The Sky News one on Friday morning was incredible, one of the hosts was completely unguarded in his total contempt for everything Polanski said. Mugging, eye rolling, shaking his head. Amazingly partisan
Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will
BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
I hope Martha's doing OK.
Watched this last night, the other play Michael Palin wrote for Innes Lloyd. It's very good, stunningly redolent of the late Thatcher era. Only on iPlayer for another 22 days, so get on it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.
Do you like it when a character makes a claim, but then events instantly disprove that claim? Yes? You will LOVE the Scrubs remake
The Tony Blair Story review – some rigorous analysis of his time in office might have been nice
Levine did not have concerns while making the movie but has developed a fuller understanding of the trans experience in the ensuing decades. "It's just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender.", says the actor, "It's unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it's fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.".
I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Watson season two review – a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit
Noooooo holy shit that is bad
Basically Fennell is all about moments and this has many good ones, but it doesn't have the narrative pull-through-and-reveal of Saltburn, the tragic romance is half-baked. It should have stuck ruthlessly to being a grinning monster that force-feeds you semi-ironic kinky pulp until you happily burst
WUTHERING HEIGHTS ⭐⭐⭐ The audacity of it is initially overwhelming and I like that it dramatises an idea of the book, not the book itself which is largely about estate planning. Half an hour too long though and its generic "mad woman in Gothic melodrama" Cathy runs out of gas long before the end
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
This is blackout poetry to me
Something for me to put all my A5 notebooks in
Had a similar experience this week. Disgracefully, if you search for "A6 notebook" on the John Lewis website, all the results are A5 notebooks. I only became aware of this when four entirely unwanted notebooks arrived. They are 100% too big 🤬🤬
"They're serving the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on @itvpeston.bsky.social
Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort in Harold and Maude (1971).
RIP Bud Cort. Harold and Maude is one of my favourite movies of all time and he’s spectacular in it. If you haven’t seen it, don’t find out anything about it. Just watch it.
Romesh Ranganathan laughing hysterically
When a guest on The Romesh Ranganathan Show says something faintly amusing, just part of the conversation really, may not even have been intended as a joke per se
Pretty sure that the escalator upon which Taylor Swift heads down in Croydon's Whitgift Centre is the same one that June Whitfield goes up in the Terry and June intro.
Well that's very kind, thank you. That was all me (I may have overestimated how well-known Goldberg is)
Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure
Ha, sometimes I used to look up what it was that Scotland/Wales/NI were getting instead of, like, the biggest new show of the week. "Ah well in fairness that does sound excellent," is something I almost never said
Solid gold, this show
a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces
photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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