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Ken Russell and the defrocked padre Maverick filmmaker Ken Russell is making a new movie - in his back garden. It's a far cry from the glory days of Women In Love for which he won an Oscar nomination for best director, but at 72, he's still fizzing with ideas. His films used to have budgets in the millions but his latest venture is costing the princely sum of 2,000. TIM COOPER joined him and his cast of amateurs on the set of his latest epic Leomania
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THE LAKE was steaming after a sudden tropical storm as the lion
emerged from the jungle. The great director was behind the camera,
hidden behind the trees, when the lion slipped and fell into the
murky water. A loud splash, a muffled cryand the bedraggled creature
clambered on to the bank, roaring with rage and frustration. The
great director groaned, yelled: "Cut!"
and went to get help. Well, they do say filmmakers should never
work with children or animals. Ken Russell, eccentric ge...
