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Where Are They Now?
Congratulations to Sir Patrick Stewart on his knighthood and to Marley Shelton on the birth of her daughter. Safe to say that I can claim no credit for either.
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Daniel Defoe
Channel Five have been running Crusoe episodes every day throughout the holidays. Despite any initial reservations, now that I’ve seen how they play I think it’s been a good piece of scheduling. The show makes good, old-fashioned holiday fare. The first hour of my 2-part finale went out today… one regret I have is that…
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“Good Sentences, and Well Pronounced”
Someone once asked me how to go about achieving a writing style. Like the caterpillar challenged about its coordination in walking, I stumbled as soon as I started thinking about it. I think the best answer I could offer was that you should try to state the obvious simply, and the style would take care…
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Seen on Hollywood Boulevard
On the open street just along from the Egyptian Theater, this charming and child-friendly scene: And when you look more closely:
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A White Christmas
Only the second in my own memory; my first was, I think, in 1966, and I can fix the date because That Darn Cat was playing at the Princes Cinema in Monton and the snow-covered marquee features in the first roll of film I shot with my Christmas present, a Regula 35mm camera. I spotted…
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Christmas 2009
We’re all safely home – on a day of closed runways and widespread flight delays, our flights weren’t held up at all… we stopped for a curry and a sleep in Ealing and then, on a day of countrywide blizzards and blocked roads, we sailed through West London and up the M6 like there were…
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Happy Holidays
Most years I’ve just about managed to get all my Christmas cards out by now, but this isn’t most years. Instead of my usual last-minute scramble I’m facing a scramble of another kind – my ticket home is for a British Airways flight, and right now I can’t say whether I’ll be spending Christmas in…
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All Change
Fun and games here. I’ve seen the director’s cut of my new episode and feel good reason to be happy. Danny Cannon stopped by the office this morning to say nice things about it. It’s set to air in January; last I heard was the 12th, but that can change. It’s been part of my…
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The Potshots Always Find You
In the current issue of Ansible, David Langford notes: The Times Literary Supplement review of Dinah Birch’s new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature mutters that ‘There is palpable overcompensation for the previous neglect of science fiction.’ Though Neil Gaiman’s short entry is admired, there is sniffiness about the inclusion of ‘Stephen Gallagher,…
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Robert Holdstock
I just learned that Robert – Rob – Holdstock, a good man and a superior author, has died in intensive care after being laid low by an E Coli infection. He was 61. I first corresponded with Rob when he and Chris Morgan were co-editing Focus, a magazine on writing for writers and would-be writers,…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
