Those Beautiful, Beautiful 60s People

Now here's a quotable quote:  "I can cope with my wife leaving me, but I HATE losing my hair."

Terence Stamp with girlfriend Jean Shrimpton in 1965

In the Swinging London era of the mid-60s, Terence Stamp, then a fashionable young actor around London, a Cockney like Michael Caine and trendy photographer David Bailey, was a major heart-throb and Lothario - I won't call him "hunk" because he was slim and ethereal-looking, like his lady.

(Jean Shrimpton was Twiggy's main rival as a symbol of the 60s London scene - what would now be called a Super-Model.)

IMDB says, "Terence Henry Stamp was born and lived in Canal Road, Bow, until German bombers forced his family to move to Plaistow. An icon of the 1960s, he dated the likes of Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot, and Jean Shrimpton. After an extremely successful early career, starring in Modesty Blaise (1966), Poor Cow (1967), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Stamp withdrew from mainstream films after his girlfriend, supermodel Jean Shrimpton, left him, and he and went on a 10-year sabbatical in India. He returned home in the late 1970s to star as the evil General Zod in Superman II (1980) and in 1984, delivered what many consider his finest performance as the supergrass in Stephen Frears' The Hit (1984). A few minor but colourful roles, topped by his performance as the transsexual, Bernadette, in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), have put Stamp back in the British conscious. His role of a vengeful gangster in The Limey (1999) was created especially for him by its director."

Terence is now a better actor than he was in youth - you may have seen him camping it up in the hilarious "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", among his heavier roles

His website links to a interesting, passionate video voiced by Stamp, about the 2010 World Soccer Cup in South Africa.  Its logic might not stand up to philosophical rigor, but it's great to look at - http://www.terencestamp.co.uk/the-truth-the-cup-contains.

At a youthful 74, he's just been divorced by this lady:

The British "Daily Mail" reports he married for the first time at 64: "His wife, Elizabeth O’Rourke, was 35 years younger than him. He was working in Sydney and walked in to the pharmacy where she was training as a pharmacist in 1998. They married in a low-key ceremony in 2003,  and they remained very private. But they divorced in 2008 on the grounds of his unreasonable behaviour.

‘One of the things I’ve learned in life is that it’s very easy to make a lover from a friend but it’s very hard to make a friend from a lover.’ He laughs again, but this time it carries a little pain with it."