12A XXX factor Wednesday 06.06.12 Plan for the apocalypse Hadley Freeman Losing the Class, morality andvoting Louis Theroux Jonathan Haidt on thepornindustry inmeltdown Ten essential updates Ten essential Summer style Mads Mikkelsen Cinema’s great Dane Portrait of the artist Abi Morgan Shortcuts

Cultural studies at least, in Heston Blumenthal), Waitrose boss Mark Price, for events onstage with a mixture of infl uential political fi gures and example, a seat right behind John elation, bemusement, detachment What they were Nick Clegg. But here they are, Major? In fact, why is Major there and, in the case of Princess Anne, nonetheless, gathered together and not Tony Blair? And why have quiet fury. really saying in for an evening of middle-of-the- most of the black people been It was diffi cult, as it almost the royal box road and occasionally haphazard seated together? Is nearness to always is, to imagine what went jubilee entertainment outside the Queen a simple function of through the Queen’s mind as she Buckingham Palace. rank, or are people also grouped watched performances by Tom For such a historic gathering by type, like elements in the Jones, Cliff Richards and Paul t was not an assemblage it was strange to fi nd so many periodic table? McCartney, but one would like to I widely recognised for its hard-to-identify faces among the Whoever they all are – and the think it was something along the collective devotion to popular high-profi le guests. Who are Buckingham Palace press offi ce lines of: “Don’t any of these music – major royals, minor royals, these people, and how were their is not telling – the Queen’s well- people ever retire?” Norma Major, celebrity chefs (one, seats allocated? What earned wishers appear to be reacting to Tim Dowling Keep smiling, I’ll get This was all the car. Three Michelin What am I doing my idea. stars, and I’m here? They in row 6 with must think I’m Sebastian Coe. I’ve Michael Sheen. wasted my life. Or Tony Blair.

Rocket Man!

I can’t see. What’s happening now?

Why am I still SIR Elton John? hanging on Stay down, Are you sure? to this wet Mum. One would blanket? remember doing I’ve often asked

something myself the same

like that. question. Ê Hula Hooping Mad, mad world Grace Jones did it The Mad Men cast captured throughout her song at in modifi ed Barbie dolls by Shorter the jubilee concert on New York photographer cuts Monday night. Hula Michael Williams of My Life Hooping class spotted in in Plastic. Here’s Michael London E8 last week. Ginsberg, looking good. It’s a thing again!

2 The Guardian 06.06.12 William McElligott’s face graphically demonstrates the eff ects of the sun

Dermatology Pass notes One face, No 3,188 but two sides Sony of a story

t fi rst, it looks like a chief executive of Factor 50, a Age: 66 A Photoshopped demon- support group for people with Appearance: Weary stration of ageing in skin cancer. Nuttall has written to Ah yes, it’s hard work being an all-conquering action. But the image of truck Brendan Barber, general secretary conglomerated behemoth. Hmm. Yes. Or an driver William McElligott is a of the TUC, urging unions to help QUOTE OF THE DAY all-surrendering one. stark reminder of the destructive raise awareness of the risks for That’s a perplexing remark. Can you explain power of the sun. The left-hand workers, including those such as it? I can. You see, Tokyo’s world-famous side of the 66-year-old’s face is meter readers, taxi drivers and Sony corporation, purveyor of Walkmen pitted and sagging after 28 years sales reps who “ don’t perceive and Play Stations to all mankind, is going to of sun exposure through the side themselves to be in any kind of the dogs. window of his lorry. The right- danger ”, she says. Which dogs? Oh, just metaphorical ones. But hand side, shaded by the cab as She has seen severe sun that’s still bad. On Monday, Sony’s share price McElligott delivered milk around damage on the hands of reps – fell below Y1,000 for the first time since 1980, Chicago, is taut and unblemished . exposed to sun through wind- when it launched the Walkman. McElligott didn’t notice the screens, which do not protect Ouch. The company is now worth less than 6% developing asymmetry for 15 years . from UVA rays. So could real ‘Mr Ackerman – of what it was in 2000, when the PlayStation 2 Doctors were shocked, and his images such as that of McElligott Please excuse had just come out. image was published in the New shock people into protecting Tyler … he was Further ouch. Yes, it has been a long with me!’ England Journal of Medicine as a themselves ? “It doesn’t take procession of ouches every day at Sony City. striking example of photoageing . much to imagine one’s own skin Barack Obama signs That sounds like a Japanese workplace- The image demonstrates the in 20 years’ time ,” says Nuttall. off the best truancy bonding exercise. It does, yet in fact it’s danger to workers who might not “ William’s story is one we are note ever for young another metaphor, evoking the company’s regard themselves as at risk from going to see again and again.” Tyler Sullivan, who many setbacks. Sony was the world’s leading the sun, according to Gill Nuttall, Patrick Barkham skipped school to see television maker until 2006, when Samsung the president’s visit overtook it. The Play Station has since been to his father’s factory eclipsed by Nintendo’s Wii. The whole in Minneapolis. Linguistics and “Daddy” in early childhood. I corporation has lost money for the past was about six when I fi rst tried out three years ... Is it still OK to “Mum” and “Dad” – nobody else Oh dear. They must be sniggering into their at school was still using the other sushi down at Panasonic. First, Japanese peo- say ‘Mummy’? and as I had enough bullyable ple don’t just eat sushi. Second, Panasonic isn’t features beyond my control, I had sniggering into anything right now. On the same

