he had been married three times, and had four children and four grandchildren, Patricia Houlihan believes the last years of his life were very lonely. He continued to pursue women, that was in his DNA, but he became increasingly reclusive and eventually left London for Hampshire.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n‘He would often call me for phone numbers of people he knew a long time ago, some of them now dead – he continued to treat me as his PA. It never occurred to him that life had moved on.’<\/em><\/p>\nIt isn’t looking that promising, is it?<\/p>\n
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