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and other weird ‘Secondary picketing is a right A ‘Strong , stable’ postcard ‘Say no to hate’ T-shirt election swag that should be enjoyed’ mug six-pack Greens, £19 Conservatives, £15 Conservatives, £6 “The message is clear,” the blurb The Tories’ online store has the You’d like to send six of your announces. Confusingly, the air of a chummy Cotswolds gift closest friends a “Strong , Stable message could also be: “Say hat can we learn from shop. This item features a quote Leadership in the National no to Green party.” All organic W our political parties’ from Neil Kinnock set against an Interest” postcard ? Are you cotton, mind, and “produced online shops? If you austere grainy photo of 80s indus- sure they wouldn’t prefer the in an ethically accredited visit Ukip’s online gift shop and trial unrest. It would go very well traditional newsprint cutouts wind-powered factory”. all the item photography looks as with a cup of Fortnum & Mason and a human fi nger? if it was done on a Nokia N95 in a earl grey (not included). At £15 drainage ditch full of purple dye, each, Tetley is a non-starter. could it be a sign that they might not be up to much? We swept each party’srty s swag for signs of competence. ence. Gavin Haynesaynes

A mens’ bag you might have Jeremy Corbyn monochrome A grey binder bought at a Camden Market stall T-shirts Ukip, £6 circa 1999 Labour, £12.50 Ukip’s swag has declined along Lib Dems, £10.99 And to those who say St Jeremy of with its star. In 2011, a bunch of You’d look more on-trend in the N1 has built a cult of personality, fruitcake outsiders were off ering Lib Dem hi-vis bib, yours for only you can only point them towards lighters that protested against the £1 4.50 . And while you’re wear- your Jeremy Corbyn tote bag, smoking ban and a mug featuring ing your bib, why not whip out of say: “that is not recognisably a David Cameron that made his your bag a copy of The Liberals in personality” and sip more Kaliber nose grow Pinocchio-longer Hampshire? And if you think it’s from your Jeremy Corbyn pint when fi lled with hot liquids. boring, you’ve clearly not tried glass . Sadly, the party’s infamous Now the gifts are dross. None Liberals in Hampshire Part 2, still “ Controls on immigration” mug is more so than the chance to buy a used in place of anaesthetic in now a collectors’ item. grey binder that fi ts “12 copies of certain developing nations. Independence magazine” .

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2 The Guardian 22.05.17 Pass notes No 3,858 Love songs

HACK ACHE

Showbiz Sharkey began helping out during Age: Many hundreds of years old. school holidays. Status: In decline. The A-list “I remember once, in 1965, my Oh, hardly. The love song is one of the most father saying: ‘That’s the richest enduring romantic gestures in the history of passport man in the world. Take him his humanity. Tell that to the music charts, buster. photo offi ce photos. He might give you a tip.’ Why? What’s happened? According to research He didn’t. Maybe John Paul Getty published in the journal Sexuality & Culture, pop didn’t get to be the richest man in A study by songs are now less likely to be about love than at the world by giving little kids tips.” neuroscientist any point since the 1960s. n a two-room, white-walled Since then, S harkey has seen Dr Tara Swart That can’t be right. Let me go and check the basement off Oxford Street them all come come and go, rich released last week charts. Be my guest. I suggests that in central London, behind and poor. “It’s like going to the Right, the No 1 song at the moment is Despacito the Dyson showroom, is a tiny dentist,” he says. “They’re on their journalists’ brains ( remix) (feat Justin Bieber) by Luis Fonsi & operate at a lower portrait gallery , and if Philip best behaviour, because they don’t Daddy Yankee. And what are the lyrics, exactly? level than the S harkey has a few minutes he will want you to mess it up. Richard average population “You fi t me tailor-made, love how you put it show you around. Harris was a bit pissed though. thanks to caffeine, on / Got the only key, know how to turn it on / “That’s Alec Guinness ,” he Uri Geller bent a spoon. We didn’t high-sugar foods, The way you nibble on my ear, the only words says, pointing at a miniature print ask him to. It was our only spoon.” self-medicating and I wanna hear / Baby, take it slow so we can last of the steely-eyed actor. “That’s Despite moving from its prime dehydration. Dont no long.” See? That’s a love song. No, it isn’t. That’s Peter O’Toole … Lena Horne. All location opposite Selfridges in wot you’re torking about sex. four Beatles . Mia Farrow. Woody 2014, Passport Photo Service is about … What’s the diff erence? OK, let’s take a classic Allen is on a separate wall. Arnold still going strong, thanks to its love song. Say, Let’s Stay Together by Al Green Schwarzenegger. That was for his Google-friendly name . “ Joan from 197 1. That’s a meditation on the satisfaction green card, in 1977.” Collins is the most loyal,” says of weathering a rocky relationship. It’s an Sharkey runs Passport Photo S harkey. “ Ringo Starr always acknowledg ment that monogamy can bring Service, pur veyors of passport, comes back. Howard Jacobson spiritual enrichment. green card, visa and ID portraits is a regular.” Right. And Despacito is about Justin Bieber which, thanks to its convenient S harkey’s favourite encounter asking a woman to help him stop climaxing location (a quick dash from the was Muhammad Ali, who stopped too quickly . American embassy) speedy genial by in 1974, on his way to fi ght Ah, gotcha. This isn’t a one-off , either. The service, and word-of-mouth George Foreman in the Democratic research analysed 1,250 songs released between (“Where did you get your Republic of the Congo (then 1960 and 2008, and found that, while only 7% of portraits done, darling?”), ha s Zaire). “He said: ‘Take all these songs from the 60s were about sex, that number been snapping 2x3 in passport pictures down and replace them had increased to 40% by the end of the study. pics of the famous since 1953. with one big photo of me!’” Really? Why? The study points the fi nger at rap “My father started the But, says S harkey, their most music, which turned up in the 1990s and was company,” says S harkey. “He was important visitor was probably generous in its discussion of roving genitals. an East End boxer who did Paul Robeson, in 1958. So is this actually a problem? Well, probably photography on the side. He “He’d just got his passport back not when you realise that love has almost found a way to develop photos in from the US always been a euphemism for sex in music. 10 minutes. Before Polaroids, government, The Look of Love is about sex. Ticket to Ride before booths, nowhere did after being is about sex. If anything, all this shows is that same-day service. He rented an blacklisted. He censorship has relaxed over the last 50 years. offi ce at 309 Oxford Street. The sang my father And anyway, only a fool would look for moral American embassy referred people Ol’ Man River. guidance from a pop song. to him. The fi rst famous person There were So what’s the solution? There isn’t one. Although through the door was Errol Flynn. tears in my if anybody fancies castrating Justin Bieber, I’m He stood with his hands on his father’s eyes sure that wouldn’t hurt.

SARAH LEE hips and said: ‘Yep! It’s me!’” when he told Do say: “I want to hold your hand …” With his mum and dad both me that story.” Don’t say: “… While you diddle me something

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Arwa Mahdawi Griefsploitation by brands is an advertising trend that needs to die