DAVID BEBBER DAVID to minimise all those that I could. day, its own share price fell below Y500 for the he general rule is that the After a few half-hearted attempts first time in 37 years. That old rivalry has got T posher you are, the longer to make me return to lisping rather maudlin recently. you go on calling your childhood innocence (“Wrong A bit of British spirit, that’s what they need PHOTOGRAPH parents by their childhood time, wrong place, wrong income to get them through this! That’s what they monickers. So it is only right that bracket,” I pointed out), the new have had. British-born, anyway. Sir Howard Charles should still use “Mummy” names stuck and my younger Stringer, who is now American, has been aged 63 , as he did in his post- sister naturally followed suit. chief executive since 2005, and he has done concert encomium on Monday But when Charles says sterling work. REX FEATURES REX FEATURES night. But there is a school of “Mummy”, it humanises both Oh, sure. I bet everybody’s thrilled. Well, thought that says only “Mama” him and the Queen. It is, after all,l, they don’t hate him, anyway. “Were it not and “Papa” should be used at the harder to revolt against a mother r for the strong leadership of Sir Howard Stringer top of the English class tree, which and son than a monarch and these past seven years, we would have leaves us with the thought that successor. Next time, she shouldd been in a much more difficult position,” says the royal off spring drop into the respond, “Aw, hello Chucky-egg!”” Kazuo Hirai. demotic to address their parents and secure the royals’ future for And he is? The new chief executive. as a hilarious family in-joke. the next 18 generations. Do say: “I’ve got it! Launch the iWalkman!”

COVER ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH COVER Most of us stop using “Mummy” Lucy Mangan Don’t say: “We’ll always have Betamax.”

Flagging it up Bottles canned TV viewing pacts The jubilee’s over but the union Can you imagine a world You know, when you watch bunting is still up. Euro 2012 in which you buy a something, always, with starts in two days. So should the carton of water instead the same person. And then union fl ags stay up for the of a bottle? These one week they sneak- Olympics or get swapped for St Aquapax cartons are watch “your” show without George’s crosses for the football? cropping up in cafes and you. This is wrong; that How is this going to work? shops. Tastes good. goes for boxed sets too.

06.06.12 The Guardian 3

Hadley Freeman After the jubilee, the next major event is – the end of the world! But how best to spend the last six months on earth?

