I'm always behind the times where films and television programmes are concerned, so it has taken me until now to see (via Netflix) the 2014 release The Theory of Everything.
I loved it.
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones are tremendous.
Watch it if you can.
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On a vaguely related note, while queuing at the checkout in our local supermarket the other day I noticed that the gentleman in front of us had a familiar face. It quickly dawned on me that it was none other than Peter Higgs, though as most of his shopping was in bags by this stage I can't tell you what cerebral sustenance this man of mighty brain was buying.
Higgs of the Boson fame?
I don't keep up with films or very much TV since there are all those books waiting to be read.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 22 January 2017 at 06:25 PM
Yes, the very same. Quite a thing to rub shoulders with a Nobel Prize-winner in Waitrose!
Posted by: Cornflower | 22 January 2017 at 06:43 PM
I have met at least one Nobel Laureate on top of the Jura; but that's not too surprising I guess. As you know I've known Peter for over fifty years now, but haven't seen him in person for about ten years I think. My mother is having lunch with him in the next week or so.
Posted by: Dark Puss | 23 January 2017 at 07:38 AM
Kindest regards to your mother, DP.
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2017 at 02:02 PM
I stood next to Ulrika Jonsson in Waitrose once, although I've never actually watched any of her TV programs & would have been more impressed with sharing orbits with Prof Higgs.
Posted by: Spade & Dagger | 23 January 2017 at 04:31 PM
The only other 'famous' person I've seen in Waitrose is a member of the Scottish rugby team. I think Prof. Higgs is in another realm (albeit not one that's the focus of attention of teenage girls!)
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2017 at 06:40 PM
I can claim Michael Palin in a queue at Neal's Yard Dairy and very recently David Mellor having tea at the next table at The Goring.
Posted by: Lucille | 23 January 2017 at 07:52 PM
And didn't you have a rather famous visitor at your house a little while ago?!
Posted by: Cornflower | 24 January 2017 at 11:59 AM
I am so impressed that you recognise Nobel prize-winners rathar than reality TV stars! I would recognise neither. I can also claim Michael Palin in a queue but would have to change tables if I found myself next to David Mellor as I can't abide the way - he - speaks - very slowly - on - Classic FM - as if he's - speaking - to a very - stupid - voter.
Posted by: Mary | 24 January 2017 at 02:56 PM
Yes!
Posted by: Cornflower | 24 January 2017 at 03:32 PM
I think my strangest encounter with 'names' was Ian McKellen and Monica Lewinsky, who were together. I found myself watching a lunar eclipse with them on a balcony at the National Theatre in London. You couldn't make it up.
Posted by: Claire | 24 January 2017 at 04:48 PM
You couldn't!
Posted by: Cornflower | 24 January 2017 at 05:53 PM
Matthew Pinsent was behind me in Kidlington Sainsbury's once. I don't remember what he was buying. I do remember he was huge.
Posted by: Ros | 26 January 2017 at 01:41 PM
How could I have forgotten? Thank you for giving me the opportunity to trot out dear Mark Rylance again. Also whilst I'm at it, Sally Magnusson interviewed me for Tracing Your Roots on Radio 4 and Jonathan Ross sang 'Lucille' to me on his radio programme. Not a proud boast.
Posted by: Lucille | 27 January 2017 at 03:19 PM
My goodness!
Posted by: Cornflower | 28 January 2017 at 02:19 PM
I bet!
Posted by: Cornflower | 28 January 2017 at 02:19 PM
Thinking about it, I now remember standing next to Joanna Lumley at the bread department of Harrods Food Hall in the early 1980's. I was browsing, looking for a foodie gift, but she appeared to be doing a normal shop.
We remember bumping into Rolf Harris in the dry cleaners, when he was at the height of his popularity for creating vast public paintings.
The whole family have met Prime Minister Theresa May a number of times over two decades as she has always been very active visiting playgroups, schools & local events. As her political profile increased, so did the number of security staff that accompanied her. On every occasion she was very pleasant and seemed interested in what was happening.
Posted by: Spade & Dagger | 30 January 2017 at 09:22 AM
Found myself waiting behind Francis Ford Coppola at the cash desk at WH Smith's in Paris a number of years ago. I only discovered it was him when the assistant said 'Do you know who that was?'
Posted by: Grace | 31 January 2017 at 06:06 PM
Apologies. Me again. Joanna Lumley once crossed a picket line I was on outside the publishing house I worked for. Neil Tennant was on that picket line with us.
Posted by: Lucille | 04 February 2017 at 09:23 AM
Alan Titchmarsh and Wayne Sleep, but not together.
(Will someone put the cloth back over that woman's cage please?)
Posted by: Lucille | 04 February 2017 at 09:27 AM
No, no, Lucille, keep 'em coming!
Posted by: Cornflower | 04 February 2017 at 10:39 AM