Apparently Craig Ferguson did a long interview with Stephen Fry, and Millie could listen to the two of them talk all day.
A guy modified a record player to play tree rings rather than vinyl. So neat!
Millie and her gentleman friend went to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last weekend, and she thinks she probably missed about half of the important bits of implied information. This rather thorough analysis fills in a lot of the gaps though.
Backstage at the Dior couture show.
The Stoakes-Whibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns.
Lego man in space!
Need something to do to kill time? Try this colour matching game, which is sure to infuriate you.
Millie, had you read Tinker Tailor? D and I went to see it right after finishing reading the book to each other, and felt like the movie was fantastic, but borderline incomprehensible if you hadn’t read the book. We loved most of it, but were distracted by some of the things that seemed to have been needlessly modified or invented — a common pet peeve of mine in films of long novels — in a why bother removing that perfectly good thing and replacing it with something that wasn’t there kind of way (eg, moving testify to Hungary, modifying and then making a show of Guillam’s sexuality, and for the love of heaven, changing Ann Smiley’s hair color, which JLC had taken such pains to describe as blonde). On the other hand, Colin Firth was unexpectedly fantastic. It took me a while to get why he was the perfect Haydon, but he really was.
No, I hadn’t, and I think that had a lot to do with my not getting a lot of what was going on. I’m glad to know that it’s considerably more comprehensible to someone who’s read the book!
It’s definitely worth a look, as is “the constant gardener,” if you need a little more international intrigue with your international intrigue.
FYI, I am awesome at the color matching game.
I was awful at it! The first couple of parts were fine, but it was allllll downhill after that