9 April 2003 20:03 [link]
pain
The Evening Standard had an odd headline this evening, following on from Gordon Brown's budget:
Smokers, drinkers feel pain
Presumably unless they've smoked or drunk enough....
I do sometimes wonder about the Standard's headline writers. I'm inclined to think they do it deliberately. The headlines they put on the newspaper stands are particularly susceptible to being skewed.
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9 April 2003 12:55 [link]
by george
Meeting news presenters in real life is slightly off-putting. I met George Alagiah a while back, and realised that I'd only ever seen him from the waist up before. I'd always just thought of him as half man, half news desk.
I was at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, taking some photos. He was there making a trailer for his BBC Four news program. I got in the way of his shot. He got in the way of mine.
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9 April 2003 11:25 [link]
celeb
My friend Kate is an expert celebrity spotter. She sees them everywhere (rather like fame-crazed person on an acid trip).
I am not an expert celebrity spotter. I can walk right past them without looking twice, much to Kate's amazement. "That was Michael Fish!" she'll say. "Really?" I'll reply. "I missed him entirely."
Today, however, I realised that Jeremy Bowen was holding the door open for me. Perhaps I'll start with news and current affairs, and then move on to the world of entertainment stars.
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