Robert Evans
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He really wants to like play up because it's good for his later reputation.
But I don't think he's playing this bit up where he's talking about this, why he did this, that he just feels a compulsion to freak people out and get a reaction.
Yeah.
As an entertainer, I get that.
I was that kind of kid in some ways, right?
Sometimes you did things just to see how people react or just because you wanted to get everyone laughing, right?
Right.
Yeah.
And it's interesting that he's his goal is not to make everyone laugh.
He wanted to freak people out.
Like you could see how a different person could have made this a funny bit and like brought everyone in.
And like this is something that could make your pals laugh and could like have an impact on them.
He wants to scare them kind of.
He wants to make them to be upset with him and to feel like because then they won't pay attention to him.
If they think he's really weird, they'll give him a wide berth, and he'll get to continue doing his own thing alone.
That's something Jimmy is going to take from this experience, and it's going to be with him his whole life.
So the war ended and the Bevan boys started deserting the mines because they didn't want to work in a mine anymore.
It sucks.
Davies, his biographer, suspects that Savile was a repeat work skipper even before the war ended.
And basically that he was never working as much as he should have.