this seem like two film represent one a dreary and pretentious lengthy saga about an ac tor who be take over by the part he play while the other a brilliant social comment about a middle age divorce who be pick up by a waitress . shelley winter be wonderful a a waitress with another business on the side . she drop heavy hint about the need for connection and her certificate in massage and her desire to get into the modelling game . i love the glimpse of her seedy flat with a kitchenette behind a curtain and and her terrible seducing outfit of navel revealing and puff sleeved crochet top . do actor get oscar for shakespeare . we know they oscars for impersonate disabled people and wear a lot of prosthetics and or pretend to be mad . the shakespearean scene ( which go on and on ) be embarrass and date . and so be the go mad scene where tony look distract while listen to his own voice over . by the way and anthony john be not aristocratic . he make it quite clear in an early scene that he use to be a chorus boy . when he quote his father advice and he slip into a cockney accent .