ships

there i am in my local cinema settling down to watch "sympathy for lady vengeance", a korean crime movie of some style (by the director of oldboy). the trailers are being shown. up comes basic instinct 2. whoooooo hoooo sharon stone in a movie, but not only sharron stone in a movie, but sharron stone in a movies being sexy. totally double bubble movie experience. it will be essential viewing.
i am there later in the week this time to see tsui hark's "seven swords" a wonderful historical fantasy about martial art swordmasters. the trailer before the film was basic instinct 2. i am jazzed i can't wait to see it.
but as i am watching this trailer for the second time there is a tinge of sadness.
basic instinct 2 is set in london, in fact some of it takes place in and near the swiss re building.
this modern classic building is only a stone's (geddit) throw away from where i live.
sharron stone was withing walking distance of me and i didn't know it. i could have hung around and gawped like the love sick puppy i am.
sharron stone is one of the last of the true screen goddesses. it doesn't matter what she does on the screen you are just drawn to her, she is beautiful, she has a sensual voice and it helps she can act. sure sharron has not always made the best choices when it comes to making films - but when she is hot she is hot!
(i was smitten with her from the moment she appeared on screen in basic instinct, which i saw at the cinema with my pal paul. many years after that i was watching a documentary abut the director paul verhooven and was shocked that that beeped out a fuck but showed the shot of stone's vagina. i mentioned this to paul and also said we must have seen the edited version, he told me no it was there on the screen. somehow when i saw this movie at the cinema i missed seeing sharron stone's pussy smiling at me several feet high).
anyway i missed her.
she was in my manor and i missed her.

london book fair. i was there. gorgeous george galloway was there. i was there being a booth bunny (dull, unpleasent work only enlivened by the passing by of tight skirted high heeled publishing babes (of which there were many....) the gorgeous one was there to promote his book the "fidel castro handbook". george galloway counts fidel among his friends and was granted access to the cuban archives to make the book the best of it's kind. i am sure that 3g is a great author, but it is a book i will pick up when it has been remaindered (no doubt in time for christmas).
of course questions were raised about galloway being there because the organisers of the event and the event location were both recently linked to an arm's trade fair.
many writers complained about this and the linking of the book's industry to the arms industry, though i am not sure how recent the linkage is - i am guessing that a fair few of the bigger publishing houses are connected in someways to unsavoury goings on.
but 3g has no excuse not to know that there were links between reed (the organisers) and excel (the location) and the arms trade show as many of his party followers would have been involved in protests that took place.
but needless to say (and as we all suspected) 3g is more interested in himself than he is in politics.
nexr year he will no doubt be displaying his book on the "sayings of saddam"!

but all i can say is that me and sharron and that me and gorgeous george galloway passed each other like ships in the night.