o now that we have ticked off the On the say for certain whether cats and dogs are living diamond jubilee, enjoying traditional together (the true sign of the end of the world, as S pastimes of Albion such as infl icting a upside, you all Ghostbusters fans know) but I do know that bladder infection on Prince Philip and won’t have some dude made a helicopter out of his dead cat watching Grace Jones hula hoop , let us last week and if that’s not straight out of the Book focus our attentions on the next major event of to worry of Revelations, well, I’ll eat my Orion Prophecy. the year. Oh, Olympics Schmolympics – people, about So now that we have scientifi cally established please! I am speaking about the end of the world. that we are, indeed, in an end-of-days scenario and So, in case you haven’t heard already, the world Christmas seeing as we are now offi cially at the halfway point is ending this year: on 21 December, according of our collective last year of existence, it feels like a to something called “The 2012 Prophecy”, as shopping. sensible time to do some forward planning. Short- proposed by various New Age beliefs and books On the term forward planning, mind you. that you could probably fi nd in your local bus How to spend one’s remaining six months shelter with names such as The Orion Prophecy. downside … on earth? Or, to put it another way, how not to On the up side, you won’t have to worry about the spend them? Well, not reading about incidents of Christmas shopping. On the down side, the world is cannibalism and disembowelment seems as good ending. Ah well, swings and roundabouts, eh? a start as any. But what else? Well, after much But you know, I’m a proper journalist. Well, pondering, here is a list of my own end-of-days a journalist. Well, a person, and so I have been resolutions: doing some research of my own into this prophecy. 1. I will not be snarky about the Olympics While you blithe lot spent your weekend watching Look, I’m as excited about the Olympics as the the Gary Barlow do his “Embarassing Dad” dance next American keenster spending the Olympics moves at Buck Palace, I’ve been keeping my ear period in London. And the athletes? Bless ’em, to the apocalyptic ground and what I have found they all seem lovely (except for Dwain Chambers, makes the claim seem, frankly, undeniable. For who, personally, I fi nd a little scary). But the bumpf example, shall we discuss the recent spate of can- around it? Good God! Vernon Kay opening the nibalism and disembowelment cases? (Althoughthough OlympicOlymp Stadium with a concert by Mel C and Hugh spate seems like the wrong collective termm hhereere – “a BBonneville?onnev Visa rubber-stamping itself all over chomp of cannibalism cases”, perhaps.) tthehe eventeve for, as far as I can tell, the sole purpose What’s that? You’d really rather not? Well,, ooff makingmak everyone’s life a bit more irritating? But too bad: in the past fortnight alone, one no! I willw not be snarky. I will not waste the next six man was arrested in Florida while eating montmonths.h Vernon Kay – no! Stop it, Freeman! another chap’s face ; another disemboweleded 2.2. I willwill not get distracted by “shiny objects”. himself and threw his own intestines at OnOn Sunday,Sun Mitt Romney’s senior adviser, Eric onlooking police offi cers; a man in Staten Fehrnstrom, Fehrn dismissed issues such as contra- Island, New York, helped himself to a chunkunk ceptionceptio coverage and abortion access as “shiny of another man’s ear when he changed thee TV issues” issue that are being used to distract voters from channel (to be fair, the other guy did changenge important,impo non-shiny, more manly issues. And the channel from “an oldies music station”n” toto he’she’s right! Although from my perspective, the the deathly dull ESPN so, while I don’t wantant shinyshin issues are when a politico says something to say I’m on the ear-muncher’s side, I cann so palpablyp stupid and everyone gets all upset see where he was coming from); a 21-year-oldr-old andand then it all disappears by the end of the student from Maryland confessed to killingng hhisis week.we So I’m with Fehrnstrom on this one: no fl atmate and eating his and brain; a 229-year-9-year- morem shiny objects. old porn star is the prime suspect in killingng a 3. I will give up my Mantel guilt. 33-year-old man and posting his hand andd footfoot to HilaryHilary Mantel. She’s a good writer, isn’t she? the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa;ttawa; Everybody Everyb and his mother agrees that Wolf Hall and, fi nally, it emerged over the weekendd tthathat last andand BringBri Up the Bodies are amazing and so month fi ve people in Japan paid $250 eachh to eat obviouslyobviou I have been airily pretending to have illustrator Mao Sugiyama’s surgically removedmoved read tthemh for the past few months. But I admit it, penis, served with – and I swear on my remainingmaining I haven’thaven and yes, yes, I do feel guilty, OK? But no six months on earth that I’m not making ththisis uupp – more. IIf I want to spend my last six months re-read- button mushrooms. That Mao Sugiyama mmightight not inging PamelaPam Des Barre’s memoir of life as a groupie, have a penis, but he sure has a sense of humour.umour. I’mI’m WithWit the Band, for the 10,798th time, then, But let’s not be human-centric about this.his. I can’t dammit,dammi I will. ALAMY This week Hadley was spooked when her favourite recent book, The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild, came to life in the news pages: “In The Baroness, a Rothschild woman left her family for an African American

PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH musician; this weekend, Kate Rothschild left her husband for an African American rapper. Spooky, no?”

06.06.12 The Guardian 5 Why sex isn’t selling

It’s 15 years since Louis Theroux turned the TV cameras on to the US porn industry. Now he is revisiting it to see if anything has changed – and he fi nds a business in crisis

n a grand suburban house on a quiet cul-de-sac in Califor- I nia’s San Fernando Valley an act or is having a problem with her moans. Alexa Nicole (her professional name) is playing the role of a Latin beauty in A Love Story, a pornographic fi lm about an author of romance novels suff ering from writer’s block. They are shooting a fantasy sequence in which Alexa wander s the darkened corridors of the house in a white nightie, carrying a large candlestick. She stumble s into the arms of her forbidden lover, Miguel, played by rising star Xander Corvus, clad in leather trousers, frilly blouse and waistcoat. Helpless in the heat of passion, they ma ke love on the chaise longue. But there is a small issue. Alexa’s rapid high-pitched squeals of pleasure aren’t up to the exacting standards of the fi lm’s director. “Less porno,” he sa ys. By way of illustration he off er s a diff erent read – less urgent, more ladylike. “Yes, yes, yes!” Then he announce s his keyword for the day: “Romantico!” A Love Story is a new title by the high-end adult movie studio Wicked Picture. And for the world of “adult”, the emphasis on the moans is a giveaway that it is not a typical sex fi lm. For years the porn industry was dominated by an anarchic anything- goes attitude to sex. Directors competed to see who could stage the more outrageous stunts, pushing the performers to the limit of what their bodies could take. The scenes could be hard to watch, as I discovered for myself when I visited sets for a book I was writing in 2004. The sex acts seemed to owe more to reality shows where people eat live worms and pig vomit than anything conventionally erotic. But some time around 2007, the “business of X” started going into a commercial tailspin. The arrival of free YouTube-style porn sites meant that

