Reading key passages from authors whose work has been inspired by the landscape, he gains a unique view of the country that has been captured in some of the most unforgettable writing of the past century. It could be some kind of severe infection, but is most likely to be a form of lung cancer, so I’d like to do a biopsy under local anaesthetic next week. I thought about that encounter a lot as I read A Pocketful of Happiness, because the book clarified it for me.

It’s a completely honest and open exchange, which enables us to share everything that the doctors and scans have revealed. In January 2019, the day he found out he had been nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in the black comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me? A Pocketful of Happiness is made up from diary entries leading up to the death of his beloved wife, as well as looking back to when they first met in the 1980s, his Oscar nomination, meeting his life long idol Barbra Streisand and so much more. I particularly connected with the passages where he feels hurt by her outbursts, but understands where that pain and anger comes from, so he just has to bear it. Told with candor in Richard’s utterly unique style, A Pocketful of Happiness is a powerful, funny, and moving celebration of life’s unexpected joys.

Theirs was a marriage whose love defied mortality, and it was she who urged Richard to "Find a Pocketful of Happiness in Each Day" after she was gone. Was able to read this for work, was shocked to have to wipe away tears reading at my desk, so moving and amazingly written.

Thirty-six years ago I rented this bedsit here and I cannot believe I am standing here now with an Oscar nomination.Thank you Richard E Grant for sharing your pain and yet give us the occasional loud laugh in writing. He was recovering from tuberculosis and was also heartbroken following the end of an affair with Fanny Osbourne, a married American woman. But I absolutely 100% believe that secrets are toxic, and I’ve seen so many people turned upside down because of some family secret, and she knew that about me. It’s a classic Grant anecdote, a mix of the eminently relatable and the unimaginably starry, which he encounters with an endearing everyman kind of astonishment.

She was a dialect coach, helping actors such as Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes perfect accents for their roles. And, for the record, if I am ever lucky enough to be nominated for an Oscar - I want to experience it with the pure joy and delight that Grant had during his awards season for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me? This is a man who really, really, really loved his wife and meant it and lived it every day of their relationship. Swazi-English actor Richard E Grant will host 2023 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Awards (BAFTA) ceremony, the awards body announced on Monday. The all-new Philadelphia-set drama follows a group of ordinary people, thrown together in a strange and surreal puzzle-solving game to follow clues and unravel a mystery they never knew lay just under the veil of their city.More recently, I saw him portray the character of Bob Crachit in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" starring Patrick Stewart as Scrooge. Washington, as always, is avid for his news and they share their days, as they’ve done for 38 years. It’s a scaldingly hot day, but he is looking fresh and dashing in a slightly lupine way, wearing a patterned shirt that’s unbuttoned just that little bit lower than most Englishmen would go for, and slim black trousers. Attempting to be “normal” in this uniquely abnormal situation exhausts us all, and we’re in bed by 9 p. Written in diary form, the memoir follows his relationship with Joan and his family's experience of cancer, death and grief from Joan's diagnosis to shortly after her death, interspersed with glitzy tales of celebs in an enthusiastic "is this really happening to me?