There's a story about the origins of the song in the 1964 Mary Poppins movie, 'A Spoonful of Sugar' by the son of one of the Sherman brothers, that they were trying to come up with the song, and he came in from having his polio vaccine on a lump of sugar, and, BINGO! there was their song.

Okay, they changed it to spoonful....

The concept of ' ( Read more... )

Jacinta Ardern is not best pleased, and I'm not surprised:
Jacinda Ardern criticises new biography, saying author misled her: New Zealand prime minister says she agreed to interviews on basis that it was about a group of female leaders and ‘not specific to me’
Wow, that's pretty crappy behaviour - there's 'I'm going to write an unauthorised bio' ( Read more... )

Was recently watching the latest iteration of A Star is Born, which led me to ponder:
- has there ever been a version which has switched the genders around or otherwise shaken up that very standard dynamic?
- would it even work if so?
It depends on a lot of tropes and stereotypes, so if the just heading over the hill star was a woman I think we ( Read more... )

My own first boggle on coming across this was 'Errr: what about the other parties involved in your open relationship, eh? What about them and what do/did they feel about this? Were they at any point consulted?'
Jan Oliver Lucks and his fiancee decided to film their attempt at an open relationship - things did not go to plan. When Jan Oliver Lucks’ ( Read more... )