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LETTER

Molly Gillingham
Sunday 26 March 1995 00:02 GMT
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WHAT was the point of David Thomson's essay "The man who should be king" (Review, 19 March) on Alan Bennett, other than to provide its author with a few mean little thrills? Isn't wishing Bennett were more macho rather like calling Anthony Hopkins a decent actor chappie but no Schwarzenegger?

Molly Gilligan, London W6

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