Life I'm entering my weblog into The Guardian's competition. I hope they take into account all of my writing over the past year and not just the dribs and drabs of the past few months. It'll be interesting to see who finally wins ... I hope it's no one we've heard of ...

TV Via the quick Channel 4 re-runs, finally saw Benton's final episode of e.r. which also featured a 'cameo' from The Book Group's Anne Dudek. She appears with all of the main characters and shares some of Benton's final dialogue in the hospital. If we can't get Clare Danes for the 'My So-Called Life' reunion movie, Dudek will do nicely as a grown up Angela Chase ...

Film If you can, go and see 'Lovely and Amazing' (previous previewed here). Sorry to report it isn't as good as director Nicole Holofcener's earlier film 'Walking and Talking' -- there was a tenderness there which is absent here. But it does have a revelatory performance from Emily Mortimer who on the basis of this role is someone to watch. Forget the girl we saw in Scream 3 who hadn't realised she was in a horror-spoof-comedy. Here she offers work of depth and maturity.

Upward And so days slip into weeks into months. With any luck I'll be back on-line at home in about three weeks when my new computer arrives. Until then you'll have to put with these brief updates. A bit 'Big Breakfast' then. No style, no content.