Blank Check — Patreon: Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free)

Published 2022-08-28; 2:32:22 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Richard Lawson.

Subject films: Spartacus (1960).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy mistranscription of proper names; speaker attributions are inferred and low-confidence throughout, and some lines merge two speakers.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Corrections of mangled names (Russell Metty, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Herbert Lom, Sergei Prokofiev and similar) rest on my recognition of the transcribed sound, not on anything said.

Films that came up

Claims (41)

programming (pairing): Tony Curtis → Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Curtis named Goblet of Fire his favorite film of the year in answer to the Brokeback question.
“Curtis replied Harry Potter and the goblet of fire.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:08:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Kirk Douglas → Charlton Heston. Douglas could easily have just been Heston.
“He so easily could have just been Heston.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:19:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): The Brotherhood → The Godfather. Everyone cites Douglas's mob movie as the Godfather but bad.
“the brotherhood that everyone cites is like, oh, this is like the godfather but bad.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:20:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (runner-up): Kirk Douglas → Ben-Hur. Douglas was the runner-up for the lead of Ben-Hur.
“Like Douglas was the runner-up for Ben Hur.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (response to): Ben-Hur → Spartacus. After losing Ben-Hur, speaker says Spartacus is drafting off Douglas's dark man.
“Yeah. This is drafting off of Kirk Douglas's dark man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar competition): The Alamo → Spartacus. The Alamo, which John Wayne directed, got the Best Picture slot Spartacus missed.
“Um, because that's the one John Wayne directed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:22:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (remake (unmade)): Topkapi → The Thomas Crown Affair. MGM tried to remake Topkapi as a sequel to the Brosnan Thomas Crown Affair, with Verhoeven.
“Because wasn't Verhoven was going to remake Top Cappy as a sequel to Thomas Crown Affair.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (attached to remake): Paul Verhoeven → Topkapi. Verhoeven was going to direct the Topkapi remake.
“Because wasn't Verhoven was going to remake Top Cappy”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (replaced by): Anthony Mann → Stanley Kubrick. Douglas brought in Kubrick after firing Anthony Mann.
“Douglas brings him in after firing the original Anthony Mann or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:27:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Gregory Peck → The Down Slope. Kubrick wanted Gregory Peck in the Down Slope.
“He wanted Gregory Peck to be in that movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay): Stanley Kubrick → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
“AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → David Fincher. Speakers compare Kubrick and Fincher on set intensity and discipline.
“I think it's sort of similar, though, with Kubrick and Fincher.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:37:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (led to): The Killing → One-Eyed Jacks. Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western.
“Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (became): The Authentic Death of Henry Jones → One-Eyed Jacks. The Brando-Kubrick-Peckinpah western project is what became One-Eyed Jacks, which Brando directed himself.
“This movie, of course, is one-eyed. Jax, the movie that Brando was working on.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:44:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared crew): Jean Simmons → Laurence Olivier. Simmons was in Hamlet with Olivier before Spartacus.
“which she's in with Mr. Lawrence Olivier before this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Peter Ustinov → Oliver Reed. Ustinov's performance feels to the speaker like Oliver Reed's in Gladiator.
“it feels like Oliver Reed and Gladiator.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:57:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (riff / imitation): Spartacus → Gladiator. Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
“this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (genre escalation): Spartacus → Cleopatra. Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much.
“Cleopatra was like the end of an error”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (parody of the epic genre): Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus. Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to.
“Hail Caesar, which is mocking that”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation): Arthur Schnitzler → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick turned Schnitzler's Dream Story into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later (per the dossier).
“the Arthur Schnitzler book that he's going to turn into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): The Fast and the Furious (franchise) → Kiss. Griffin's thesis that Fast and Furious is the Kiss of film.
“the Fast and Furious movies are the kiss of film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (character echo): Woody Strode → Gladiator. Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie.
“Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (music on set): Sergei Prokofiev → Spartacus. Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him.
“The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (scene reused): Spartacus → Gladiator. The trident thrown into the stands in Spartacus is in Gladiator too, with Russell Crowe doing it.
“that's literally in Gladiator.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (namesake): Woody Strode → Toy Story. Woody Strode is said to be the namesake for the character in Toy Story, which the speaker says Pixar has admitted.
“being the namesake for the character in Toy Story.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:15:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (compared endings): Spartacus → Gladiator. Spartacus does not Hollywoodize its ending; Gladiator at least lets its hero go to heaven.
“Because, I mean, like Gladiator at least sort of lets him go to heaven.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (casting approach): Spartacus → Gladiator. Gladiator, like Spartacus, is loaded with supporting actors who are thespian gems, which the speaker says Scott recognized.
“as Ridley Scott recognized about this movie, is like loaded up with supporting actors who are like just thespian gems.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson offered as today's comparison for Kubrick's control and exactness.
“you want to compare him to someone like Wes Anderson, who is certainly one of the most controlled directors working today.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:38:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (same actor): Peter Ustinov → Robin Hood. Ustinov is Prince John in the animated Robin Hood.
“Usenov is Prince John in the animal animated Robin Hood.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Clueless. Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
“to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Airplane!. The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
“there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared audience appeal): Spartacus → 300. 300 came out and overperformed with an underserved gay audience, like Spartacus decades earlier.
“when 300 came out and made so much fucking money.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (parody): Tony Curtis → The Flintstones (TV series). Curtis lent his voice to a Flintstones episode with a character called Stony Curtis.
“he did a Flintstones episode... character called Stony Curtis.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:51:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Jeanne Moreau → Spartacus. Kubrick wanted Jeanne Moreau for Varinia.
“He wanted John Moreau to do it, which would have been fascinating.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:53:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation): Spartacus → Dell Comics. Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
“that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (voice replacement): Anthony Hopkins → Spartacus. Olivier was dead for the restoration, so Hopkins impersonated him for the recovered dialogue.
“Anthony Hopkins impersonated him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Laurence Olivier → Anthony Hopkins. Olivier playing Crassus feels like Hopkins's career phase; also Hopkins later impersonated him for the restoration.
“oh, Olivier was in the Hopkins phase of his career.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (led to restoration): Steven Spielberg → Spartacus. Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
“and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (followed): Gladiator → Kingdom of Heaven. Ridley tried to repeat Gladiator with Kingdom of Heaven and again later.
“And even Ridley tried to do it. Kingdom of Heaven. Two more times.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (followed): Gladiator → Troy. Troy coasts off the goodwill from Gladiator.
“Troy is the one that coasts off of the Goodwill from Gladiator”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (also directed): David Miller → Lonely Are the Brave. The director of Midnight Lace also directed Lonely Are the Brave with Kirk Douglas, written by Trumbo.
“He did Lonely Are the Brave with Kirk Douglas”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:12:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