ds are everywhere. They are on our Facebook lows a fl urry of very bad tweets by companies trains, they are on our planes, they trying to muscle their brand into the conversation. A are wrapped around our automobiles. doesn’t When Prince died last year, for example, Cheerios They are in our homes, on our homes, want grief tweeted “Rest in peace” on a purple background – they are even on the homeless. Yes, with a cheerio replacing the dot above the i. Fans really; homeless people have been used as media to consume were not impressed and Cheerios quickly deleted space by marketers thinking outside the box ; you, it the tweet. Mind you, Cheerios’ tweet was the charmingly, it’s called “bumvertising”. Still, de- height of good taste compared with Homebase, spite the constant creep of commercialism there is wants you who didn’t even bother making it look as if they one fi nal frontier that has, as yet, remained bliss- cared about anything other than promoting them- fully ad-free: the graveyard. to consume selves. Homebase tweeted “Good morning eve- This isn’t to say that death doesn’t sell. On the your way ryone, happy Friday. If you need our assistance contrary, posthumous fame is often the most lu- we’re here until 8pm today, get tweeting. Have a crative. In Mark Twain’s play Is He Dead?, an artist out of grief good day! #RIPPRINCE. ” As you can expect, it too fakes his death to increase the value of his work. was soon deleted. As one of the characters explains: “A painter has Brands aren’t just leveraging celebrity deaths so much more talent when he’s dead. Indeed, the for product placement; national tragedies also deader he is, the better he is.” However, death make great #content opportunities. Who could normally doesn’t sell consumer brands. Nobody forget AT&T’s twin towers tweet? In 2013, the wants to see ads for fl ame-grilled burgers at a cre- telecommunications company posted a tweet matorium. Or be reminded that the unstoppable on 11 September that showed someone holding a march of time means we are all going to die no phone up over the Tribute in Light memorial in matter how much expensive skin cream we New York City with the caption “Never Forget”. slather on. Death is not aspirational and exploiting And, after the Boston marathon bombing in loss for commercial gain is clearly inappropriate. 2013, the food website Epicurious tweeted: “In Well, perhaps it’s not quite clear to everyone honor of Boston … may we suggest: wholegrain that it is. Last week, McDonald’s got a lot of grief cranberry scones! ” for a TV advert that seemingly exploited bereaved Shoehorning your brand into a social media children in order to fl og fi sh sandwiches. More Sex sells, death conversation about a tragedy may be tasteless but shouldn’t than 150 people complained to the Advertising it is a fairly rudimentary form of griefsploitation. Standards Authority about the dead dad ad and it Far more insidious is the way in which brands are has now been pulled with the usual PR fauxpol- now using our personal data to target us at the ogy. “We respect our customers and their money moments when we’re feeling most vulnerable. very much and regret implying that a fried fi sh Facebook has told advertisers it can identify fi llet could replace a father’s love etc etc.” wwhen teenagers are feeling “stressed”, “defeated”, McDonald’s execs can take some solace in the ““overwhelmed”, “anxious” and “useless”, for ex- fact that they aren’t the only marketing minds to aample. It has also explicitly furnished advertisers have inexplicably decided that invoking family wwith advice on how best to exploit – sorry, I mean tragedy would be a winning strategy. In 2015 “help”“ – people dealing with the grief of a breakup. Nationwide aired an ad featuring a drowned Facebook’sF research explains that heartbreak is child during the SuperBowl. “I’ll never learn to tthe ideal marketing opportunity for those in the ride a bike,” says a sweet little boy as the ad be- ttravelr business: in the month after a newly single gins. “I’ll never get married ... I couldn’t grow up Facebook user has announced their breakup, because I died from an accident.” The camera there is an “increase of 25% more travel-related cuts abruptly away to an ominously overfl ow- purchases”. Apparently “travel therapy has ing bath before reminding you that Nationwide rreplaced retail therapy”: 55% of people surveyed can “make safe happen”. And, hey, if safe doesn’t bby Facebook said that travelling after their breakup happen then at least you’ll get some life insur- hehelped them move on, while only 8% of people ance money. Just think how many consolatory ssaida that shoes helped them move on. To be hon- fi sh sandwiches you’ll be able to buy with that. esest, some of these people probably just aren’t buy- Now, to be clear, I don’t think that the ing the right shoes. I mean, if you get boots that are McDonald’s or Nationwide ads were made by made for walking, then that’s just what they’ll do. Machiavellian monsters, cynically mining pain Anyway, if you break up with someone and for profi t. They were just bad ads created by an fi nd yourself suddenly bombarded with online industry so high on its own puff ery that it truly ads for Virgin Holidays, this is probably why. believes fast food brands have important things Facebook is trying to help you heal. They care. to say about bereavement. They don’t want grief to consume you, they want Nevertheless, there does appear to be a growing you to consume your way out of grief. It’s really trend of brands engaging in griefsploitation. For very sweet of them. At the very least, it’s better instance, every time a celebrity dies, there fol- than a slap in the face with a wet fi let of fi sh.

22.05.17 The Guardian 5 he last time I saw Jill Kevin Bacon and Griffi n Dunne. The “I think I’d had two hours of makeup ‘I’m having Soloway, it was the autumn most reductive description of the book before last time we met, didn’t I? my queer T of 2014. The writer and is that it’s about a married woman, Wow,” Soloway says, marvelling at adolescence director of Transparent Chris Kraus, and her obsession with their past self. “Anyway, have you seen now’ … Soloway; had fl own over from the US an academic called Dick. But what it’s the show? Tell me what you think.” (left) Transparent ahead of the show’s launch , and we met really about is chaotic female sexuality What I think is this: no one creates in a central London hotel room. Solo- and the ethics of using your life in your female characters as original as way had more than an hour’s hair and work – in other words, ideal grist for Soloway does, in all their angry, makeup beforehand, and was visibly Soloway’s mill – and they have done damaged and highly sexed glory. nervous, uncertain what the reception a clever job in adapting a seemingly There’s Rachel in the 2013 fi lm would be for a show with a trans char- unadaptable novel. However , where Afternoon Delight (played by Soloway’s acter at its centre; Soloway, I wrote in Transparent is underpinned by familial neighbour and regular collaborator, my notes, “fi ddled a little girlishly with love and Jewish comedy, making it Kathryn Hahn), who hires a stripper her long hair”. Bruce Gilbert, Soloway’s accessible to the masses, I Love Dick is as a nanny and throws her family husband, was working as music super- soaked in feminist rage, so I suspect its into chaos; or Sarah (Amy Landecker) visor on Transparent, and we discussed appeal will be a tad niche. in Transparent, who trashes two how nice it was to have the support This time we meet at Soloway’s marriages and begs dominatrixes to of your spouse in the workplace. One house, up in the hills of Silverlake, spank her; and now there’s Chris (also thing Soloway did not especially want Los Angeles. It’s one of the most Hahn), gloriously unhinged in her fury to discuss were the personal experi- desirable areas of the city, although its at a world so freaked out by female ences that infl uenced the show, and I bohemian reputation is now somewhat art and desire. And seeing women like had to ask about them several times undermined by the expensive cars this on screen, I say to Soloway, feels before it fi nally emerged that Soloway’s parked in front of the rambling almost as revolutionary as putting a own parent was transgender. bungalows – Porsches, 4x4s and, of trans character at the centre of a show. Well, two and a half years can be a course, Priuses. Soloway still shares “I totally agree,” Soloway says, long time. Transparent, of course, has the bright and rambling house with drinking an iced tea on the sofa. been a huge international success, a Gilbert and their eight-year-old son “And in many ways I Love Dick’s the major force in bringing discussions ( Soloway also has an older son from a perfect show for now, because so many of trans rights to the mainstream. previous relationship), and glimpses women are so fi lled with rage. Soloway is now rightfully celebrated of their now wildly successful life are If we were in Hillary’s America, I think as one of the most original voices scattered around, like Through the people would have been like: ‘What’s working in this golden age of TV Keyhole clues: a script for Transparent she so mad about?’ But now it’s like: and has been duly garlanded with is on the table, a clutch of Emmys ‘Well of course she’s furious.’ It felt like awards. On a personal level there are shoved in the drinks cabinet and the entire planet got sexually harassed have been changes, too. Soloway an assistant is in the kitchen making [when Trump was elected].” and Gilbert have separated and the guacamole. Soloway , who looks like Soloway’s production company director now identifi es as a gender Lena Dunham’s older sibling and is as is called Topple, as in toppling the non-conforming queer person, who warm and engaging as I remember, is patriarchy. What does that mean in a prefers to be referenced with gender- in a checked shirt and Gucci pyjama practical sense? “Well, I would just like neutral pronouns (they/them/their), trousers. The long hair is gone, to topple the whole thing: get Trump and if reading an interview in that replaced by cool little quiff , and unlike out of offi ce, have a female president, a style takes some getting used to, I can last time, Soloway is bare-faced: queer president, a person of colour, that assure you that writing it up did, too. war is not the default. And if Trump Soloway has also become much more can be president I have to believe that comfortable talking in interviews something like this can also rise. I just about how their shifting gender and hope [I Love Dick] is something women sexual politics inform their work, of will tuck under their arms and hold which there now seems to be a never- close to them, because if Transparent ending stream. was about the trans community then On top of currently fi nishing up the Dick is really about the female gaze. fourth series of Transparent, writing a This really is a celebration of the memoir and making a movie, Soloway feminine,” they say. has made another series for Amazon, Soloway has been trying to celebrate I Love Dick , based on Chris Kraus’s cult the feminine since they started 1997 novel , starring Kathryn Hahn, writing for TV. While working → ‘When people gender me as female, I feel strange’

