actually, I didn’t mean that. One of my friends has been calling her Skeletor since the 80's. The cover of Blue could be a horror movie poster....

Fair, but Allison Williams (thats her name) was super-WASP-y. Just look at her dad - not the one who traps black guys, her real dad, the newsreader. 

wasn’t he the bf of the WASP-y girl in Girls?

i know - I’m not proud of that...

two weeks from dumb Twitter post to WP op-ed? Better call Olivia Pope next time, Steven - that’s pretty lazy crisis management.

Joni Mitchell says hi

I wish I could find the clip of John Noakes trying to say “Showaddywaddy” on an episode of Blue Peter. Fair play to the band, they thought it was funny too. 

yeah, summer of 78 was Grease in North America, but in the UK it was the summer that Punk really became popular. Grease was a giant hit over here, and “You’re the one that I want” was our number 1 for weeks (unusual in the UK, where songs topped the charts for 1 or 2 weeks only), but it was displaced by the Boomtown…

that section about the roots of 50's nostalgia is really fascinating, and i think you’ve found the seed for the 60's hippies becoming 80's yuppies - ShaNaNa performing at Woodstock, right before Jimi.

“to keep the circus inside the tent,”

I’m amazed development didn’t start the day after the first box-office results came in. 

wow - I really need to read Wonder Boys...

yeah, that too, but I meant it was foreplay for the sheep...

in Tasmania, they call that foreplay.

“Mr. Flynn was acquitted, your honour! If it please the court, strike that from the record...”

I really like Alec Baldwins f-bomb in Aviator. Nice slow build up, and then....

“he’s the Fly! He knows things we don’t!”

and wasn’t there rumours about Errol and some farm animals?

I’m ok with Leo, but he wasn’t great in Aviator. He’s probably the weakest thing in the whole show. I’d have preferred a movie with Jude and Cate flirting, getting into fist fights at fancy dinners, Alan Alda being sassy, Alec Baldwin dropping an awesome eff-bomb etc.

To be totally fair to Jude Law, the apparent reason was that he did a really good Errol Flynn. Not as good as Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, but best man for the job in 2004.