fun, about Tony Curtis: Curtis, mocked as a bad actor in a class with Matthau, bought a fancy car the moment he became a picture star and drove by to taunt him.
“I put a woman in the in the passenger seat and I drove by and I went, hey, fuck you, math.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:04:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Tony Curtis: Asked his favorite film of the year during the Brokeback Mountain backlash, Curtis said Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
“Curtis replied Harry Potter and the goblet of fire.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:08:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Peter Ustinov: Ustinov's dinner-table impressions of Olivier and Laughton, face and all, are on YouTube.
“he not only perfectly impersonates Charles Lawton's voice, but he transforms his face.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:25:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kirk Douglas: Douglas griped that Kubrick left their five-picture deal and made only six films after.
“half of his remaining filmography would have been under my contract.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:30:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Sam Peckinpah: The name pun: Peck and Pa, like a chicken dad.
“It would be cool if his name was Peck and Pa.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Marlon Brando: Brando's quote about Kubrick as a creative thinker, not a repeater.
“He is an adroit intellect and is a creative thinker, not a repeater, not a fact gatherer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:40:02 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Marlon Brando: Brando and Kubrick wrote together at Brando's house, shoeless; Kubrick in dress shirt and underwear; Brando struck a gong.
“Brando would sit in a lotus position on the floor and strike a gong with a leather mallet if he thought discussions were getting off track”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:43:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Spartacus: Douglas announced Spartacus in Variety to beat Yul Brynner's rival Gladiators project, one dollar-ish over the same budget.
“we are going ahead with the gladiators, starring Eul Brenner, a budget of 5.5 million dollars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:47:55 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Tony Curtis: Curtis's quote on why he and Kubrick got along: they only wanted to talk about two things.
“we got along because we were only interested in talking about 2 things.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Cinematographer kicks a light into the scene to ask if there is enough; Kubrick says now there is too much.
“Kubrick looks at it and looks back at him and he says, now there's too much light.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Laurence Olivier: Laughton and Olivier reportedly dragged a three-line exchange to twenty minutes trying to one-up each other.
“And they dragged it out for like 20 minutes because they were trying to one up each other.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Spartacus: The film cost $12 million, roughly $110 million today.
“It costs $12 million, which is like the equivalent of like $110 million now”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the battlefield, extras playing dead were numbered, directed by number, and the numbers taken away before the shot.
“he would call out like, hey, 76, like be more dead or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:01:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Universal asked for 30 camera setups a day; Kubrick offered two; they landed on eight.
“And Kubrick was like, okay, I'm going to give you two.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Woody Strode: Kubrick, unable to direct Strode conventionally, played a Prokofiev concerto on set and watched his face change.
“I'll never forget the power of the music, what happened to Strode's face as the music played, you could watch his face as it was happening.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Dalton Trumbo: Douglas hired the blacklisted Trumbo and had him write the script in two weeks; putting his name on a hit is credited with breaking the blacklist.
“Like this movie single-handedly essentially breaks the blacklist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:21:45 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In contemporary press Kubrick said shooting a movie is a terrible environment for an artist.
“shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:22:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Arliss Howard recalls Kubrick astonished that so many people had opinions about Spartacus.
“Said when he did Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick said he was astonished at how many people were allowed to have opinions on the content of the movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:25:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stanley Kubrick: The research dossier's theory: the endless takes were waiting to be surprised, not to see what was in his head.
“It sounded so much more that the thing he was waiting for was for something to surprise him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:29:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kirk Douglas: Douglas on Kubrick: it is not necessary to be nice to be talented.
“Stanley Kubrick is a talented shit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:35:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Spartacus: The film is a Clueless cameo, a Community joke, and the Airplane punchline long before people see it.
“I mean, there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Spartacus: The restored bath scene's dialogue: Curtis rerecorded his in his 60s; Anthony Hopkins stood in for the dead Olivier.
“Tony Curtis rerecorded the dialogue, even though he was in his 60s.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Spartacus: The long-circulated Blu-ray was notoriously bad; the 4K fixes it.
“This looks like a VHS put on a disc.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:02:32 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Saul Bass: Bass pushed opening credits to be part of the film instead of projected on the closed curtain.
“before him opening credits would often just be projected on the closed curtains”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:03:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kirk Douglas: In the 4K special features a 98-year-old Douglas says only ten of his ninety films will be remembered.
“And he says this thing about like, I made 90 movies in my life.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:04:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Leans on the dossier and the Kubrick-era history; loves tidy business-and-career stories and the Blank Check 'guarantor' framing. Likes bits about stars and their careers. (Speaker attribution within the transcript is inferred; confidence is moderate.)
David Sims (host): Reads the dossier quotes aloud and defends Spartacus as a great movie despite Kubrick's own verdict; loves epics and Gladiator. (Speaker attribution inferred; moderate confidence.)
Ben Hosley (host): The producer, mostly off-mic; addressed in bits and a running favorite of the hosts. Little can be said of his taste from this episode.
Richard Lawson (guest): A Vanity Fair critic watching Spartacus for the first time; never connected with Gladiator or sword-and-sandal epics, fell for Woody Strode, and finds the homoerotic bath scene fascinating. (Attribution inferred.)

