No actor should ever be cast as Batman unless they ace this scene in a screen test which then gets leaked online. Indeed, all former Batmen ought to record their own versions.
A thing I love about Margot Kidder's Lois Lane is that gives the impression being Superman's girlfriend is in the Top Ten Things in Her Life but not the Top Five.
Here's my TV serial pitch - a depressed, middle-aged policeman is murdered and a cheerful schoolgirl spends six episodes investigating before deciding there are too many depressed, middle-aged policemen on TV anyway and the killer should be allowed to get away with it.
If you start watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 22.17 this evening, Brexit happens just as Leatherface hits the guy in the head with a sledgehammer.
Before the far right claim Vera Lynn, remember that a) she sued the British National Party for using her recording of 'The White Cliffs of Dover' as an anti-immigration anthem, and b) she was the patron of this charity dedicated to Burmese war veterans. h4fa.org.uk/veterans
My grandmother typed the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four while looking after Orwell's London flat when he was on Jura. She was convinced Orwell named the book's heroine after my mother, her daughter Julia.
To mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, @BBCRadio4 is broadcasting a five-part reading today.
Readers include Martin Freeman (9am), Juliet Stevenson (3.15pm), Adjoa Andoh (7pm), me (9pm) and Tom Hollander. Hope you can listen bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
I'm sitting down to watch The Death of Stalin - because a head of state dying ignominiously strikes me as a hilarious feelgood Christmas film pitch at the moment.
