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Memories of meeting a matinee idol
Western Morning News (Saturday)
|August 23, 2025
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I WILL never forget the first time I saw Terence Stamp. It was when he made his film debut playing the title role in Billy Budd, the “handsome sailor” who strikes and inadvertently kills his Master-at-arms.
I must have been a very young teenager, but I knew he was waaaay beyond handsome. As far as I was concerned, he was one of, if not 'the', most beautiful men I had ever seen. Those brilliant blue eyes, that tousled blonde hair, those cheekbones you could slice cheese on.
This story is from the August 23, 2025 edition of Western Morning News (Saturday).
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