By gum, this is good. Bravura performance by Hurt, who even looks like Richard Feynman.

Even though I know the final result, and the attempts at cover-up, the tension remains.

There were some good things over Christmas. The first was seeing Kauto Star, a horse I have loved from afar since I first saw him, win his fourth King George VI Chase, the second most important race in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup (which he has won twice) in consecutive years. The great Desert Orchid won four, but he didn't win them in ( Read more... )