Is she referencing the bottle suck? Perhaps. Not sure I care.

Meanwhile, in Hollywood heaven…

That's absolutely accurate (although few of them know who Dietrich was these days, so there is confusion), she can be quite affecting when singing quite simply to spare arrangements, I see her singing protest songs while playing a residency at the Carlyle (well-intentioned but slightly misplaced), in her dotage or…

I don't think she was ever revolutionary, but she's always been provocative and a clear case of style over content. She was never profound, pop stars aren't, to anyone over twenty five anyway. That narcissism which is deemed charming at twenty-two may well become deemed pitiful at fifty-two, but she's clearly still…

The Queen Mum is definitely sans Corgis , she's sans breath or heartbeat since 2002.

They're properly trained and initially inexpensive. I asked someone in the decision making world in the film racket recently why there are so many Brit men, black and white (this migration is not defined by race), and she said it's because the local talent is infantilised into perpetual boys, there's something…

Thank you. I hooted like a Bonobo at your comment.

Rashida is sharp as a knife and a Lady.

And… sometimes burn.

...on a Trapeze Artist.

What on earth is this Hitler Youth insanity?

That was all as interesting as it was wonderfully informative. Thank you.

They reseated her party (at her request? It's not clear), that was enough. Otherwise it's one person's word against another and theatre managers and ushers are not policemen or judges, at best they're there to keep order, not to serve as partisan proxies in disagreements. She says, having been reseated, having sat…

The rake (angle of descent), which normally compensates, as well as the stagger, in the Met orchestra really isn't that effective. I have to say that a certain gaucheness (polite term for that man's nonsense), in the audience is pretty much a constant.

Because in his mind, he's a victim and therefore vindicated in his offensive response to perceived offence. That and a bastard.

Oh enough with all the obtuse racial authenticity in opera casting drivel. It's artifice. None of it is real. They're all pretending. Anyone can be anyone and you'll accept it if it's presented to you. People don't sing when they talk and histories aren't initiated and concluded in three hours on stages, with an…

Same old lyrics, slightly different tune. Don't be conned.

Well the list does, at least, accurately reflect the industry it claims to represent.

Thank you. Facts and examples are much appreciated.