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Brisbane' (opening line) → Griffin
'Sporadicus' / 'Spradicus' → Spartacus
'Lawton' → Charles Laughton
'Usinov' / 'Houstonov' / 'Usenov' → Peter Ustinov
'Rust Medi' → Russell Metty (cinematographer)
'Gene Simmons' → Jean Simmons
'Herbert Long' → Herbert Lom
'Tony Curse' → Tony Curtis
'Matho' / 'Mathau' → Walter Matthau
'Cooper' → Kubrick
'Ilya Kazan' → Elia Kazan
'Sidney Lume' → Sidney Lumet
'Manelli' → Vincente Minnelli
'Douglas Serk' → Douglas Sirk
'Janet Lee' → Janet Leigh
'Eli Walk' → Eli Wallach
'Verhoven' → Paul Verhoeven
'Top Cappy' → Topkapi
'Yul/Eul Brenner' → Yul Brynner
'Lena Hetty' → Lena Headey
'Pattonson Fynes' → Robert Pattinson and Ralph Fiennes
'Annie Fletcher' → Anne Fletcher
'Heigel' → Katherine Heigl
'James Marston' → James Marsden
'Dirk Bogart' → Dirk Bogarde
'Toby Keble' → Toby Kebbell
'Roddy McDowell' → Roddy McDowall
'Prakofi' → Prokofiev
'Mark Forrester' → unsure (left as transcribed)

Blank Check — Patreon: Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free)

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