Dudley Refuses To Bow To Despair

In the first interview to be published since he announced last month that he was suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy [PSP], Dudley Moore has revealed that his battle for life is far from over. Speaking with extraordinary candour to an interviewer in The Times, Moore's determination to live life to the full belies earlier reports that he had lost hope. 'No I'm not waiting to die,' he said,' I owe it to other PSP people to go on. And maybe that's supposed to be my purpose in life now.' Given the problems he's had to face over the past few years - an acrimonious divorce from wife Nicole, discovering the disease and then selling his home to pay for medical bills, Moore is surprisingly forward thinking. Future plans include a charity performance next month where Moore and Julie Andrews will narrate Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals - which, if it goes well, may provide Dudley with a profitable line in narration work. Showing that he hasn't given up his sense of humour, Moore was quick to find ways of obeying his doctor's instruction to 'enjoy myself'. His answer? 'have as many orgasms as I can, which I do!'