Declan Cashin

Writing: the art of applying the ass to the seat

My interview with Javier Bardem in Day & Night in today’s Independent

‘I have to go to the premiere later. I don’t know how I’m going to do it,” wheezes Javier Bardem, sluggishly stirring a dainty cup of tea in a dark hotel suite in central London.

The man does not look well. Though his skin is a healthy, sun-kissed shade of mahogany, his big, soulful-and-doleful eyes are puffy and bloodshot, and his voice is croaky and nasal.

The poor guy is smothered from a head-cold, something not helped by the fact that he has just jetted in to dank, rainy London from the scorched plains of Oklahoma, where he is busy filming an as-yet untitled project with legendary director Terrence Malick.

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The peerless Johann Hari has a great piece in today’s Indy responding to the disgraceful rubbish spouted by ignorant homophobes like Melanie Phillips this week in response to the good suggestion that mild gay lessons be incorporated into the school curriculum.

“In order to justify their desire to discriminate against gay people, the few remaining homophobes have concocted a scenario where they are The Real Victims.”

Read the full piece here.

The 2010 Best Picture Oscar nominees – done through Lego. See the rest here.

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