I should start by saying: I am not a joiner. I have a visceral aversion to authority – particularly the kind of authority that comes with uniforms and guns and swagger. The Military is simply my worst nightmare of brainless machismo and I get unbearably frustrated watching movies that celebrate the mindless abuse of power….
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On Christmas night, once the hoardes of revellers had left and we’d got about a third of the way through the cleaning, we all collapsed on the couch for Hairspray. Not the icky 1988 John Waters opus, but the magnificent, ebullient, entertaining 2007 one, most famous, perhaps for John Travolta in drag. Featuring a truly…
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