Seems to me you failed to heed the first lesson taught to us by movies and TV: any woman who picks up a man out of the blue always has an ulterior motive. Luckily for you, she was just trying to share the Good News, and not, you know, an assassin.

Charles Dance and Diana Rigg are a bit too old for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.  May I suggest A Lion In Winter instead?

Marion Ravenwood.  'Nuff said.

Great piece! I've preferred Colbert to Jon Stewart since day one of the show. To your point that his best interviews are the ones where the guests embrace his style, I find that they only run into trouble if they come into the interview thinking they're smarter than him. They may be, intellectually, but nobody's…