Rowled?

There was Gotham by Gaslight, a version of Batman set in the late 1880s. Batman in the 1930s raises an interesting question - would he have been in favour of fascism and eugenics, or against?

Albeit that Pat Benatar and The Police were big winners that year. The pop category is baffling - Al Jarreau, Lena Horne, and The Manhattan Transfer, pop?

Frightening thought - that show is now twenty-one years old. Almost a quarter of a century has gone by since it made its debut.

"Did you threaten to overrule him?"

Others that spring to mind include Human Highway, which was Neil Young's attempt to make Devo into movie stars, and of course anything with Bob Dylan acting. Or anything with Ringo Starr from after 1973, including Son of Dracula and Caveman.

My God. There really was a film with Status Quo. And in 2013! Presumably it was a vehicle whereby premiere league footballers could write off some of their money as a tax break. One of those British films that is made and then immediately shelved.

I will always remember Untamed Youth, a vehicle for Mamie Van Doren that had Eddie Cochran(!) in a supporting role. He sings a song! But only one, while Mamie Van Doren gets to sing four.

It's the latest fashion. Damn you for mentioning them. I've starting humming the song again. But isn't it "yikes stripes"?

His name varies depending on the exchange rate. Right now he's called forty pence.

I don't know if they were political - they were above that - but Johnny Cash's American Recordings IV: When The Man Comes Around and V: A Hundred Highways both came out during the Bush years. I still think of them. They haven't aged.

I think the real debate is whether it should be unhirable or unhireable. Which is correct? Google leans towards unhireable but it looks odd.

If that was a case I'd be incredibly nervous about letting her appear in films by other directors - she has a habit of marrying the people who direct her. Which raises the question of how Paul Anderson keeps her in line. Drugs? Beatings? Bad words?

What's his position on the unification of Germany and Austria? Is he keen on making a greater Germany that includes the German-speaking people of the Czech Republic? What are his views on the Treaty of Versailles? Or the Danzig Corridor?

The next step will be flat-screen televisions - that sit behind you.

The problem with HDR is that it's going to be an impossible sell. How will a shop salesman even explain the advantages of HDR, let along convince people to spend money on it? Very little media will benefit from it.

His mother called him Ivan - then she died. The old man's back again.

It's been said before, but Lemmy could be the key - he died right at the end of 2015. December 28th. David Bowie would have been aware of Lemmy's death, and Prince would have been aware of Bowie's. Could it be that they were so distraught that death had taken Lemmy that they lost their will to live? The same is true…

You should write this down. Your life was a 1980s teen comedy.

Conversely the original Alien had an absolutely fantastic trailer, and it was pretty good as well. You just can't tell.