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Taxi Driver (revisited)

It’s always interesting to revisit a seminal movie and see whether it has stood the test of time. Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1975) is regarded as a classic but 40 years on I am not so sure. The story is of a psychologically-damaged Vietnam vet Travers Bickle (Robert de Niro) who, [...]

May 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

London derbies

I was disappointed that QPR won their play-off final and Leyton Orient lost theirs to deprive us of two entertaining derbies. The odd thing about QPR and Fulham is there is rarely parity between the fortunes of the two clubs. Thus in 1968-70 we had 2 relegations and QPR 2 promotions. In the last [...]

May 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cricket and betting at Hove actually

Sitting at Hove, I found it hard to imagine that this most sedate of county grounds – with its sea air, deck chairs surrounded by the leafy streets of Hove with Jewish Sephardic names ( Goldsmid St, Avigdor St, Montefiore Place) – could produce the betting scandal that took place [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Meeting a legend

Yesterday I attended a football symposium at the Argentine embassy. It was moderated by Jimmy Burns, who wrote a biography of Diego Maradona, and attended by panelists journalist Jim White, Victor Morales, the doyen of football commentating in the Argentine, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa and Angelo [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Two Faces of January

Yesterday I travelled to the south coast to see Robert Tickler who wanted my view of a director whose film Robert was interested in financing. Dear old Robert was in jovial form, joshing with a plumber who was repairing his washing machine. “45 quid, Neil” he said, ” … less [...]

May 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The joys of community life

I am a firm believer that when you relocate to a new place you should patronise local business. I’m more accustomed to shopping at Fortnums than the troubled Co-Op group, but I had to visit one of their shops to refill a gas and then eletricity key card. Whilst in the locale I explored for a [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport

Sussex punches above its weight in sport. Brighton and Hove Albion FC is one of the best supported teams in the country, never mind the championship in which they reached the play offs: there is fine horse racing at Goodwood: Eastbourne has a leading speedway team and top level tennis is played at [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

On the National Rust we know the editor will only publish two offerings a day and, if you write on a conventional topic covered in the media, you have little chance. I was initally going to defend Richard Scudamore – who has done so much to take the Premier global – in the face of [...]

May 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

School for scandal

My old school St Paul’s has been hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons, namely a succession of teachers who were “at it” with the boys. I have always thought that one of the reasons people went into teaching was their attraction for young boys and the sinister, complicit way [...]

May 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Privacy

  There are several successful plays which are redefining the conventional frontiers of accepted theatre. The Drowning Man and Venice Preserved do not take place in a conventional theatre but in different public locations, e.g. in the case of the latter the Cutty Sark.  In a different way, [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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