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Reading & watching- The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, season 1 (Amy Sherman-Palladino 2017) 18 March 2019Starring Rachel Brosnahan, this series about an upper west side housewife who becomes a stand-up comedian feels as if, if it's not based on a trues story, it should be. Fabulous, rapidfire dialogue.
- Belvoir: Every Brilliant Thing (Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe 2017) 17 March 2019This one-person show was a hit in the UK an on Broadway as performed by its co-creator, stand-up comedian Jonny Donahoe. It's a daring move to stage it with the gender of the sole character changed, but Kate Mulvaney absolutely owns the whole thing, eliciting terrific contributions from the audience as her father, her husband, a school counsellor and s […]
- Paper Girls Book 5 (Brian K Vaughan et al 2018) 16 March 2019No sooner have I read my Christmas supply of comics than my birthday comes around, and here is Book 5 of Girl=Goonies-meet-War-of-the-Worlds.
- Sometimes Always Never (Carl Hunter 2018) 15 March 2019A benignly odd film on the missing-child theme, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, this features a lot of Scrabble and English eccentricity. Opening image: a man in a suit stands on a beach looking out to sea. Closing image: same man with family celebrating the New Year on a beach, with one empty chair. The title, which was at one stage going to be 'Tripl […]
- On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder 2018) 13 March 2019About Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lovely complement to The Notorious RBG. I was one of two men in the theatre. Serendipitously, in the bus on the way to the movies I read Judge Kidd's remarks prior to announcing the sentence to George Pell, and was reminded how beautiful it is to see careful, nuanced, defended logical writing. It was good preparation for the […]
- The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, season 1 (Amy Sherman-Palladino 2017) 18 March 2019