6 The Guardian 06.06.12 Porn actor Alexa Nicole, star of a ‘romantic’ fi lm for couples

consumers could download pirated into “quality”. In an uncanny echo of scenes from the vast backlog of old a recent BBC slogan, they are embrac- content for free. The phenomenon ing the idea of “Fewer, Bigger, Better”. of DIY amateur sex – part-timers For some, this means more female- uploading their videos on sites such orientated scenes with less angry sex. as clips4sale – also put a dent in the Hence A Love Story. For others, it professionals’ pay cheques. means parodies – of popular TV shows Suddenly an industry that was and recent blockbusters. a by word for easy money, raking in One of the unlikeliest fi gures in billions by exploiting the anonymity of the new reinvented industry – and a point-and-click purchasing, was fi ght- one-man indicator of how much it has ing for its life. changed – is Rob Zicari, better known Making the problems of “adult” as Rob Black. In the 90s, Black was one even worse was that where consum- of the most notorious provocateurs in ers might feel enough loyalty to, say, porn. He specialised in tastelessness; Radio head to buy their latest release his fi lms were more like grotesque rather than download it illegally, porn exercises in taboo-breaking than any- users don’t have the same feelings thing anyone might conceivably watch about the Dirty Debutantes series. In for sexual pleasure. essence, as with every other media In 1997 I interviewed him in his evolution of the last 30 years, from offi ce in LA and visited him on the set VHS to DVDs to the birth of the inter- of a production entitled Forced Entry, net, porn was once again leading the a fi lm about rape. He was only 23 at the way, only this time into obsolescence. time and I was struck by the strange And as goes the industry, so go the contrast of his being a friendly, intelli- performers. It’s well known that many gent guy – albeit in an over-caff einated of them come into porn looking for way – while making porn fi lms that validation, fl eeing lives of damage and specialised in degrading women. abuse. They then sign up to a lifestyle Six years later, Black’s provocations that infl icts stress and illness, not to caught up with him during George mention embarrassment, on its young Bush’s “war on obscenity” ( the war’s foot soldiers, while off ering nothing in two other casualties were Justin the way of pensions and health insur- Timberlake and Janet Jackson , when ance. Now they fi nd themselves out she exposed her nipple in a dance of work, looking for a , when routine during the Superbowl). the only experience on their resumé is Black and his wife and business having sex for cash. partner Janet Romano (better know On the business side, the porn as Lizzie Borden) did a year each in industry has been desperately trying federal jail for obscenity. Post-prison, to adapt. Partly this has been a simple a chastened Black has put his Sadean case of cutting back massively. In grotesqueries behind him. Now he the early , a typical issue of the directs superhero parodies for a main- industry bible, the monthly Adult stream porn company called Vivid – Video News, might have contained Captain America XXX, Iron Man XXX – in hundreds of reviews of new releases. glossy two-disc sets, some of them in 3D. One recent example had just 14. Nu- “Where the business is going now merous companies have gone out of is it’s acceptable to sit down with your business. wife and girlfriend and introduce her Those movie companies that remain to pornography,” he tells me during a are focusing increasingly on high-end visit to his new offi ces. “But the stuff product, trying to beat the illegal you’re going to introduce them to is sites by providing something like a the stuff I’m making.” cinematic experience. There is a fl ight He show s me the suit he had → PHOTOGRAPHS BBC; GETTY 06.06.12 The Guardian 7 For Kagney Linn Karter (left) and other performers, there is less work and fees have dropped