The g2 interview Jill Soloway, the writer and director of Transparent, talks to Hadley Freeman about the feminist SARAH LEE FOR THE GUARDIAN ideals behind new show I Love Dick, coming out as non-binary

and why being called pretty feels like ‘a strange insult’ PHOTOGRAPH

6 The Guardian 22.05.17 ‘I Love Dick’s the perfect show for now, because so many women are so fi lled with rage’

22.05.17 The Guardian 7 The g2 interview

on shows including Six Feet Kimberly Peirce . Soloway doesn’t even ← Under, United States of Tara and yell “Action” or “Cut”, preferring “Go Grey’s Anatomy, Soloway kept writing on then” and “That’ll do.” their own stuff , and has “at least 10 “All the traditions of fi lm-making scripts” on their desk featuring female – the shouting, the prioritising of characters, many of which have what schedules, the way it feels a little they describe as a “hipster Jewiness” like war and there’s a lot of men on to them and “a so-called inappropriate set, the being on call all the time, attitude to sex”. they work very well for anyone who “I do feel lucky that there was a sea has a masculine intention and never change in the past fi ve years with Lena wants to be home. But we brought Dunham, Tina Fey, Broad City and feminist, cooperative, utopian ideals Amy Schumer, where a quote unquote to the workplace in a way that gave Kathryn Hahn Soloway pauses for a moment: “I’m unlik able – that’s just a phrase that this immediate bounty,” Soloway says and Juno Temple actually renovating a house down the refl ects the mainstream view – female proudly, and the Emmys in the booze in Afternoon road and I brought this theory to the heroine can carry a show. Because cupboard are a testament to that. Delight, 2013; guys working on it.” before I kept being told: ‘Where’s the (below) Jeff rey And how did the builders take to great man at the centre of this?’ or ‘She ne utopian ideal that Solo- Tambor in being told to share their feelings? seems a little diffi cult,’” Soloway says, way brings to their sets is Transparent, “I was really worried they were just their voice spiking with sarcasm. O what they call “doing box”, 2014; (bottom) going to think I was a total asshole. Soloway was also known for being which is when everyone Soloway, third Then I fi nally gave myself permission a little diffi cult. In 2011, Soloway was gets together at the begin- from left, to say one day: ‘I do this thing at work turned down for a writing job on Glee ning of the day, stands on a box and with cast of and I want to try it here.’ We now because of their tricky reputation and shares whatever they’re going though Transparent, have a weekly meeting and we go their agent lent them money to tide in their personal life. This way, Soloway 2017 around and say how they are. We call it them over. But instead of using that says, “Everyone knows humans are pri- emotional check-in. It’s really sweet,” loan to pay off their debts, Soloway oritised over time and money here. It’s Soloway grins. made Afternoon Delight, which led to a patriarchal-toppling tool.” Has it helped with the house? a best director award at Cannes, which (Soloway is moving to this new house, in turn led to Transparent. It’s a classic and Gilbert is staying in the family Soloway story, in that they refused to home.) “For sure and … OH MY GOD do the conventional thing and ended YOU GOT YOUR HAIR CUT IT LOOKS up winning anyway, which would AMAZING!” certainly annoy a lot of people. But Soloway breaks off to shout at what does Soloway think people meant a short-haired woman who has when they labelled them “diffi cult”? just walked in. It’s Soloway’s older “I probably was a little bit diffi cult, sister, Faith, who stays with them a actually. If I was on somebody else’s few months a year while they work show and I felt something could be on Transparent together, and the better, it would be hard for me not to conversation that ensues could be stand up,” Soloway says. straight out of the show: On set , Soloway encourages Faith: It’s great, but it feels a little everyone to speak up if they see a Hitler-y. problem, pointing out mistakes that Jill: You don’t look like Hitler. will “illuminate the path to a more ‘There’s a feeling of being Faith: I don’t? truthful moment”, wresting the Jill: No, you look so cute. Will it usual directing techniques away from grown up and that doesn’t change the way you move through the those with “masculine intention”. world, do you think? Talking with Soloway is a little really work for me if I’m Faith: I’m sure it will [she does an reminiscent of the conversationsons I exaggerated cowcowboy walk and they had with friends when we discoveredscovered feelingfeeling feminine’ bbothoth laugh.] I’I’mm such a boy, right? feminist and queer theory andd JJill:ill: Yeah,Ye it looks great. revelled in the jargon. And, SSuperuper cute. as in those university days, I ppoint out that the two the experience is both ooff themth are wearing near- thrilling and occasionally identicalide checked shirts. bewildering. Faith: Oh yeah! Soloway talks about Jill: Yeah, it looks how “the gaze is male, and cute,c right? the urge to squarify the “Cute” is one of activity is male”, which is Soloway’sS favourite fun, even if it doesn’t get us ppraise words now when very far (so should screens nowow referringref to a person’s be circular?). But no one can lookslooks . “When people accuse Soloway of being just gendergender me as female, I feel talk: their sets are famously strange, aand if someone is like, diverse and I Love Dick has ‘You look sos pretty’ or ‘beautiful’, been directed largely by women,en, I feelfeel ooffff ended.end It’s like I’m including Andrea Arnold and succeedingsucceeding ata something feminine

8 The Guardian 22.05.17 when I’m not trying, and that feels like sense .” The highly sophisticated sec- a strange insult,” Soloway says. ‘I’m happy to speak on behalf ond series of Transparent looks at how These days, Soloway adds , they get of women but when I’m seen gender and sexual traumas reverber- rid of their whole wardrobe every six ate in families and impact later gener- months: “I’m changing every day, so as non-binary, I get treated ations, so I ask if Soloway thinks their every six months I’m like: ‘None of this father’s issues with gender aff ected stuff makes sense any more.’ I got rid more as a human being’ Soloway and Faith? of every even slightly feminine shoe. “Oh totally. Faith and I, we used There’s a feeling of being grown up, A lengthy correspondence ensues, in to have an idea for a play called The and moving through the world and which Soloway sends me emails fi lled Soloway Brothers, and we both have feeling like I’m the subject instead of with phrases such as “a non-binary, thought of ourselves as boyish our the object and that doesn’t really work spherical, balanced crucible for being whole lives, even though I was more for me if I’m feeling feminine.” that is un-gendered”. But after a few female. I guess I didn’t see myself as But, I say, surely the revolution is in weeks of this, in which I basically ask a boy when I was younger, but now re-defi ning what feminine or female the same questions over and over and we both see ourselves as boys , kind of attractiveness means rather than they patiently reply in various ways, jokingly.” rejecting femaleness? After all, I Love Soloway sends an email that makes me However Soloway sees themself, Dick makes the feminine the subject. sit up: “I identify as trans, which means there is no doubt they are now having “I think it’s more about the binary, that I am not seeking to synthesise my a good time. They are currently the masculine and feminine,” Soloway appearance with the label assigned to single, having recently come out says, lapsing back into the jargon. me at birth and instead am opting to of a relationship with beat poet “There will always be incredibly live in a space where a label other than Eileen Myles. “I’m having my queer masculine people and completely male or female is used to defi ne me,” adolescence now,” Soloway smiles. feminine people, but that has nothing they write. “It’s fun.” We then talk a little about to do with people’s bodies, whether I hadn’t heard Soloway use the the cliched dynamics men and they have a penis or vagina. And word “trans” in relation to themself women fall into in relationships, and besides those two poles there’s also a before, so I ask them to elaborate. Soloway tells me a story about how place in the middle, the non-binariness, “Under the transbrella, there are so they recently eavesdropped on some the people who don’t register as one or many identities. I haven’t made the couples in a jacuzzi (“And the men the other. I’m happy to speak on behalf big ‘I’m trans’ announcement because were like: ‘If I get her a kitchen, maybe of women and on behalf of feminism. the politics in the community are I’ll get sex!’”) that makes me double But I notice when people see me as so intense. It’s more like I had the up laughing. non-binary, I get treated more as a realisation that the word cis didn’t At this point, the Guardian’s human being,” Soloway says. work for me, so fi rst there was the ‘not- photographer, Sarah, turns up and Hearing Soloway, whose work is so cis’ revelation, which linguistically suddenly the room is fl ooded with profoundly feminist, suggest that the means the same thing as trans. As I women: aside from Faith, there’s best way to be treated as a human is to said, most people who play with gender the photographer, me and at least not be a woman is so befuddling t hat I norms like butch women don’t identify three assistants variously connected am almost speechless. But, I manage, as trans so it’s a little wobbly. I think in to Soloway, and Soloway promptly isn’t the point that the defi nition of a year or two, more people will.” involves us all in the photo. “I don’t a woman should be broader, as they want to look like a girl, OK?” Soloway have shown in their work. To retreat oloway grew up in Chicago tells Sarah, and one of the assistants from being called a woman feels as if and their father was an brings down a recent magazine shoot they are giving up the fi eld. S emotionally absent psy- to show what shouldn’t be done. “I hear that, and I felt that way a chiatrist. Their mother, “Look how they fi xed my hairline, couple of years ago,” Soloway says. by contrast, was a teacher and it looks like they airbrushed on “I do agree that ‘woman’ shouldn’t and enthusiastically involved in the makeup or something,” Soloway says, mean a particular thing, that it can civil rights movement: “Faith and I and we all collectively recoil. Soloway mean anything. But the words man defi nitely grew up just knowing that produces a photo of Pedro Almodóvar, and woman, male and female, they trying to make something happen saying they want to look like him describe who we used to be. You is your antidepressant for getting instead. know, there are a lot of trans men through the day – I have to change Kathryn Hahn “You should wear this blazer,” one who menstruate and there are a lot of the world.” When Soloway’s father and Kevin Bacon of the assistants says. trans women who get off ended if the came out as trans in 2012, a lot “made in I love Dick “Do you think? What do you think?” feminist movement is about vagina Soloway asks, turning to me and hats. [The binary] is not going to stand putting on the blazer. Soloway looks in the future.” great and I say so. I don’t doubt that the world would My taxi back to the airport arrives be better with fewer divisions, but and we hug goodbye. As I leave, the reason Soloway gives for wanting Soloway, Sarah and the assistants are all to dissolve the gender binaries is deciding which pair of glasses Soloway so astonishing to me it feels like should wear (“So cute!”). In another era a betrayal. Unfortunately, time is I would have described them as looking pressing and I have to move on, but like a creative female collective. Now, I GETTY; AMAZON PRIME VIDEO; REX/SHUTTERSTOCK PRIME VIDEO; AMAZON GETTY; as soon as I leave the house I send don’t know what the right words would Soloway an email: “Do you see any be. But I will say this: it sure looks like contradiction,” I write, “in that your they’re having fun. work celebrates femaleness but you

