On the Beat

I was in a deli a few minutes ago. They were selling red wine from a region of South Africa called Meerlust. I couldn't help thinking they could make a bomb marketing that in the run up to St Valentine's Day.

Whilst I'm at it, Kate Winslett and two Golden Globes - is it just my puerile sense of humour that finds this juxtaposition funny?

Over the past couple of days, death seems to have featured. Not my death, I am pleased to say, but in my thoughts, and in the media.

Of course I went to see And When Did You Last See Your Father? last night, where death did seem to feature rather prominently.

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Tonight I saw another preview (thanks, apparently, to a Radio Times offer rather than filmstalker) – this time, Anand Tucker’s film of Blake Morrison’s book, And When Did You Last See Your Father?.
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Yesterday, I went to the movies. It was a while since I had been to the cinema – a few months, anyway. A friend dropped me an email: he had tickets to a preview, and he couldn’t make it, so he asked if I’d like to go. (Actually, he asked several people if they wanted to go; but clearly, I’m the only one without a social life, because they were all busy!) He runs a film website, Filmstalker, and the quid pro quo was that he wanted me to write a few words about the movie for him.

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