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This is the intro segment of a forthcoming 75-minute film, of the 2024 interview panel with long-serving BBC arts broadcaster, producer and director Alan Yentob CBE.
The panel entitled “Hollywood Highs”, was a comprehensive discussion of Yentob’s 1975 masterpiece documentary about David Bowie, “Cracked Actor”. And about Yentob’s decades-long friendship with Bowie. The panel took place in front of a live audience at the David Bowie World Fan Convention at St. Georges Hall in Liverpool, on the 26th of July 2024 (DBCON24).
Artist and author Mark Wardel and filmmaker Nacho conceived the panel and hosted it. Wardel recently co-authored an authoritative book about the Cracked Actor film, and is one of the foremost authorities on the subject. As such he led the discussion. Nacho creates and curates many Bowie videos from the era, and provided the archive material that was shown at the event; predominantly clips from his newly restored version of Cracked Actor.
During his decades working in the arts, Alan Yentob profiled and interviewed a wide range of important cultural and creative figures, including Orson Welles, Charles Saatchi, Maya Angelou, Grayson Perry and crucially for us Bowie fanatics, he produced the greatest David Bowie documentary of all time, Cracked Actor, which in 2025 enjoyed its 50th anniversary.
Yentob produced high profile and high quality TV series such as Omnibus, Arena and Imagine. He also served as controller of BBC One and Two, and the organization's creative director and head of music and arts during a long and varied career.
Alan Yentob died in March this year. The “Hollywood Highs”, panel at the DBCON24 was his final major public appearance.
The material has been edited and enhanced. Technical flaws, delays and even some elements of the talk that do not add anything valuable have been removed. I’ve also edited in the remastered Cracked Actor scenes in HD.
The full 75-minute film will be released on this channel in the coming days.
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Production & Editing | Nacho
Video material | SoundCity
Video & Audio material | Bernd Pick
Archive Video | Cracked Actor | | Directed by Alan Yentob | Ⓒ BBC 1975
David Bowie Music | Rebel Rebel [Live 1974] | Cracked Actor
℗ Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company LLC
under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
a Warner Music Group Company
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