Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

What is Camille Paglia doing, writing that an actress as gifted as Anne Heche has the mental depth of a pancake? How many pancake brains could do what Heche did with David Mamet's dialogue in Wag the Dog? No doubt Heche has been stuck with a few bad gigs, but Paglia, of all people, must be well aware that being an actress is not the same safe ride as being the tenured university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.