And what does that word mean again? A battle between street cars? Something of that sort?

Anyway, I do agree, “The Big Lebowski” is great fun.

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I don’t have a “favorite” general. Never even considered it. Interesting notion, though.

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I noticed Mr. Harrington did not ask which is your favorite painting.

Very rarely, and almost all of it now destroyed.

I should imagine at least one film by the great Powell & Pressburger to make your list.

Well, this wasn’t meant to be a list, and indeed it isn’t a list, and even were it a list, it would be a list of “favorite” films, which is not the same thing as “greatest” films. Rommel or Patton may have been the “greatest” general of all time, but that doesn’t prevent Prince Rupert (for example) from being one’s “favorite” general of all time.

Of Powell & Pressburger, I’ve only seen a few — “Forty-ninth Parallel”, “Colonel Blimp”, “A Canterbury Tale”, “The Battle of the River Plate” — but I’ve generally found them greatly enjoyable. Should such a list be drawn up, they would probably be in my Top Twenty Favorites.

I say, Andrew, aren’t you being facetious?

I should imagine at least one film by the great Powell & Pressburger to make your list.

I’ve been wondering, have you ever written any fiction?

Which, though set in Kenya, was actually filmed in Zimbabwe.

But where? I just read that East Africa is reunifying after a quarter-century or so apart. How’s Nairobi sound? Could be just like “In the Heat of the Sun”.

Thanks for this. Enjoyed it immensely. I do believe you’re channeling good ol’ Bill Buckley.

And as I’ve said here before, “Cusack for President!”…or perhaps pope. There is no Mrs. Cusack as far as I’m aware. It’s still possible!