The Week in Entertainment

Film: The Ghost Writer. Wow. This was a fabulous movie - tense and well-plotted, with excellent acting. The location was excellent, like another character...

DVD: The Black Guardian Trilogy (Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment) - Peter Davidson's Dr Who, when Turlough joined and Nyssa left. The last of Leverage Season One - so good, and the DVD has nice special features with good commentaries (unlike some).

TV: Ordinary People (yes, sort of a Tim Hutton week - he's in Ghost Writer, too, coincidentally) - which I had never seen before. This is one hell of a powerful film. Tim Hutton definitely earned his Oscar, and the other main actors (Judd Hirsch, Mary Tyler Moore, and especially Donald Sutherland) were terrific. Psych - Shawn in the think tank scenes was priceless.

Read: Started Robert Sapolsky's A Primate's Memoir, which is very funny, and insightful, too. The Chinese Parrot, a Charlie Chan mystery, nicely written.