For many used for his Iron Man parody. I their decision. She demur s. “Because way performers are) and irresponsible ← remark that in porn terms, it is an then I would talk three quarters of the (because the women could then infect female impressive prop. “Dude, the suit cost girls out of the business and then we the closed community of professional performers like four grand!” he says. Then, picking wouldn’t be in business.” performers). But the women can make up one of his CD cases, in mock-awe at Fees for scenes, not surprisingly, far more money having sex behind nowadays its resemblance to a “real movie”, he have taken a hit. “Some girls get $600 closed doors than doing it on fi lm and, the movies sa ys: “Look at that! That’s a porno!” [£390] for a scene now,” the retired in fact, the practice is widespread. For Black is adept at putting a positive performer JJ Michaels t ells me. “It many female performers nowadays, are a spin on the retrenchment that porn might be $900-$1,000 for a big-name the movies are merely a sideline, a kind had undergone. But he appear s some- girl. It used to get up to $3,000.” For of advertising for their real business sideline, an what ravaged and look s older than his guys, rates can be $150 or lower. of prostitution. advert for 38 years. He ha s the air of someone Women supplement their income Male performers do not have the who has been through something that by stripping and doing live shows over same options. For a tiny subsection their real hasn’t killed him, but which hasn’t the internet, shot from home on their of top talent, there is still a regular business of made him stronger either. webcams. One evening I visit one of LA pay cheque, albeit a shrinking one. If times are hard for the Rob Blacks Direct’s top performers, Kagney Linn But work has dried up for many of the prostitution of porn, they’re worse still for the men Karter – star of Racktastic and Pound journeyman-performers in the lower on screen. Even with the superhero Round – at her house as she prepares ranks and there is a great deal of anxi- parodies and the couples fi lms, and for her bi-monthly live show. Her boy- ety across the board. the lower-paid work doing scenes for friend and full-time assistant Monte is In the 90s one of the best-known pay-sites, there is still nowhere near hanging up her dresses while Kagney male performers was Jon Dough – birth enough employment for the hordes of bathe s and puts on her makeup. Monte name Chet Anuszak. He was on contract performers who hope to make a living and I then retreat to the kitchen where with Vivid – the only man in the busi- getting paid to have sex on camera. he tidies and wipes down surfaces ness to be exclusive to a company at At one of the top LA agencies while Kagney strips on her bed and that time. He had a reputation for being for performers, LA Direct, the ac- masturbates in front of the strangers a dependable “woodsman” and was countant Francine Amidor lament s viewing her through her laptop. Forty- well liked in adult circles. I interviewed the “devastating” impact of piracy. fi ve minutes later, she emerges. “Well, him in 1996 on the set of a remake of “There’s less work, and there’s an I made a hundred dollars,” she says Debbie Does Dallas. But when he killed abundance – because of the economy brightly. himself in 2006 at the age of 43 it was – of performers. There aren’t enough It’s an open secret in the porn world widely assumed that the woes of the in- people shooting to give everybody a that many female performers are dustry – and specifi cally declining DVD day’s work.” supplementing their income by “hook- sales – played a role. I put it to Amidor that she owes ing on the side”. It’s also called “doing Jon Dough’s widow is a fellow per- it to the young aspirants who still privates”, as in private bookings. The former whose stage name is Monique make their way to the LA Direct of- offi cial industry line is that it’s danger- DeMoan. They met on the set of Dr Butts fi ces to explain the consequences of ous (because clients aren’t tested the 3: The Anal Asylum and eventually had

8 The Guardian 06.06.12 a daughter together. No one in the world modest aff air – a few scenes made for a while, too. But it is diffi cult to ‘Within five of porn knows Monique’s whereabouts for an internet site. One of the male see how a business selling hardcore but I tracked her down to a conservative performers is a young man on his sec- movies and even internet clips is years I don’t state many hundreds of miles – physi- ond shoot, performing under the name sustainable when most people simply see how cally, culturally – from Los Angeles. Tony Prince. don’t want to pay if they don’t have Standing in the low-ceilinged base- His partner for the scene is called to. To many people, when it comes to there ment fl at in an insalubrious area, she Stefania. It is her third shoot and she porn, not paying for content seems the could be a says that her husband killed himself seems excited to have press around. more moral thing to do. over his cocaine addiction, and the “I’m trying to become one of the big “The way it is now, within fi ve years professional instability and sense of failure that porn stars,” she sa ys. She ask s to take a I don’t see how there could be a pro- went with it, not because of the picture with me, which she later tweets. fessional porn actor,” Michaels tells porn actor’ pressures of the industry. Still, the The scene is supposed to look like me. It’s not easy to sympathise with perception among Dough’s peers that a real-life boyfriend and girlfriend the porn companies, which made so DVD sales were a factor refl ects an sex tape. One advantage of this is much money for so long by embracing emotional truth: people in the world of that there is no need for a camera- a tawdry business and a dysfunctional porn were all too ready to believe that man. The performers shoot the action work-pool. But it is worth sparing a a top performer might have killed him- themselves. While they got down to thought for the legions of performers, self over the decline of a media format. business, to alleviate any possible per- qualifi ed for nothing much more than Still they arrive, the cohorts of aspir- formance anxiety on Tony’s part, the having sex on camera , who have no ing performers, looking for new lives of director and I make ourselves scarce in money saved, and no future. wealth and stardom in a world that can the kitchen. He has been in the busi- And there is also the wider question: no longer off er either. If Paris Hilton ness since 1998, and he too is pessimis- do those who use porn not, perhaps, and Kim Kardashian can make sex tic about its future. “It’s like I tell guys owe it a little something? Should tapes, they ask, then why shouldn’t all the time, you better make this your those who download it not be ready they? They tour the production side gig,” he sa ys. to pass on a little cash incentive to the companies for meet-and-greets with A few hours later, the two per- business ? And if not, why not? Does casting agents and directors, tick boxes formers are laughing and showering the stigma attached to porn make it OK on questionnaires about what they are together, both happy with how the to steal it? These questions underpin willing to do on camera. They make shoot had gone. In a reversal of the a much bigger dilemma being faced by one or two low-end scenes for the usual order of things, they are fl irting all media: how do you sustain an in- internet, before being chucked back and becoming friends after sex. dustry that provides a certain standard into anonymity. Where the industry will end up is of product – be it journalism, music, or On a rainy day, back on the same hard to predict. Clearly there is still mainstream movies, or X-rated movies spacious suburban house on the quiet a market for softcore movies made – when more and more consumers are Louis Theroux – Twilight of the street in the valley where A Love by companies such as Penthouse and in the habit of downloading content for Porn Stars is on Story was fi lmed, another production Hustler, available on subscription free? In the world of porn, the answer Sunday at 10pm is under way. This time, it is a more channels. The parodies may continue is: you can’t. on BBC2.