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22.05.17 The Guardian 9 Physicist Daniel Faraday (right) in Lost sparked fans’ theories about Faraday cages

1850s American electromagnetic therapy machine inspired by Faraday’s work

here is not much room to Michael Faraday’s pioneering work on aim is to break our gadget addiction build a box the size of a and bring back good old face-to-face T garage in the Royal Insti- electricity made him a 19th-century communication. tution’s lecture theatre. It is fair to say that not every prod- Tiered seating surrounds superstar. Now his signature invention, uct Faraday inspired lives up to its the large central table and leaves little the Faraday cage, is being repurposed manufacturer’s claims. Metal mesh room for much else. It was the same hats, scarves, shirts, socks, ponchos, in January 1836, but Michael Faraday for surveillance-proof bags, wallpaper hoodies, gloves, capes and leggings had no choice. He left his cramped lab and underpants – not to mention are all sold as shields for electromag- in the basement of the building in Lon- netic waves. As happens with clothing don’s Mayfair and set to work. He put plot points in TV shows such as items, they have holes for arms, legs, a wooden frame, 12ft square, on four Better Call Saul. By Ian Sample heads and bodies, where waves can glass supports and added paper walls stream in. “It’s not a new thing, but and wire mesh. He then stepped inside more and more stuff is being devel- and electrifi ed it. oped. My personal opinion is that it Faraday all but lived in the box for doesn’t do a lot,” says Frank de Vocht, two full days. In that time, with electro- Spark of a senior lecturer in epidemiology and meters, candles, and a large brass ball public health research at Bristol Uni- on a white silk thread, he explored the versity. “There will be a lot of leakage nature of charge. What he discovered because it’s not a Faraday cage.” transformed how scientists viewed genius The market for the clothing has electricity. But the cage itself was simply grown with recognition of electro- a means to an end, a way to insulate magnetic hypersensitivity, or to experiments from the outside world. It unroll its offi cial name, idiopathic hardly screamed applications. Standing environmental intolerance attributed on the spot where the box was built, to electromagnetic fi elds ( IEI-EMF ). Frank James, the RI’s historian, gives the Those aff ected believe that ubiquitous simple reason: “What was there to pro- electromagnetic (EM) waves are to tect against electrical charge in 1836?” blame for what can be genuinely Things have, as you would hope in awful symptoms. But studies point nearly two centuries, changed. Today to another cause: placebo’s evil twin, more than half a million sites found nocebo. Just as positive expectations by Google refer to Faraday cages. can turn a sugar pill into a painkiller, They keep microwaves in microwave so negative ones can provoke real ail- ovens and interfering radio waves out ments. Metal mesh clothing is not the of hospital MRI rooms. Survivalists, antidote. It reinforces the belief that with their knack for being distracted electromagnetic waves cause illness by peripheral threats, share tips on and can make matters worse. enclosures to block electromagnetic In the Netfl ix show Better Call Saul, pulses that follow nuclear explosions. Jimmy McGill’s brother, Chuck, suff ers Companies off er Faraday bags, Fara- from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, day curtains and Faraday wallpaper and turns his home into an improvised that claim to stop mobile phone and Faraday cage, using tinfoil and space wifi radiation, and shield devices blankets. An earlier TV reference came in from electronic snooping. In France, the long-running drama Lost, which fea- entrepreneurs are peddling radio tured a time-travelling physicist called wave-proof underpants. From the Daniel Faraday and inspired fan theories Netherlands comes a Faraday container that the crashed airplane and parts of that holds multiple smartphones. The the island had acted as Faraday cages.

10 The Guardian 22.05.17 Chuck turns his home into an improvised Faraday cage in Better Call Saul

Makers claim that Faraday bags block mobile phone and wifi radiation

In the post-Snowden era , surveillance protection to stop secrets leaking down ment. He turned down a knighthood, fears, or perhaps paranoia, has boosted phone cables, power supplies and the and the presidency of the Royal Soci- another market for Faraday-inspired like. Or for the more cash-strapped, ety twice, perhaps in line with being products. Metal-lined pouches for Scifs can be bought as kits and set up humble before God. But off the back of smartphones are sold alongside cases inside embassies’ rooms. Ideally, you his wildly popular public lectures – it for laptops that block in and outgoing soundproof the Scif and play loud rock was the onset of his 1836 season of signals. Some might even work, though music outside to overwhelm any audio talks that forced him to dismantle his plenty fail to block the full range of bugs outside. fi rst cage after a mere two days – he phone signals, Bluetooth, GPS and wifi . Down in the basement of the Royal still became a celebrity. He was one of They are not much help when you actu- Institution, Faraday’s old lab is now the most photographed, painted and ally need to use the device. Once out part of a museum. On the dark wooden sculpted fi gures of the time, and when in the open and powered up, there are tables and shelves sit generators and he died in 1867, a whopping tombstone endless ways to hack electronic gadgets. sundry gems, from the man’s travel- marked his spot in Highgate cemetery. Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch computer ling microscope and a bottle of Thames Margaret Thatcher, a chemist, once expert, showed what sorts of secrets water (it was so polluted, an appalled called Faraday her hero and his story can leak from computers on the radio Faraday wrote to the Times to warn must have sat neatly with her politics. signals that emanate from active the public), to what was once the most Born to a poor family, he apprenticed components. He measured electro- powerful magnet in Britain, created as a bookbinder, taught himself science magnetic waves given off by circuits by looping wire around a link from a and rose to greatness. In a speech to the inside voting machines and found he ship’s anchor chain. Royal Society, Thatcher declared: “The could tell from 25 metres away when value of his work must be higher than someone had voted. Worse, or perhaps araday’s work on electricity the capitalisation of all the shares on better if you have a criminal mind, he paved the way for elec- the Stock Exchange!” She borrowed his could sometimes distinguish votes F tric motors, transformers bust from the RI and anyone visiting for diff erent candidates, because the and dynamos, which are 10 Downing Street from 1982 to 1996 refresh rate of the machine’s touch- still with us in anything would have passed Faraday in the hall. screen dropped when it had to display that’s electrical. But his true legacy is She wasn’t the only one to gush. Fara- accented and other modifi ed letters. more impressive still. There can’t be day’s story was hopelessly romant icised. When Gonggrijp sent the waves he many chemists who became success- One author wrote that a fairy stole into picked up to a speaker, he heard a ful while harbouring a deep dislike of his parent’s home in Newington Butts, clear shift in tone when a vote was cast such notions as atoms and matter, but south London, bent over his bed, and for the major Dutch party, Christen in searching for alternatives, Faraday conferred genius on the sleeping infant. Democratisch Appèl. The Netherlands made some seminal breakthroughs. In an early bromance, John Tyndall, dumped the machines. When he stepped out of his electrifi ed who performed pioneering work on the As with clothes that claim to block cage in 1836, Faraday had shown greenhouse eff ect, talked of Faraday’s radio signals, there is plenty of over- that electricity was a force, not some “divine power” and how his “fl ashes claiming around anti-snooping shields imponderable fl uid as many claimed. of wondrous insight and utterances ... for computers and everyday gadgets. By the time he had shown that magnets seem less the product of reasoning than Ross Anderson, professor of computer could aff ect light and non-metallic revelation”. security at Cambridge University, has materials such as glass, he was ready to “In terms of scientifi c research, he been in the game for decades. “It’s introduce the use of the word “fi elds” ‘Brian Cox outstrips all the popular scientists almost all bullshit,” he says. “It’s one for the fi rst time, now a cornerstone we’ve got around the place at the reason you might put your laptop with concept in modern physics. hasn’t made moment,” says James, who admits all it s top secret stuff in a Scif [ Sensi- To Faraday, science was a way to the sorts of that his enthusiasm for the man so HULTON-DEUTSCH; C.ABC INC/EVERETT/REX; BEN LEUNER/AMC C.ABC INC/EVERETT/REX; HULTON-DEUTSCH; tive Compartmented Information explore the wonders of God’s work. But pervaded his home life that his chil- Facility], rather than let the minister his membership of a small Christian discoveries dren thought Faraday was the last day sit with it on a train.” A whole build- sect called the Sandemanians , set up Faraday of the working week. “To be blunt,” he ing can be turned into a Scif, which is in opposition to the state church, kept adds, “ Brian Cox hasn’t made the sorts

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS a souped-up Faraday cage with extra him at a distance from the establish- made’ of discoveries Faraday made.”

