Who is the Secret Actor? #2

Film I wasn't intending to make this a weekly venture but ...

This week's column is shorter and more enigmatic and seems to be missing a final paragraph. Are we supposed to assume the writer is Once Famous Actor or Young Actress or neither?

The latter would make sense and confirm my assumption that this is someone who's already written for The Guardian like Romila Garai, who's previously written something similar when The Observer ran the "my week" column.

Let's see what Gender Genie says.

The first column when put through as a blog entry (which is what it amounts to) says:

Female Score: 403
Male Score: 548
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

This second column?

Female Score: 639
Male Score: 483
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

So that's inconclusive unless there's more than one columnist or we're seeing the gendered intrusion of sub-editors.

Just to check, I put my Doctor Who review this week through the genie too, and  ...

Female Score: 4057
Male Score: 4924
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Just for fun, I also passed Garai's my week column though and ...

Female Score: 1280
Male Score: 1481
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Which puts us right back at the beginning again. Until the actor person starts dropping proper anecdotes we won't really have a clue, especially since in terms of Garai's career, a Once Famous Actor has too many candidates ...

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