The Brit(ish) List

( This week: Benedict Cumberbatch Goes On Sesame Street, Tom Hiddleston cast as lead in film adaptation of JG Ballard's High-Rise, Gary Oldman confirms he's been approached for Star Wars, James McAvoy talks Frankenstein, Rupert Penry-Jones on Silk series 3, Paul Bettany To Play The Vision, Daniel Craig Attached to Thriller The Whole Truth, Jude Law says phone-hackers hounded him, Damian Lewis Set to Star as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall, Colin Salmon cast in 24, Hugh Bonneville gets needle over woolly jumper, Matthew MacFadyen and Stephen Mangan bring Jeeves and Wooster to West End, Ian McKellen portrait unveiled in New York, Stephen Fry joins cast of animated show Driftwood Bay, David McCallum's six best books, Jack Davenport joins US pilot, Ralph Fiennes on his role The Invisible Woman )

Donald Where's Your Troosers?

I was just reading about profiles and segments and I was thinking, yeah, well, I'd like to see an algorithm keep up with my ecclectic tastes. I swear I must have done some damage to the poor Amazon filter by ordering Jane Eyre and Nabonga (smirk). Mind you, my latest purchases have removed all the Shakespeare and Dickens from my recs and re-instated The Mighty Isis.

Sigh. I will keep doing that to myself. Or the truth will out, or some such. It's like the playlist you never want anyone to ever see, the stuff that you love that is so deeply, deeply uncool and indefensible. Or maybe that's just me. There's my profile, daggy down to my dirty boots, never mind my pretensions to trying to reading Victorian novels, which are only just a step above penny dreadfuls anyway, if at all.

Still, that young lad I saw on stage in Othello and Ivanov now ponces about in Marvel movies wearing a very silly hat. And even my two latest dvds, one of which I will admit to featuring a certain Fitzwilliam Darcy, couldn't possibly have anything, anything at all in common, until I thought of that one word: pond.

Oh dear, I do have a type. I am a profile. Insert the usual rant here.
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