22.05.17 The Guardian 11 Health

inda Buonanno had suff ered this can aff ect their dopamine levels. 15 years of intense cramps, So if ethically given placebos can L bloating, diarrhoea and pain work, surely doctors should be prescrib- she describes as “worse than ing them? “I’m not advocating doctors labour”. She was willing to handing them out like Smarties,” says try anything to get relief from her irri- Howick, whose book Doctor You, about table bowel syndrome (IBS) and leapt overmedicalisation and the body’s self- at the chance to take part in a trial of an healing capabilities, will be published experimental new therapy. Her hope later this year. “I do think, however, that turned to disappointment, however, this research is telling us we should start when the researcher handed her a bottle to recognise the benefi ts of doctors be- of capsules he described as placebos ing realistically positive when they talk containing no active ingredients. to patients.” Nonetheless, she took the pills twice Kaptchuk is more enthusiastic about daily. Four days later, her symptoms all wider open-label placebo use, despite but vanished. “I know it sounds crazy,” antipathy among doctors. “If enough of says Buonanno, of Methuen, Massachu- these studies have positive results in setts. “I felt fantastic. I knew they were diff erent conditions, I hope we can just sugar pills, but I was able to go out convince the medical community that dancing and see my friends again.” there’s something useful here.” Placebos have a reputation problem. It That might be more likely once more is widely believed they are only eff ective work has been done to explain how when those taking them are deceived open-label placebos work. One hypoth- into thinking they are taking real drugs. esis is that patients who have previously As such, prescribing dummy or fake got better after being treated by trusted treatments is unethical. Yet in Buonan- doctors might experience subconscious no’s case there was no deception. And boosts to levels of endorphins and she is not alone. A review of fi ve studies, ‘They were just neurotransmitters, thereby improving involving 260 patients, published last their symptoms. This is the conditioning month found that “open-label” placebos eff ect, made famous by the Russian – those that patients know contain no sugar pills but I psychologist Ivan Pavlov, who trained active medication – can improve symp- dogs to salivate when they heard a toms in a range of conditions. This body buzzer they associated with being fed, of evidence raises a number of questions. felt fantastic’ even when no food was presented. How do open-label placebos work? Open-label placebos contain no active Another possibility is that patients Which conditions do they work for? might be told that placebos have worked And should doctors prescribe them? drugs. But can they still play a useful before for people with their conditions, Dr Jeremy Howick fi rst began asking leading to a conscious expectation of about placebos when a herbal doctor medical role? By Nic Fleming improvements, resulting in chemical suggested he drink ginger tea to combat releases that relieve their symptoms. cat allergy symptoms. He was highly Both of these probably play a role, sceptical, but three days later his runny yet Kaptchuk says neither can fully noses, sneezing and insomnia stopped. explain the experiences of participants Twenty years later, Howick is a clinical in his IBS study, most of whom had epidemiologist at the University of Ox- been through multiple failed treat- ford. Last month, his group published ments . He thinks a relatively recent a review of previous research that has theory called embodied cognition is compared the eff ects of giving patients closer to the mark. This suggests that open-label placebos with no treatment. Howick acknowledges that a limita- the possibility of improvement can The fi rst was led by Professor Ted tion of these trials is that participants trigger subconscious signals to pass Kaptchuk , of Harvard Medical School, knew whether they were getting place- between diff erent parts of the body, who gave 80 IBS patients, including bos or not being treated. Yet other resulting in chemical releases that Buonanno either no treatment or open- research has demonstrated placebos alleviate symptoms. label placebo pills. He found those who trigger real physiological changes. They Buonanno, meanwhile, has some took placebos for three weeks experi- are known to increase the circulation thoughts on the potential mechanisms enced greater improvements in symp- of endorphins, the body’s own natural of open-label placebos, but is more toms, including less severe pain. Sadly painkillers, and of dopamine, a neuro- interested in the fact that they have for Buonanno, when the study ended transmitter associated both with pleas- worked for her. Since late last year, she was unable to obtain further eff ective urable activities and perceptions of pain. Kaptchuk and his gastroenterologist placebos and her symptoms returned. Placebos appear to work only in ‘I know it colleague Anthony Lembo have been In another of the studies in Howick’s certain circumstances. Research suggests sounds prescribing them to her as a patient. review, chronic lower back pain patients they can be eff ective when the brain and “I feel perfect,” she says. “It’s like I was openly given dummy pills to add to perception can help modulate symptoms crazy. They never sick. I think it’s something to do their existing treatments reported an such as pain, fatigue and itch. Dummy were just with having confi dence in my doctors, average 30% pain reduction. In the three pills also vary in their eff ectiveness in the way they tell me it’s going to work, other review studies, people given open- according to genetics. A 2012 study found sugar pills having hope and really wanting some- label pills reported reduced symptoms IBS patients diff er in their sensitivity to but I felt thing to work. I don’t really understand for depression, lower back pain, and placebos based on the variants of a gene it. But what I do know is that, after attention defi cit hyperactivity disorder . called COMT they had, probably because fantastic’ 23 years, I’ve got my life back.”

12 The Guardian 22.05.17 Dr Dillner’s dilemma Should I stop using cotton buds to clean my ears? Sexual Healing Pamela Stephenson Connolly

Who doesn’t enjoy sticking a cotton bud in lated wax, for instance. But cotton My wife and I are trying to put our life their ear? To twist gently, pull it out and buds will still only make things worse. back together after she had a short, examine the white tip turned to yellow? Medical students are taught not to put WRITE TO US albeit thankfully sexless, aff air. We Q-tips were part of many childhoods. anything smaller than your elbow into are working our way through the The Q-tips website has users sharing how your ear, but a study of 141 health pro- Send us your own issues with a counsellor, but I am they use buds to clean not only ears fessionals found that more than 90 % problem for struggling with sexual attraction. but toilet cisterns and pistols. Which is stuck cotton buds, matchsticks and even Sexual Healing, Until the discovery, I had found my by emailing just as well, as guidelines released last safety pins in their ears to clean them. wife more beautiful every day. But private.lives@ week by the American Academy of About one in 10 injured their ears, cut- theguardian.com I no longer fancy her in the same way. Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery ting the ear canal or perforating the ear- or writing to Will this pass? Foundation, state that cotton buds drum. Even more dangerous is ear can- Private Lives, The should not be used for cleaning ears. dling; putting a hollow candle into the Guardian, Kings The discovery of your wife’s other ear that is burning at one end risks seri- Place, 90 York Way, relationship has destroyed not only The solution ous injuries such as hearing loss, ear London N1 9GU your positive sense of coupledom with Buds don’t remove wax so much as push canal burns and hair fi res. Don’t do it. her, but also your somewhat ideali sed it down the ear canal so that it impacts If you are unlucky enough to have notion of her. The therapeutic work on the ear drum. And there is no need wax blocking your ear then check the you are doing is essential to coming to remove wax anyway – it protects our diagnosis at your doctors. You will need to terms with this loss, and also to ears from infection and damage, has eardrops to soften the wax. Studies show moving forward into a realistic view of antibacterial properties, and traps dust that both the water- and oil-based ones who she really is, and understanding and dirt in the ear canal, thereby stop- work – saline is less likely than oil to your own response. ping it from reaching the more delicate irritate the ear. If the wax won’t shift, you I do not suggest that this will be an eardrum. This self-cleansing includes a may need irrigation or a trained person easy process, and you are already conveyor belt mechanism by which old to remove it with an instrument. As for experiencing the longing and pain that wax is shunted out of the ear canal to your ear buds, stick to the manufacturers’ accompanies such drastic and sudden the opening of the ear by the movement suggested arts and crafts uses. shifts in a person’s conceptuali sation of the jaw through eating or talking . The of love. But that pain usually leads to old, dry wax fl akes off or gets washed growth and important discoveries. True off in the shower. Wax is made in the intimacy involves seeing your partner outer third of the ear canal, so when it for who she truly is, so perhaps a less is seen piled up against the eardrum it idealistic view of her will improve is often because we have shoved it things between you. down there ourselves. The bottom line Allow yourself to be vulnerable in is that most ears do not need to be her presence, and try to express your cleaned, except on the outside. true feelings, no matter how diffi cult it Impacted wax can cause earache, is. It is also important to recognise your a sense of the ear having a plug in it, role in helping to create a fragile hearing loss or ringing in the ears. entente in the fi rst place. Be kind to However, one in 20 adults do make both of you, do the work and learn. more wax and or can’t get rid of it; Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based hearing-aid users often have accumu- psychotherapist specialising in sexual disorders GETTY IMAGES PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH 22.05.17 The Guardian 13 Theatres London

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Daily archive extracts from Doonesbury are on the back page of G2 A problem shared I don’t want to be an expat any more, but my husband has to stay for work

