Went with the Original Ernie Dog (hi Ernie, hope you are reading) to see Rupert Everett do a Q & A at the NFT tonight after a screening of 'Another Country'. Actually I had wanted to see him but they told me it was sold out. Today on the way to Goldsmith's I saw in the Metro you could win tickets by calling a number and I won!! how about that? I wasn't sure if I would like him because I thought he may be a bit louche and arrogant-seeming but in fact I thought he came over fantastically. I found myself very envious of his life and wondering just how I have managed to acheive so little in my own. He seemed genuinely very funny and warm and also quite valiant in his willingness to talk candidly about himself, his sexuality and also about other famous people in his life. It brought to mind the offense I have on occasion caused using this blog, just imagine writing stuff in a book being sold all over the country! I liked him so much I went and bought his book: 'Red carpets and other banana skins (£18.95). I left it a bit late to go and get it so had to get one that was presigned as the man himself had wandered off somewhere. No hope of our eyes meeting over a bookstand then!
Watching a Tory candidate on Newsnight - somebody Reese-Mogg who talks remarkably like a male Margaret Thatcher. He actually said he wants the 'cleverest' people to be running the country not people who reflect the population!!! and that Oxford and Cambridge have some of the cleverest and most intelligent people both studying and teaching. This may be true but it is also true that a majority of these people come from affluent backgrounds if not stinking rich. He is basically implying that the rich and priveledged are more intelligent and 'cleverer'. what a fucking arsehole! His smug sister Anunziata Reese-Mogg was also on the program, she has made it into the tory 'A' list; whatever that is it sounds pretty elitist to me! it's the Line of Beauty all over again. It's like turning over a stone: behind the new exterior are the same old slugs that have always been lurking there. Boris Johnson is on now, do you think he bleaches his hair? it is like Andy Warhol's.

I have an audition tomorrow for a film to be shot in Paris (woohoo) but not paid. lee told me it was with a very good casting director and i hoped to god it was not G because it is excruciating auditioning for someone you know, especially someone who is so critical by nature; I have heard him completely dismiss the work of friends of his. probably rightfully because there is no point in soft soaping if you want to be taken seriously but still, he doesn't have to be quite so harsh. Anyway it isn't him so that's fine. Lee has suggested a speech from a play by Timberlake Wertenberger which I will do if I can find it because I want to do something fresh and not a stale old speech that's been wheeled out time and time again. It is great to have a former head of a drama school as an agent.
Finally saw laura today for the first time since right after Edinburgh. I have been meaning to hook up with her for ages but didn't get round to it and then lost my phone and went to Spain. Anyway was nice to see her. I am thinking about getting together with Ryan again and working some more on Rick Chester.