Yeah, what the other guys said. There was premarital sex and then subsequent marrying. So to us it maybe seems like there was less promiscuity, when really it was that a "nice" guy would marry you if you got in trouble and a jerk would dump you to be a disgraced beggar/perennial "aunt" to your kid. There was a great…

Excellent! When I read it was going to be directed by a woman my mind went to Kelly Reichardt, but I will take Lynne Ramsay happily. I adore Westerns. Sure, there is a lot of dross in there, but a good Western is better than nearly anything else.

Oh dear, that description triggered a flashback to this passage from a Woody Allen short story:

Is there a reason for that? I can imagine a bobbing blanket of golf umbrellas wouldn't look amazing on a parade ground, but what's the idea behind not holding them just walking around?

That does make perfect sense. I think a lot of the Dick van Dyke army flashback episodes revolved around this difficulty...

The no carrying one surprises me a little. If I'm going to conform to gender roles in my most feminine, non-slack clothes, I'd damn well expect him to carry my packages.

I am convinced that Brick is a figment of the Daily Mail's mind. Whether that's because I know too much about how they operate or because believing she doesn't really exist is the only thing keeping me sane, I couldn't say.

Strangely enough, I actually found that a bit emotional to hear everyone in that audience joining in (if lyrics were on a board I am really doubtful that anyone who didn't know them could follow along fast enough). In the Internet age, when tastes are becoming so splintered (for all the benefit that brings), it's cool…

There's a difference between being a gay ally and being a gay person. Supporting one dude's right to french another dude does not mean Will Smith wants to actually partake. People who are revolted by the mere abstract concept of homosexual intimacy usually get a side-eye from me, but I think it's different to be…

The saving grace was that at some point it lurched from depressing bad into comedically bad, which just appealed to my perverse British humour.

I threw up in Rome's main thoroughfare on the way to work today. And that was still not the most humiliating thing to happen during the day!

So am I the only one who spent ages wondering why Channing Tatum was getting so worked up over the Fat Tony guy?

Wait, this racial mathematics personality generator got a little confusing. Am I okay to date brown guys?

The way he talks... I just can't. He doesn't sound like a real person, he sounds like a cartoon newspaperman. A sexy cartoon. Does he do audio books? He would read the shit out of Damon Runyon.

Yes, I saw that one over summer and it was phenomenal. Perhaps it was the wine we'd been swigging beforehand, but I was a sniffling goo on the floor more or less from the orchestra tune-up until the final curtain :D Khadime was fantastic, as, I thought, was the chap doing Valjean (he was the understudy to Alfie Boe,…

Mmphhh. I cannot WAIT to hear him knocking Bring Him Home six ways from Sunday.

Think it would be better if it read: 'Lesbian Joanna Johnson has come out as an actress on The Bold and the Beautiful'?

Haha, true story: after I finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's monumental 900 page tome 'Team of Rivals', I felt like I knew Lincoln and William Seward so well, that, even though I knew Wilkes Booth was going to kill one and maim the other, when it actually happened I was just shocked. It took me a few days when I was…

Forgive me that I couldn't find the clip from Yankee Doodle Dandy...

Do they have any rules regarding full length whalebone crinolines? Because whilst they meet the length requirement, they have an unfortunate habit of rustling provocatively when you're trying to get to your lecture seat.