I am a long-term expat wife, and have lived in Talk to him about the options the Middle East for more than 10 years. Expat You need to talk honestly to your husband and life is glamorous at fi rst, but it soon becomes see what options are available to you both. normal. I am in my early 60s, and feel I have Could he get a job in or nearer to the UK? Does given up too much already. I want to go home he work for a multinational and could he get to the UK, but my husband has four more years a transfer? Is there any possibility he could of working life. He isn’t a workaholic and would take early retirement? Do you have friends or prefer to work less, but it’s not really possible, relatives you could stay with in the UK for part for fi nancial reasons. However, I feel I will be of the year, so as to start re-establishing a life over the hill in terms of my age, and my job here? If the love is still there, your husband prospects, if I delay returning by four years; should react sympathetically to your unhappi- I would like to work, whether it’s paid or ness, and within the limits of what fi nances and voluntary work. What do I do? Do I stick it other practicalities permit I would hope that out, or tell him I want to start my life again? working together you could fi nd some creative I don’t want to be without him, and the love compromise that suits both of you. But to do is still there, but the thought of four more that you need to talk about it. years is killing me. JonathanWest Use the time to prepare for your return Do what you can where you are If you’re in your early 60s, fi nding paid work is The upside of working as a volunteer is that you going to be tough, and another four years isn’t meet the nicest of people. Make every day count going to make much diff erence, while, with and get a new notebook – today – to make a plan volunteering, you will have no problem fi nding of all the things you can do where you are that something, now or in four years. What about will add value and interest to your life. Schools preparing for your return to the UK, spending a always need people to read with the children, all few weeks/months at a time here to reconnect countries have charities and women’s groups, with family and friends or meeting new people, or perhaps you have a skill you can share with so you are starting to build a life to come back others . The internet gives you many options to when your husband retires? to connect, learn and expand your world. lewislewis lashwoe This is a very common issue for expats In expat circles, it’s very common to know Next week After losing my marketing couples who are preparing for retirement. I’VE BEEN REJECTED job last September, I have Often the partner with the job will stay in post FOR SO MANY JOBS lost the moti vation to keep THAT I’VE LOST and rent a small apartment, and the other part- MY CONFIDENCE applying for other jobs. ner will relocate back to Britain and set about I stopped counting how re-establishing themselves. In the meantime, many interviews I had done when I hit double there are a few years of commuting. Then, when fi gures. I have a part-time job and write, so am retirement comes, everything has been shipped kept fairly busy, which helps to keep my mind back home, you say adios to your colleagues, off the fact that I haven’t seriously applied for hand in your badge, and jump on the plane. any jobs for a month now. I so desperately clogexpat wanted the last job I interviewed for and was gutted not to get it. I feel stuck in the “can’t get Are you sure what you miss is real? a job because I have no experience, can’t get An analysis of exactly what it is you pine for in experience because I can’t get a job” trap. Apply- the UK might help to soothe the pain. As an ing, researching a company and travelling to emigrant, I fi nd that the UK I sometimes crave interviews, all to repeatedly come to nothing, is more akin to a chocolate box than reality: oak has been depressing. I now can’t bring myself trees and mown grass; Christmas windows on to apply for anything because I have lost con- a frosty night; replays of student evenings in fi dence. Common sense tells me this situation long-closed pubs with friends who are now on won’t fi x anything, but I don’t know what to do . the babysitter clock. It’s never about the tube Any answers? Be an agony aunt or tell us your station at 7.30 on a drizzly Monday morning, dilemma. To give advice or send us your problem for or waiting fi ve hours for the BT Openreach Private Lives, email: [email protected] engineer to show up. or write to Private Lives, The Guardian, Kings Place, jamesmont 90 York Way, London N1 9GU

22.05.17 The Guardian 15 Arts

From Miller’s Crossing to Fifty Shades of Grey, Marcia Gay Harden has always played hard-boiled women, and her UK stage debut is no exception. She talks to Claire Armitstead about monstrous roles, washed-up stars – and her censured nipple clamp tweets Diamond dame

arcia Gay Harden ‘I’ve been having bility in ageing and to think one is going is a fortnight into nightmares’ … to bypass the eff ects is immature and M rehearsals and having clockwise from shallow. I believe he’s writing about diffi culty sleeping . It’s main, Marcia loss, and that’s a more profound thing. not that she’s anxious Gay Harden; in The greatest tragedy of humanity is our about remembering her lines, but Miller’s Crossing; awareness of our own mortality, and because they are so troubling. The with Ed Harris ageing is the clock ticking.” She cites latest in a long line of leading American in Pollock Del Lago’s lament: “I’ve been accused actors to sign up for meaty roles on of having a death wish, but I think it’s the British stage, she is taking time out life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, from a busy fi lm and TV schedule to on any terms whatsoever.” do battle with a character she doesn’t The trap, she believes, is to play yet love, in a play that she sometimes Del Lago as an out-and-out monster, wants “to tear apart with my nails”. though she often appears to be one, Her UK stage debut is in Tennessee and comes from a line of mid-20th Williams ’s Sweet Bird of Youth, and century monsters created for the the character is a ravaged Hollywood stage by writers such as Williams and star holed up with a disgraced gigolo Edward Albee. “I was thinking: in order in a small-town hotel, after fl eeing the to be a strong woman, did you have to fallout from her comeback movie. Both be a monster at that time?” are addicts who drown their misery in Strong women have been a feature drugs and liquor. “It’s so dark,” says of Harden’s career, from Robin Wil- Harden. “The self-degradation that liams’s fi ancee in Flubber (1997) to both of them are going through will the tempestuous Lee Krasner, wife of wake me up in a nightmare.” artist Jackson Pollock, a role that won One obvious theme is the ruina- her a best supporting actress Oscar in tion of age. “The screen’s a very clear 2001. Most recently, she reaffi rmed mirror,” says her character Alexandra that strength in the CBS hospital series Del Lago . “There’s a thing called a close- Code Black , and in the Fifty Shades sadist at the centre of EL James’s novel up. The camera advances and you stand of Grey fi lms, where she appears as and the movie franchise. Harden still and your head, your face, is caught Christian Grey’s adoptive mother. carried the persona into her personal in the frame of the picture with a light Dr Grace Trevelyan Grey is the only Twitter stream, where she cracked blazing on it and all your terrible history person unafraid of the squillionaire jokes about mistaking a nipple clamp screams at you while you smile.” for a brooch and thanked her son for In the 1959 premiere, Del Lago was leaving a bracelet under the Christmas played by Geraldine Page, who was tree (pictured, a string of anal beads). not yet 40 (and only a year older than She was amused when her tweets Paul Newman, who partnered her as were “shut down” by the studio. “I the much younger Chance). Harden is ended up getting in a wee bit of trouble 57 and performing, in Jonathan Kent’s for it because they didn’t want to play Chichester festival theatre production, up the sexual nature – but come on opposite her 35-year-old compatriot guys, it’s a love story with handcuff s.” Brian J Smith. She accepted the role because she While conceding that “the issue is was curious about being part of an of course still pertinent: in Hollywood, “event” movie. She says: “I’ve never where are the roles for older women?”, been at the ‘top top’, where we’re Harden is adamant that the play has to talking millions of dollars and people be more than a whinge about wrinkles screaming at you in the street.” (It’s and thinning hair. “There is an inevita- what Alexandra Del Lago describes in

