The Rose, Bud, Thorn method, I always found a bit procedural, and the sort of thing that was just an icebreaker to get people to talk about their days. I never really considered it a serious or deep ...

But he is best remembered as the ambitious Australian priest in the high-rated TV miniseries adaptation of Colleen McCullough’s weighty romance novel “The Thorn Birds.” “Shogun,” based ...