Loooooong and purple and the stuff of nightmares. He never writes, never rings, I feel used.

I fed a Giraffe in Nairobi (it was a small reserve, they don’t roam the streets), they said I should hold the nut between my teeth. Giraffe have eighteen inch prehensile tongues. I still feel violated.

I have a very pinched nerve in my neck but I’ve a flight to Cairo coming up and I am hoarding my Valium and just gritting my teeth through the pain; priorities. How anyone flies without partial sedation is beyond me. I don’t remember it always being like this. I recall travel involving gloves and hats and a sense of…

“There are many people in the administration who consider this a business,”

That’s not journalism, that’s not even entertaining, that’s philosophy; what the French have instead of a sense of humor.

If you are raped or abused please find a human being to talk to and use your tech toys to find their phone number, not wisdom, sympathy or guidance.

As she thaws and drops her guard a little that woman becomes a force of nature and a total delight; beautiful and funny - I now adore her.

India has always had its own colorism as does every nation, and yes, not looking like your servants or the peasantry is a desirable state for the privileged on every continent, still is. When it comes to contrived inequalities India is really is in a class of its own. I hope you’re not seriously telling us that a…

As I age I realise that every generation has to learn everything all over again, from scratch, and even then, nothing can ever be taken as given. Thanks for this patient and humane account..

When that one died I just said “screw it”, skipped work and took myself to lunch and had a couple of Martinis. She was my definition of everything a star was

No that’s not the point, it’s her point and its nonsense. She took no initiative at all, she took the meeting she was given by her agent, all she actually did was turn up and audition. Casting briefs change all the time but they change because of the director’s choice not the actors’. If the original brief had…

Indeed, and they’re all character actors until they make people lots of cash. Maybe one day she’ll be in enough leading roles in movies which actually make money, when that happens, I kid you not, they’ll offer her projects far beyond her capabilities or suitability, because that’s how cynical the business of show is.…

Well if his mind hadn’t already been open she wouldn’t have been seen in the first place; she auditioned - they didn’t just straight offer it to her, and those people don’t use the casting process to widen their social circle, time is money. The credit is Neil Jordan’s not hers..

Well yes, raise the cash and produce the projects. In the end everyone’s typecast, if they’re really really lucky. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, Maggie Smith is Maggie Smith, they never play anything else and that’s what you hire, because you know what you’re getting, the brand, and there are black (mainly male), actors…

and furthermore, St.Patrick was British! Oh the irony.

I am haunted by the probability that the last thing I will see as I pass from this existence will be a group of people staring idly at me while one films me on their iPhone.

Trust me, I would...

I sort of love her for this. How long can you go on with the dance routines and trying. trying, trying so hard? I’ll embrace performance art/Yoko Ono Madonna in all her cabaret sideshow “Where Have all the Flowers Gone”: incarnation. Madonna? Is that you?

Well done! All I’m think is; that must cost a fortune to heat in Winter.

Well it has to be said it’s all about fit and proportionality. The notion that a Vagina is a standard size is as absurd as thinking there’s an optimum cock size.