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and it’s not about bouncing around in the sack and proving their sexuality, but suddenly they’re alone and the question is glaring: will they ever have sex again? I hope it helped them.” Harden was divorced fi ve years ago from the father of her three children, props master turned documentary director Thaddeus Scheel, whom she married after a whirlwind romance on the set of her 1996 fi lm The Spitfi re Grill. Bemusingly, her brother and her complains constantly of memory father are also called Thaddeus. Her lapses, raising the question: are these father was an offi cer in the US Navy, simply the result of alcoholic blackouts which meant that she had an itinerant or do they hint at dementia? childhood, from Germany to Japan. Harden became a campaigner for In her Oscars acceptance speech for Alzheimer’s research after her own Pollock, she paid tribute to “Dad for mother was diagnosed with the dis- teaching me how to soldier through ease eight year ago. Her eyes fi ll with tough situations and Mum for helping tears as she talks about the decision me to do it gracefully”. to go public about a condition that she What sort of tough situation was she knows is still deeply stigmatised. “I’m imagining? Well, for a start an actor’s life aware that other people are bravely is “300 rejections to every job you get speaking up about it, but with my mum – and some of them you don’t even see I’m braving it for her. It’s a choice made because your agent deals with them”. in the interest of change, because After graduating in theatre at Texas Alzheimer’s is a family disease.” University, followed by an MFA in act- She is wary of overtly imposing such ing from New York ’s Tisch School of an interpretation on a period play. the Arts, she spent her 20s eking out a “Anyway, who hasn’t blacked out and living by waitressing between theatre woken up the next morning not know- and television jobs. It wasn’t until she ing what they’ve done? I certainly had turned 30 that she was spotted have.” But she points out that part of by the Coen brothers, who cast her as the joy of theatre is that it exists in the Gabriel Byrne’s lover in the cult 1990 moment at which it is performed, so gangster movie Miller’s Crossing. even if dementia wasn’t in Williams’s Three years and four fi lms later, she mind, the possibility is available to returned to the theatre for the New audiences today. York premiere of Angels in America, To underscore this point she makes Tony Kushner’s epic 1980s Aids drama. a surprising detour into her admiration So while her fi lm career was carry- for JK Rowling. She delights in retweet- ing her off into the Hollywood strato- ing Rowling’s rants against Donald sphere, her theatre work planted her Trump, but explains a more personal back squarely in the heart of a com- debt too. “When I was going through munity dealing with very immediate my divorce, my elder daughter was horrors. “Angels,” she says, “is a mis- completely immersed in Harry Potter,” sion play which came at just the exact she says. Her daughter Eulala – who right time. Boys would stop me in West made her fi lm debut aged 18 months Sweet Bird as “the top of the beanstalk, ‘Who hasn’t Village where I lived and say, ‘I took in Pollock but has since opted for a the country of the fl esh-hungry, blood- my parents to see it last night and then life behind the camera – was reading thirsty ogre”.) blacked out I told them I was dying.’ The pain of the whole series for the third time. “Do I want to live there?” says and woken dying and the hope of living with this “I wanted to fi nd out what it was all Harden. “No! I have children so I disease, was so powerful. It was also about, so I entered it with her. My son don’t want to be on top because I’d be up the next about the hypocrisy of the time and and younger daughter wanted to be in travelling all the time, in the gym 24/7, morning not the abandonment of the government.” that world with us, so I read it out loud constantly having facial work. So you Besides mischief, Harden uses social and it brought the four of us together. give up certain things.” knowing media to channel her political outrage JK Rowling’s gift to me and to my Tongue-in-cheek though she is at the more recent hypocrisies of Ameri- kids was this world where we bonded about Fifty Shades she defends its what they can politics, which brings us back to deeply into a tight little unit when the message. “I like what it was doing for have done?’ Sweet Bird of Youth. “The underbelly rest of our world seemed so messy.” women thinking about their sexuality. of the play is race, hypocrisy, violence,” Once again she returns to Alexandra It was a little bit of an awakening for she says. “The reason I’m doing it is Del Lago, who turns out not be as women of my own age. It allowed them that it does feel like ignorance is being washed up as she thinks she is. “She’s to be a bit randy and bawdy.” empowered today. There’s a belligerent an artist – and a writer, an actor, an SARAH LEE FOR THE GUARDIAN; SARAH LEE FOR THE GUARDIAN; As such, it fed into her own mission hypocrisy in the government, and artist never knows what gift they are to speak out for “an entire popula- sexual hypocrisy as well.” giving to other people.” tion of women in their 50s who are But there is another, more intangible dumped. They’re typically past their dimension to the play, which shadows Sweet Bird of Youth is at Chichester Festival theatre, 2-24 June PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS SPORTSPHOTO/ALLSTAR sexual prime. They’ve had children her personal experience. Del Lago

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etfl ix’s new feature fi lm is cinemas. Since French law mandates a a big deal in many ways . 36-month window between theatrical Netfl ix has already seized prime- N Called War Machine, it release and streaming date, this eff ec- time TV territory. Now it’s got combines the star power tively bars Netfl ix from the competi- of Brad Pitt and the indie tion. The Cannes screening of Okja , a cinema in its crosshairs – with a credibility of David Michôd, the direc- much lower-profi le Netfl ix fi lm starring tor of Animal Kingdom. It boasts big Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal , had big-budget war movie starring themes: the absurdity of war and the to be stopped after it was booed in its ambition of men . Based on The Opera- fi rst few minutes. Pedro Almodóvar is Brad Pitt. Ellen E Jones reports tors, a book about controversial US on the side of the festival. Will Smith army general Stanley McChrystal , the – who stars in Bright, another Netfl ix fi lm takes place on a big scale, across fi lm due in December – has spoken out Afghanistan and along the corridors in support of the young upstart. Expect of power in DC. An investment in the other fi gures to begin taking sides soon. range of $60m also makes it Netfl ix’s War Machine will be given a lim- biggest-budget feature to date. Most ited, Oscar-qualifying theatrical of all, though, War Machine is big on release in the US and UK, but the big Let battle a four-star general’s retinue. His body expectation: this is the fi lm that could premiere will take place this week on commence … language is too unassuming, his conver- change the industry for ever. the laptops and in the living rooms of Brad Pitt in sation too considered and his haircut “We knew early on that we were Netfl ix’s 100m-strong subscriber base. War Machine; — shoulder-length and in a ponytail — making the kind of movie that doesn’t The fi lm’s commercial success will be opposite, Tilda defi nitely non-regulation. really get made by the studios any measured not by its box-offi ce takings, Swinton in Still, there are some unavoidable more,” says Michôd. That “we” refers but by new subscriber numbers. As Netfl ix’s Okja, parallels between army generals and to Michôd, his star Pitt, and the team attack plans go, it’s more stealth domi- which was fi lm directors. “I can never claim to at Plan B, Pitt’s production company. nance than shock and awe. booed at Cannes; be in a position where I’m having to In 2015, they signed over distribution Sydney-born Michôd is the movie director make decisions with life and death rights to Netfl ix in exchange for, says journalist turned fi lm-maker who is David Michôd consequences,” says Michôd. “But I do Michôd , “the ability to make fi lms charged with delivering it. Michôd need to be able to wrangle a gigantic that are unusual and risky with the brought Ben Mendel sohn to interna- machine.” There is one key diff erence, resources to do it properly”. tional attention in Animal Kingdom , though, between waging wars and mak- Not every section of the fi lm indus- then artfully scruff ed up teen dream ing movies. While the US military that try has been as receptive. In particular, Robert Pattinson for 2014’s The Rover. War Machine depicts seems in capable the Cannes fi lm festival is insisting While he may be leading the assault of changing course once set, the fi lm that , as of next year, all Palme d’Or on traditional cinema, Michôd doesn’t industry has become anxiously reactive contenders must be released in French look at all like a man who’d fi t in with to changing viewer habits. These

18 The Guardian 22.05.17 attempts to keep box-offi ce receipts from the TV comedy Atlanta, and Sean profi table by second-guessing audi- Penn’s son Hopper. “There’s something ence tastes have caused problems for very fun about working with actors of fi lm-makers . that age. They’re not totally green, but “I went to fi lm school right in the they’re still hungry. There’s still some- middle of that explosion of indie thing exciting about the fact they’re cinema that came out of the 90s,” getting to do it at all.” Perhaps, being says Michôd. “For a long period, there three feature fi lms in, Michôd can iden- was a whole bunch of guys – Paul tify? “I just want to make movies. The Thomas Anderson , David O Russell , fear is always that someone’s gonna tell Wes Anderson , Spike Jonze – who were you that you can’t do it any more.” getting to make movies with budgets War Machine may be airing on the inside the studio system, but movies small screen but they’ve still gone to that were so idiosyncratic. When Ani- the trouble of giving it a big-screen mal Kingdom was released [in 2010], fi nish. “We did a full sound mix and it got me a whole load of attention, everything ,” says Michôd. “It’s kind of but those opportunities didn’t seem to That makes it the test case, a pressure ‘There was magnifi cent. I love the possibility of exist any more.” Michôd seems to be taking in his stride. turning the movie into an event.” For So, it’s not just that Netfl ix is luring Sort of. “Put it this way, it didn’t feel no point the director, this attention to detail is fi lm-makers with its seductive combi- any harder than making my short fi lms in Brad slowly evolving into a new defi nition nation of deep pockets and a free rein – but the shorts felt terrifying.” of fi lm for television. “I spent almost – it’s that, if Netfl ix wasn’t stepping in, You might assume that any fi lm with trying a year cutting this . It’s that fi ne chisel- these fi lms wouldn’t get made at all. In Pitt attached would be bankable under to keep a ling you can do when you have the February, it was announced that Mar- any circumstance, but Michôd suggests resources to properly fi nish something tin Scorsese’s next fi lm , The Irishman, that his central performance as General leash on it’ that’s two hours long .” would be distributed by Netfl ix. The Glen McMahon (a fi ctionalised take Undoubtedly, a huge amount of care, fi lm was set up at Paramount, which on McChrystal) is of a larger-than-life time, talent, not to mention money has released Scorsese’s previous four , but kind that’s now considered too big for been poured into War Machine. But will the Hollywood studio reportedly got the big screen. “We had conversations the audience really be able to appreci- cold feet when the director’s latest,test, aaboutbout wherewhere to pitch the character and ate the auteur’s artistry on such a small Silence, bombed, grossing just $7m knewknew quitequite quickly that there was no canvas? And does Michôd not feel even against a $40m budget. ppointoint in BBrad trying to keep a leash a sliver of cinephile regret about the The Irishman is not a 160-minutenute onon it. FoForr us, it was about letting fact that the vast majority of War Ma- meditation on the suff ering of 17th-17th- thethe moviemovi be mental.” chine’s audience will never see it on a century missionaries. It’s a mobb ActorsActo love that kind of crea- big screen? “I don’t mind at all because thriller starring Robert De Niro, Al tivetive environment and the fi lm people’s televisions are so great these Pacino and Joe Pesci, but it still featuresfea enjoyably left-fi eld days. I know it’s almost heretical for falls in to the category Michôd performancespe from Ben a director to say they don’t care.” And describes as “any fi lm of scale KingsleyKi as Afghan presi- don’t you? “If I’m completely honest, that isn’t based on a pre-exist- dentde Hamid Karzai and Tilda it’s totally refl ective of how I watch ing franchise”. The Irishman SwintonSw as an awkward movies these days. I like watching now sits on Netfl ix’s increasinglyly GermanGe offi cial, as well as movies at home.” impressive feature slate, but an entiree battalion of upcom- War Machine was the fi rst deal ing ttalent, including Britain’s War Machine streams on Netflix from 26 May signed and the fi rst to be released.ed. Will PoulterP , Lakeith Stanfi eld FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/NETFLIX; GETTY PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

