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‘This is important,’ he wrote to Jamie Hamilton. ‘I do have another profession! and now more than ever it is the story that makes the film … PLEASE tip me off in the very early stages if you come across something that could make a different sort of picture.’ He still worried endlessly about money, and when he asked Hamilton to send eight autographed copies of The Moon’s a Balloon to Stowe and was charged £13 for them, about £100 today, he refused to pay and claimed they had been advertisements. In June there was wonderful news from Hollywood: R. J. Wagner and Natalie Wood remarried after dumping their second spouses, and from now on would visit the Nivens whenever they were in Europe. ‘We had many wonderful times together and huge laughs,’ Wagner told me. On the financial front there was good news too when Niv earned £40,000 – nearly £350,000 in modern terms – making a series of TV commercials that summer for a Japanese deodorant called ‘Who’s Who’. In one of the ads he was chased along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice by a gaggle of Japanese girls shrieking ‘David!
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