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How Hollywood Gets Sex Wrong (Daily Mail February 1, 2012)
We've been watching quite a lot of frantic sex in our house over the past few weeks. It happens every year at this time, when BAFTA, the film and TV society for professionals, begin counting the votes for their annual awards ceremony in February, and DVDs of the latest movies are delivered to the homes of its 6,500 voting members.
In this way, along with the usual adventures of spies, detectives, criminals, pirates, vampires, wizards and quirky talking toys, the modern way of sex reaches us.
Our Phony World
Professional footballers up and down the country did what they are paid to do over the weekend. They tried to score goals, and when some of them succeeded their various team mates rushed to engulf them in euphoric tangles of arms, legs and kisses. Why such passion? They play twice a week. A goal isn't that rare a phenomenon.
But then nor are prizes in acting for Kate Winslet who whinnied and hyperventilated in apparent astonishment when a couple of months ago she won yet another. Knowing that she's brilliant, she must surely have stopped being surprised at her own success years ago. Everybody else did.
And why do we see the regular academic weep-athon when sixth form girls fall upon each other's necks to sob with joy when they read their A-level results every August?
Wherever You Are and the Military Wives (Daily Mail, 21.12.11)
There's nothing phoney or saccharine about the song, and nothing fake or glitzy about those who sing it. Wherever You Are, as sung by the choir of Military Wives, is reality put to music - the reality of waiting and praying, by those who wait and worry.
They aren't a glamorous choir. They're better than that. They're beautiful. In that everyday, busy prettiness of young wives and mothers, with their high street dresses and the roots showing in their newly washed hair, there's an honesty about them, a beauty in their very ordinariness.
Joe Frasier - a gentle man
Joe Frazier may have been able to give and take all manner of beatings in the boxing ring, but out of it he was easily wounded by unkind words. I discovered this when, shortly after he'd beaten Muhammad Ali to become undisputed world heavyweight champion, he made the mistake of believing himself to be a soul singer as well as a boxer.
When The Beatles Met Elvis (Daily Mail, October 6 2011)
As summits go it might have been a secret meeting of heads of state. It was the evening of August 15, 1965, and police motorcyclists had been deployed to block any following traffic as three limousines sped west down Sunset Boulevard and into the gated Bel Air millionaire community of Beverly Hills.
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