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surprised I wasn’t delighted to be told A graphic they couldn’t fi nd anything wrong. But I felt terrible. There was a big part of me that would have preferred it if they had, memoir because at least they might have been able to do something about it.” One revealing incident sees him with balls being referred for a mental health assessment. Afterwards, he is accused From his back to his stomach of being a “bloody liar” by his GP. “I to his testicles, Robert Wells honestly think she assumed I was has been in pain for decades pretending to be ill to get benefi ts,” he says. The doctor then presents – but no one in the NHS him with the psychiatrist’s fi ndings: believed him. He tells “Although Robert is an extremely anxious young man, I believe that Graham Kibble-White further psychiatric treatment would how he turned it all into a only encourage him in the belief that hilarious graphic novel he is ill.” Wells elaborates: “I remember tell- ing health professionals, ‘This is stop- ping me going out.’ And the doctors would say, ‘This is stopping you going ight now, life isn’t so bad The book follows Wells, who is from Excruciating … out?!’ As if it was unbelievable – that for Robert Wells. “I get Ashford in Kent, through a series of en- scenes from a little thing like testicle pain could R the odd uncomfortable counters with the NHS, as doctors mis- Back, Sack & aff ect you so badly. I certainly recall day,” says the 48-year-old diagnose his ailments (he’s erroneously Crack (& Brain) saying to a GP, ‘I’ve become very agora- cartoonist. “But it’s not a operated on for a twisted testicle in phobic’, and them replying, ‘Well, you major issue. You won’t catch me riding 1997), express scepticism about his made it here all right today.’” a bike, though.” claims, or simply fail to take him Wells is admirably frank in depict- As recounted in his commend- seriously. “I’m quite oversensitive that ing himself in an array of demeaning, ably – almost excruciatingly – honest everyone will now assume I’m anti- trousers-down situations. He tries to new graphic novel, Wells has been NHS,” he says. “But I’m not. I think, in alleviat e stomach pain through alco- experiencing chronic health problems part, I just got unlucky. My feeling is hol, spends eight years only eating raw since 1990, most notably a persistently that I saw a couple of bad doctors early carrots for breakfast, and masturbates upset stomach and a perennially ach- on, and their negative notes followed in a bid to ease tightness in his groin. ing right testicle. Which partly explains me to every other appointment.” Nonetheless, he says: “I am embar- why his book is called Back, Sack & It’s a dispiriting journey, as Wells’s rassed about this stuff , particularly Crack (& Brain). If this sounds funny, hope for a proper diagnosis and treat- the bowel problems, for some reason. he’s OK with that. “The main reason I ment is gradually ground away. “That’s But what I wanted to say was, ‘I don’t wanted to do the book was because I one of the points of the book. Most see why I should be.’ Why should I be could see quite a lot of opportunities people seem to go through life thinking embarrassed for being ill?” for humour .” that, unless it’s something terminal, He tried Wells doesn’t off er any resolution in These embarrassing ailments have their doctor can sort it out. But that’s terms of what has actually been wrong had a debilitating impact, though. not the case , is it?” eating raw all these years. “It’s, ‘I don’t know what Decades of constant pain, anxiet y about There’s much more to his story than carrots for the fuck happened, don’t ask me why getting “caught short” in public and just “sore balls”, he says. “I think there I ate raw carrots.’ But it has been quite indiff erent – sometimes hostile – medi- are a lot of people who are ill and not breakfast cathartic, writing and drawing it.” cal professionals have all contributed living their lives in full because of it. But – for eight At the moment, the worst of his to a deterioration in his mental health. they’re not really considered ill by the ailments have gone into abeyance – for Even though recent years have seen state. Many of the doctors I saw were years no apparent reason. “I can live with a drop in his physical suff ering, Wells not knowing, although there’s a part continues to take antidepressants. of me that’s hoping someone will now At the height of his troubles, he get in touch and say, ‘This is what also developed agoraphobia and panic you’ve got.’” attacks. “I wouldn’t go into shops that There’s also the dream that Back, had sliding doors,” he says, “in case Sack & Crack (& Brain) will rescue they got stuck and I couldn’t get out him from the limbo of not feeling again. It was that bad. I still don’t go well enough to work, while not be- out on my own all that often.” ing defi nably ill according to social Then there’s the intermittent back services. “Hopefully, I’ll become a pain, which has prevented him from multi-millionaire off the sales. If the holding down a regular job for years. only way I can get out of this mess is When he began his graphic novel by becoming the public face of achy in 2014, he was claiming incapacity balls and irritable bowel syndrome, I’m WELLS ROBERT benefi t, but that was stopped follow- prepared to sink to that level.” ing an Atos assessment. “My health problems have held me back in life a Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain) is published by Little, Brown on 29 June lot,” he says. “ They still do.” PHOTOGRAPHS

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man sits in court, accused Junior barrister Lucy Organ and lead of murder. Simon Davis, defence barrister John Ryder QC A a university lecturer, strangled his estranged and not just in the courtroom, but in wife in the family home, the barristers’ offi ces and in the jury the prosecution maintains. They – deliberation room, too. the lead prosecutor, Max Hill QC, The jurors – are real as well – and his team – are real. As are the lead randomly selected we are told. I would defence barrister, John Ryder QC, and like to have been told a little more his lot. The courtroom is a real one about the jury selection process. (albeit decommissioned), in Newbury , Obviously, there was no obligation, Berkshire. Likewise the judge, Hon no summons , so these people must be Brian Barker QC. happy to be here, for whatever reason – But the defendant, Davis, is played Last night's TV maybe an interest in the law, perhaps by an actor (Michael Gould). As are the a desire to be on TV. Regardless, they witnesses. And the case is fi ctional: My verdict on The Trial? are switched on and motivated. And a made up case, tried in a real court. it shows. I’m not usually a fan of documentary- A good case, and an utterly I did jury service quite recently and drama hybrids but The Trial: A Murder the experience left me, weirdly, both in the Family (Channel 4), which absorbing docu-drama a little bit appalled but also reassured. started on Sunday and runs daily until But I think we reached the right verdict Thursday, is an intriguing experiment. in the three cases on which I sat. So, it The case is a good one, with loads probably does mostly work. of emotional appeal, twists, another I have faith in this jury. There are a man, possibly another suspect, an few hunches being had, a bit of looking unborn child, now never to be born. It into the defendant’s eyes, for clues. would stand up on its own as a drama. But most are taking it seriously, and Ryder understands the fascination doing it properly, studying the with murder. “It is the absolute end By Sam Wollaston evidence. for someone,” he says. “A completely Already some interesting things unique individual, a unique sensibility have a break now, members of the have come up. Such as the juror who exists no more, and another human jury.” “I think we’ll have have short thinks that one witness, because she being is charged with having done break …” Quite a fan of the break, is a woman, will be have preconcep- that.” aren’t you, Your Honour? tions about a domestic violence crime. Ryder is good value – posh, confi dent, Anyway, between them, they bring And another who thinks that the de- eloquent, how you would expect and legal authenticity, authority and wiggy fendant’s repeated reply of “no com- want a TV QC to be, a slick silk. He does rigour to the story, which is already ment” at his initial police interview im- little to dispel the idea that it is all just a good one. A light is shone on to the plies guilt. a big game for them. “You have to start inner workings of the legal system, That’s what Davis, was worried from the position that you’re a goal or about at the time: that saying “no two down,” he says about defending comment” after “no comment” would in general. make it look as if he did it. But still, Hill, now Britain’s new terror AND ANOTHER that’s what the lawyer advised. Maybe THING watchdog incidentally, which doesn’t they can learn something from surprise me, is quieter but seems to be He is posh, this, too. dangerously eff ective; you wouldn’t So pleased to find Anyway, it is all utterly absorbing, eloquent out that Spotify has

JOSS BARRATT/CHANNEL 4 BARRATT/CHANNEL JOSS want him trying to prove your guilt. and we are still a long way off the big the Big Little Lies As for Judge Barker, well, he hasn’t – just how soundtrack. It helps deliberation in the jury room. I’ve no said or done much yet, except to you want a to fill the void left idea what the verdict will be, but suggest breaks. “Let’s break for lunch!” by the show, and it is I think they will get it right. I know

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