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It’s not only the stars of folk rock that Thompson’s mixed with…
Jeanne Moreau, 1955: “enigmatic”
“MY husband Steve was an agent, so I’ve met a lot of people through him. Jeanne Moreau, she was fantastic. What was she like? Oh, you know, she was Jeanne Moreau! A very smart, talentedwoman,veryFrench,veryenigmatic. She had terrific presence – in a restaurant people would stare. I knew Peter O’Toole very well; he was very like John Grant, such a clever man, there was nothing he didn’t know. And such fun. Steve handled Clint Eastwood too, all these people, so I got to meet them as well. You don’t think of it at the time, but it was incredible to spend time with them. Nobody reads a book in Hollywood, so I used to sometimes write synopses for them and say a movie is about this or it’s about that, which I loved doing. People would say, ‘You read the book? There is a book?!’”