06.06.12 The Guardian 9 Conservative tastes Across the world working-class people vote for the political right, even when it appears to be against their own interests. Why? Because such parties often serve up a broader, more satisfying moral menu than the left, writes Jonathan Haidt

hy on Earth would It absolves them from blame and a working-class protects them from the need to look W person ever vote in the mirror or fi gure out what they for a conservative stand for in the 21st century. candidate? This Here’s a more painful but ultimately question has obsessed the American constructive diagnosis, from the point left since Ronald Reagan fi rst captured of view of moral psycholog y: politics the votes of so many union members, at the national level is more like reli- farmers, urban Catholics and other gion than it is like shopping. It’s more relatively powerless people – the about a moral vision that unifi es a na- so-called “ Reagan Democrats”. Isn’t tion and calls it to greatness than it is the Republican party the party of about self-interest or specifi c policies. big business? Don’t the Democrats In most countries, the right tends to stand up for the little guy, and try to see that more clearly than the left. In redistribute the wealth downwards? America the Republicans did the hard Many commentators on the left work of drafting their moral vision in have embraced some version of the the 1970s, and Ronald Reagan was their duping hypothesis: the Republican eloquent spokesman. Patriotism, social party dupes people into voting against order, strong families, personal respon- their economic interests by triggering sibility (not government safety nets) outrage on cultural issues. “Vote for and free enterprise. Those are values, ists in the US ). Think about it this way: us and we’ll protect the American not government programmes. our tongues have taste buds that are fl ag!” say the Republicans. “We’ll The Democrats, in contrast, have responsive to fi ve classes of chemicals, make English the offi cial language of the tried to win voters’ hearts by promising which we perceive as sweet, sour, salty, ! And most importantly, to protect or expand programmes bitter, and savoury. Sweetness is gen- we’ll prevent gay people from threat- for elderly people, young people, erally the most appealing of the fi ve ening your marriage when they … students, poor people and the middle tastes, but when it comes to a serious marry! Alongo g tthe e way ay we’ll e cut tataxes es cclass. ass. Vote ote for o us and a d we’ll e use govern- go meal, most people want more than that. on the rrich,ich, cut benebenefifi ts forfor tthehe ppoor,oor, mmentent to take care ooff evereveryone!yone! BuButt most In the same way, you can think of and allow ow industries to dump their Americans don’t want to livel You can the moral mind as being like a tongue waste intonto your drindrinkingking water, iinn a nation based p primarilyrimari on that is sensitive to a variety of moral fl a- but neverer mind tthat.hat. OnlOnlyy we can ccaring.aring. TThat’shat’s wwhathat ffamiliesami think of the vours. In my research with colleagues at protect you from ggay,ay, SpanishSpanish-- araree for.for. moral mind YourMorals.org , we have identifi ed six speakingng fl ag-burners!ag-burners!”” OOnene rereasonason tthehe leleftft hahas moral concerns as the best candidates One of thethe mostmost robustrobust fi nd-nd- suchsuch diffidiffi culty forgingforging a llast- as being for being the innate “taste buds” of the ings in ssocialocial psycholopsychologygy is that inging connection with votevotersr is moral sense: care/harm, fairness/cheat- people fi nd waysways to believe thatthat tthehe rightright hhasas a built-inbui like a ing, liberty/oppression, loyalty/betrayal, whateverer ttheyhey want toto advantageadvantage – ccon-o tongue that authority/subversion, and sanctity/ believe.. AAndnd servativesservatives hhavea degradation. Across many kinds of sur- the left reallyreally a broaderbroader mmoralo is sensitive veys, in the UK as well as in the USA, we want to bebelievelieve ppalatealate tthanhan the to a variety fi nd that people who self-identify as be- the dupingping liberals (a (as ing on the left score higher on questions hypothesis.esis. we call leleft- of flavours about care/harm. For example, how

