Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Here's a fantasy Godot: Belushi and Ackroyd, with Murray as Pozzo and Radner as Lucky! Though I suppose Didi and Gogo are already Jake and Elwood...

Late 91.  London. Haymarket Theatre.  Intermission of the Jacobi/Lindsay Beckett. I was sitting in front of an elegant and imperious older woman, blatantly eavesdropping. Turned out, she was Lady Ottoline Morrell's niece. Heaven!

Tonight's Death in Paradise name game: A pet mouse named Rothko!

Suspect on Death in Paradise named Ricky Lee Jones.

   Eva Figes and Gunther Grass were romantically involved? Awkward.

It has long been accepted that critic Kenneth Tynan was the first to utter the F-word on the BBC, in 1965. However, there are three claims that may have beat (ahem) him. Playwright Brendan Behan claimed to have mumbled the word in 1956 on the show Panorama. A railway maintenance worker being interviewed about his job in 1959. And best of all, a young Miriam Margolyes claims to have used the word in frustration on University Challenge in 1963! There is no proof of any claim, sadly.

Sometime ago, I noted that an episode of the series Death in Paradise featured a character who shared a name with poet Stevie Smith. In an episode watched last night, a character shared his name with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

There was a time when I would cross Hampstead Heath twice a day. I knew she lived nearby, but I never saw Kate Bush.

Actor George Sanders was married four times.  His second wife was Zsa Zsa Gabor.  His fourth wife was Magda Gabor.

Sitting next to a girl who lied me she loved me.

Many years ago, I heard that a book about The Kids in the Hall was to be published. Unable to find anything, I went to the source. I called the Toronto studio where the show was taped. The person who answered the phone was very helpful, explaining that they had indeed been approached to publish an "exploit-our-fame-while-we-have-it" book, but nothing happened.. The voice was familiar. "Excuse me, is this Dave Foley?" "Yeah, I'm just kicking around the studio on the weekend."

Watching Death in Paradise last night, the murder victim's name was Stevie Smith. And no one even mentioned it! Though in an earlier episode, when the detective fell off a surf board, his deputy said "He's not waving." So there's that.