Duncan Driver

Teacher, student, pedestrian.

[Duncan Driver @drduncd]

@mrianleslie Stephen Fry tells a story about when a tramp shuffled into the Groucho Club and just stood there looking vacant. The manager who was called in to deal with the tramp had the presence of mind to extend his hand say, 'Mr Pacino! Thank you for gracing our little club!"

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@mrianleslie I know. I get annoyed by similar cliches of reportage. There's never a notable death without 'flowing tributes' or a Tour de France without a 'coveted' yellow jersey.

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@mrianleslie Good piece by Stephen Fry making similar points about the value of aesthetics. He brings both Oscar Wilde and Donald Trump into it, too: https://t.co/QoXrX6edvt

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@AdnanSamiLive Not too far off

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It’s two years old, but this review of ‘The Yellow Bittern’ (a London restaurant) is brilliant and hilarious. I love Jay Rayner. https://t.co/Jj6Su70SXy

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@mrianleslie “For Paul McCarney of Liverpool, opportunity knocks!”

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@mrianleslie @parul_sehgal @dankois @zinoman FYI: https://t.co/bEHvMUc3Dl

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This time last year, I wrote a review of @mrianleslie's "John & Paul." The wheels of academic journals turn slowly, but the piece is now up: https://t.co/oCEKZ7yBVS

I can't think of a better stocking filler that this book. Read it, laugh, cry and clutch it to your heart.

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Tom Stoppard was one of the great smokers, puffing insouciance in every portrait. He had a great rejoinder whenever a moralising Malvolio coughed and complained as he lit up: 'How differently I might behave were immortality an option.'

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Ave atque vale, Tom Stoppard.

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@mrianleslie I loved the man and his writing. One of my favourite anecdotes involved a junior editor at some paper making pretty significant changes to James's copy. When he saw the extent of them, he called the junior editor and rebuked, 'Listen, mate, if I wrote like that, I'd be you.'

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@BeatlesEarth Here’s a fine example of where we shouldn’t be forced into a choice. I love the way that ‘John’ songs are exceptionally strong on RS and ‘Paul’ songs are exceptionally strong on R. It’s all about the yin and yang of Lennon and McCartney.

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Hyacinth has kicked the bouquet. Thank you for teaching us that snobbery can sometimes be quite an amiable vice.

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@jaketapper @JohnCleese I’m no fan of Trump, but the question is disingenuous. If he thought his business activities were inappropriate, he wouldn’t be going about them the way he is.

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@McCARTNEYLEGACY @TellurideFests @TellurideFilm Interesting. It would seem that ‘Man on the Run’ has sprinted away from Netflix

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30 years later, and the song finally sounds like it should. It's no exaggeration to say that there is still something magical about the Beatles that sets them apart from everyone else.

https://t.co/wY0zTSmZWK

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@mrianleslie So glad you liked the Auden sonnet!

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@mrianleslie @PrivateEyeNews You also made it to the audiobook of Adam Buxton's "I Love you, BYEEE!" memoir, albeit in a strange way. There's a bonus podcast at the end in which Adam and filmmaker Joe Cornish discuss the book. Adam's phone starts randomly playing the first chapter of J&P.

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I can’t get this German rap song out of my head, now, neither will you.

https://t.co/gpvKNUxowo

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Oasis don’t seem as ‘mad for it’ as they once were.