And another thing…

Casablanca is moving, my fave too. Of a time when right and wrong were more clear to many more folk.

I wonder wether highlighting the final segment of these pieces so people can dip in and hear your guest’s view of their favourite film only might prove more popular?

Thanks for bothering btw, it is enjoyable, and prob close to broadcast standard.

Perhaps you might extend your format to include something off the wall – to rival Desert Island Disc’s “luxury”?

Snack or drink to take into the cinema or onto the sofa perhaps?

The man has taste. He also puts it in context, which is that it is entertainment, not high art.

As Umberto Eco wrote; “all the cliches having a party”

It’s in my top three, but I have spent a lifetime working the dialogue into my real life…

hills of beans, please Vera, and another slice of toast.

Yes that’s broadcastable. And the least favourite really works. You can get a series with the BBC post May.

Thanks – good stuff.

I don’t know if anyone else gets this, but the format is slightly unnerving. It shows MPs emulating all the characteristics of being human. So far, your guests have avoided the trap of being too worthy.

Of course, they have played safe up to now, and I don’t expect anybody in the Labour Party to go for Leni Riefenshahl’s “Triumph of the Will” or “Anal Farmyard 3″, or indeed anything they have charged to their hotel bill, and later to expenses, but the format is strong and yes, Tom, there is no doubt you could have a career in broadcasting after Westminster.

I wondered wether you were operating the machinery while participating?

I worry about the celeb aspect, which perhaps goes with self consciousness? Or is Weasel right that you’re both only human?

Oh well, Have Fun!

wrinkled weasel – Triumph of the Will is actually an astonishingly good film but I thought that Anal Farmyard 3 was the weakest of the series; they should never have gotten George Lucas to direct. (Btw we actually are human, but don’t tell anyone)

@ DC
lol. Just hope some credulous hack doesn’t pick that up!

I have actually said, in real life; “You have to get on that plane. If you don’t get on that plane you will regret it. Maybe not today, but one day and soon…”

I have also said, in real life: “No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

Is it just me, or do other people work movie dialogue into their everyday conversations?

It shows MPs emulating all the characteristics of being human.

How astonishing. I always thought they were made in a secret factory on an industrial estate in Stevenage. (That’s what Stewart C told me, anyway.)

This reminds me of when Stanley Johnson (Dad of Boris) appeared on HIGFY. ‘Boris has a DAD????!!!!’ Paul Merton exclaimed. ‘I’d always thought he’d been knitted!’

@Wrinkled:

No but few make a fetish of it.

Of all the blogs in all the world . . .

(possibly hereditary, my son spent some time calling me “old man . . ” )

@WW

I never did understand why anyone needed kissing badly.

Tom. You could go for Wossie’s job in the summer doing Film 2010.
Although, frankly, my dear, I don’t give a monkey’s. Or something along those lines.

Quite a good list, a bit unusual which makes it more interesting.

On Wallace-we don’t know where he is from (somewhere in the west of Scotland) and Bravehearts’ depiction was inaccurate and insulting ignoring the mans heritage and intelligence.

Dear Dr Cairns,

Thanks for your recent homage to Mr Gibson and your enthusiasm for all things antipodean. You’ll be hearing from us soon.

Yours,

Marian Morrison