At the bottom of my street – really, barely a hundred yards from my front door – a bunch of puffy-jacketed types are spending most of today filming ‘Nowhere Boy’, a biography of the young John Lennon. It’s Sam Taylor Wood’s first feature directing gig. Kristin Scott Thomas is playing Aunt Mimi, and newbie Aaron Johnson shoulders the Lennon burden, while I’m [...]
March 25, 2009 | Posted in
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Welcome to Gollywog World
The furore may have died down over Carol Thatcher’s inappropriate comments in The One Show’s green room, but it got me thinking about the little Gollywog I had as a child, and whether or not that undeniably loved creature somehow bolstered some form of inherent racism within my prepube form, raised, as I was, in [...]
February 21, 2009 | Posted in
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