10 The Guardian 06.06.12 the collapse of their society, they want order and national greatness, not a more nurturing government. Even on the two moral taste buds that both sides claim – fairness and liberty – the right can often outcook the left. The left typically thinks of equality as being central to fairness, and leftists are extremely sensitive about gross inequalities of outcome – particularly when they correspond along racial or ethnic lines. But the broader meaning of fairness is really proportionality – are people getting rewarded in proportion to the work they put into a common project? Equality of outcomes is only seen as fair by most people in the spe- cial case in which everyone has made equal contributions. The conservative media (such as the Daily Mail, or Fox News in the US) is much more sensi- tive to the presence of slackers and benefi t cheats. They are very eff ective at stirring up outrage at the government for condoning cheating. Similarly for liberty. Americans and Britons all love liberty, yet when l iberty and care confl ict, the left is more likely to choose care. This is the crux of the US’s monumental battle over Obama’s healthcare plan. Can the federal gov- ernment compel some people to buy a product (health insurance) in order to make a plan work that extends care to 30 million other people? The derogatory term “nanny state” is rarely used against the right (pastygate being perhaps an exception). Conservatives are more cautious about infringing on individual liberties (eg of gun owners in the US and small businessmen) in order to protect vulnerable populations (such as children, animals and immigrants). In sum, the left has a tendency to place caring for the weak, sick and vulnerable above all other moral much would someone have to pay you “cultural” issues that, according to Protesters concerns. It is admirable and neces- to kick a dog in the head? Nobody wants duping theorists, are used to distract march against sary that some political party stands up to do this, but liberals say they would voters from their self-interest. But US healthcare for victims of injustice, racism or bad require more money than conservatives are voters really voting against their reform (above). luck. But in focusing so much on the to cause harm to an innocent creature. self-interest when they vote for Ronald Reagan needy, the left often fails to address – But on matters relating to group candidates who share their values? (far left), a and sometimes violates – other moral loyalty, respect for authority and Loyalty, respect for authority and some conservative needs, hopes and concerns. When sanctity (treating things as sacred and degree of sanctifi cation create a more who won working-class people vote conserva- untouchable, not only in the context binding social order that places some widespread tive, as most do in the US, they are of religion), it sometimes seems that limits on individualism and egoism. working-class not voting against their self-interest; liberals lack the moral taste buds, or at As marriage rates plummet, and support they are voting for their moral inter- least, their moral “cuisine” makes less globalisation and rising diversity erodes est. They are voting for the party that use of them. For example, according to the sense of common heritage within serves to them a more satisfying moral our data, if you want to hire someone each nation, a lot of voters in many cuisine. The left in the UK and USA to criticise your nation on a radio show western nations fi nd themselves hun- should think hard about their recipe in another nation (loyalty), give the gering for conservative moral cuisine. for success in the 21st century. fi nger to his boss (authority), or sign Despite being in the wake of a fi nan- a piece of paper stating one’s willing- cial crisis that – if the duping theorists Jonathan Haidt is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and a visiting ness to sell his soul (sanctity), you can were correct – should have buried the professor of business ethics at the NYU-Stern save a lot of money by posting a sign: cultural issues and pulled most voters School of Business. He is the author of The “ Conservatives need not apply.” to the left, we are fi nding in America Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided In America, it is these three moral and many European nations a stronger by Politics and Religion. To take the survey described in this essay, visit www.yourmorals. foundations that underlie most of the shift to the right. When people fear org/express_welcome_sacredness.php

06.06.12 The Guardian 11 Style

Friendship This trend has been bbuildinguilding for a whilwhile.e. bracelet It’s basically hippie-ishie-ish ffriendshipriendship bracelets reprised inn poposhersher materials – a bit of gold alongg with some bright string. It’s the acceptableceptable face of festival fashion in a ssummerummer wwhenhen festival fashion is aatt its lowest point ever. The bracelets segueegue easieasilyly into tthehe more discreet wardrobesobes of women who don’t do glam Dubaii paste. A summsummerer fashion fad for womenen who know bettebetterr than to attempt studdedded denim cut-offcut-off s. Friendship bracelet,t, £35, bbyy NiNikkikki BB,, Sicilian from asos.comos.cocomm sundress

Forty-fi ve degrees is what distinguishes this summer’s shoe from any summer’s shoe. The heel of a classic summer wedge has been lowered and is now spirit-level fl at but with a chunky 7cm sole. It’s a bit less easy to walk in than a wedge but gives more fl attering elevation than a wafer-fl at sandal. They are all over the high street in various incarnations – from espadrilles to lace- ups. Go for a classic leather strappy version to take the throw-everything- at-it, sting out of the fl atform’s tail. Flatforms, £110, by Whistles, whistles.co.uk

