Barry Leslie Norman Quotes
The worst films were always bad but now they are bad in a more cynical way. They pander to an audience of 12-24 year olds, mostly male and mostly governed by raging testosterone.
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Birth: | 21st August, 1933 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Critic, Novelist, Television Presenter, Writer |
Barry Norman is the son of film director Leslie and Elizabeth Norman. He was educated at a state primary school and at the Highgate School, a boys' independent school in North London. He did not go to university, but instead began his career in journalism at the Kensington News, later spending a period in South Africa where he developed a hostility to the situation created there by the emergence of apartheid. He is the brother of script editor and director Valerie Norman.
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