I know! He’s clearly enjoying himself. Good for him.

It’s all just very sad. A woman dead, a child dying; awful.

I hope she makes a lot of cash and has a lot of fun.

Agreed. I am done with her trolling of us all.

Identity politics and competing claims to the authority of “authenticity” are a powerful drug indeed - she is the junkie Troll of all Trolls.

Identity discourse; is she the disorder or the symptom?

Not only am I waiting for the interview, I’m waiting for the movie, the novelisation, the album and the mug. You couldn’t write this stuff, people would say it lacked credibility. My jaw droppeth.

Were they ever seen in the same room?

Well, that’s him destroyed; next...

Don’t blame the agents; the artist is the one who ultimately decides everything, they’re not entirely infantilised, though it may be convenient to pretend to be so.

I agree. They are all on the same rate, how is that not fair?

Precedent matters, yes. You are asked to provide quotes and they check them, because they can. That said, it’s untrue to call their co-actors “supporting”, in TV terms they have careers of certainly equal value (if we’re being polite), to those of Tomlin and Fonda and are central to the narrative. Sometimes they only…

If they’re actually producers of the show, they can’t be unaware of the fees paid (as well as being in receipt of a producers’ fee, that’s if they’re actively producing and it’s not just some vanity sop thrown their way to puff their egos). It isn’t unknown for principal artists of equal standing to be engaged on a…

Skanks all of them, and this has been known for decades. But what an interesting target choice. An organisation the US has no real interest in… But the banks? The institutions which nearly destroyed the international system and for whose “errors” we all continue to pay? Nothing. No case to answer.

As this is a complete fantasy and I am free to wish; I would de-infantilize the adult narratives. You can address the same tensions, narratives and dramas without all the fairies, dragons, cartoon characters and monsters. Leave the kiddie stuff for the real kids and start focusing all that effort at adult narratives…

As a rare exception which proves the rule, perhaps.

I’ve never understood the “sport” of hunting. There’s no parity of risk, no stakes and no achievement. You might as well use a tank to shoot a turtle. The only country in Africa which has banned hunting is Kenya. You can even hunt in the contiguous fringes of the Serengeti. There is no “wild Africa”, it’s all managed…

Like Ursula Andress with her Conch?

Do you live in an apartment and have you seen your upstairs neighbour lately?

I sympathise with her sadness over the lack of a star on the Hollywood Star Walk, that’s really her due. She’s totally of her own specific time, part of a particular showbiz and journalistic history. Hedda Hopper’s there and Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell each have two. Someone should rectify this while she’s…