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12 The Guardian 06.06.12 We rolled our eyes when we watched the Swimsuits hipsters get involved with this one. But then something happened that meant we U-turned at Osborne-like speed. Mrs Prada showed dip-dyed hair with her darkly embellished autumn collection We’re not being rash here and (right). Fickle, much? suggesting you ditch your two-pieceece bikini. But the unmistakable truth is that swimsuits have the style momentumum this summer. So far our recent favouriteurite one-piece moments have come courtesy of a pregnant Tori Spelling in a Dip-dyed crocheted one-piece (why not, haters?)ers?) hair and Victoria Beckham in an impeccableable swimsuit for iD magazine. Super- expensive costumes are hard to justify. But a well-cut one-piece that has a bit of the Cannes starlet about it is exactly what your suitcase is gagging for. Swimsuit, £49, bbyy Boden, boden.co.uboden.co.ukk

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seasonal trends. Imogen Fox brings you the 10 key looks

06.06.12 The Guardian 13 Nail art Matt, coloured stretch jeans say last summer. Leather jeans suggest that you are a sunshine- denier. Want to know what says summer 2012 on the denim front? A pair of skinny jeans with a waxed coating, that’s what. Zara’s version has already gone cult. An under-£40 wardrobe update that will see you right until way beyond the end of the season. Waxed jeans, £39.99, by Zara, zara.com

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Arts

Dominic Savage’s work is the last word in gritty drama, so why has he made a set of love stories by the sea? Vicky Frost hears how Tracey Emin convinced him to immortalise their home town, and why can only declare his love in 70s song titles Love’s labours found – in Margate

reamland Welcomes burning inside me for a long time and Time and tide ... who persuaded him to return to their ‘ You” reads the I thought that if I didn’t do it now, I (above) Gemma old home town to make the drama, he D fading sign as we pull probably never would. A series of love Chan and David says, after they met at the opening of into a large, empty stories in a place that I consider to be Morrissey in True Turner Contemporary, the new arts car park just off romantic. It felt absolutely right.” Love; (left) David centre that sits on the seafront. “She Margate seafront. Above a huddle of The idea is a departure for Savage, Tennant and was incredibly emotional about the Winnebagos and catering vans looms whose television fi lms such as Freefall, Dominic Savage place, as was I, and she said, ‘You’ve the skeletal frame of this abandoned Born Equal and the two-part Dive tend on set got to make a fi lm here, Dominic, amusement park’s scenic railway: to take a longer, more involved, form. you’ve just got to.’ I thought, ‘Yes, this rusting rails leading nowhere, ticket This time he is making fi ve half-hour is it!’ It was clear I had to do it.” booths fi rmly shuttered. dramas for BBC1 with the catch-all title On a brief tour of the town, we pass Gloomy doesn’t quite do the True Love, featuring some of Britain’s the smart house where Tennant’s scene justice. That special air of best television actors. ‘Sometimes character lives with his wife, and the salt-sprayed nostalgia that infuses and Downton’s Joanne Froggatt star in you feel once-grand townhouse , now broken down-at-heel British seaside towns the fi rst as a happily married couple, up into fl ats, that and heightens everything here, turning with Vicky McClure as Tennant’s liberated Walters call home. the depressing into heartbreaking, long-lost love; David Morrissey, from the “The other day we were shooting the happy into bittersweet. You can Jane Horrocks, and in a place that I used to go with a understand why Bafta-winning writer- are among those also script, and former love,” Savage says. “ I didn’t director Dominic Savage has chosen appearing in dramas that stand alone consciously choose it because of that, this spot for his latest contemplation of but, through shared characters and sometimes it just happened to be a very dramatic love and its associated pain and joy. setting, form one coherent tale about you realise location. It was only when we were Savage grew up in Margate, in a fl at the impact of love on ordinary lives. shooting that I realised why we were overlooking the very car park where A sense of place is never far from the why writers there. So this fi lm is full of places that actors and crew for his set of short surface in Savage’s work, and his love/ get paid I’ve been, and feelings that I’ve felt.” dramas are now gathered for lunch. His hate aff air with Margate is the sixth As darkness falls and the lights dad was a seaside organist. “It’s been storyline here. It was Tracey Emin so much’ along the seafront slowly wink on,

16 The Guardian 06.06.12 TV-ON-SEA: BRITISH COASTAL DRAMAS

Dive gives you a freedom: sometimes you Dominic Savage feel liberated from the script, and obviously has a thing sometimes you realise why writers get for the seaside – his paid so much,” Morrissey laughs. heartbreakingly It is an approach that has proved beautiful tale of young love was successful for Savage in the past – and fi lmed in Skegness, one with which Morrissey is familiar, with long, gorgeous having worked with him on other landscape shots projects. “I knew I had to join in – but punctuating the fi lm. it could be terrible; I could just wonder what the hell am I doing? The whole Blackpool series is about love, and people who Way back in 2004, before Glee or fi nd love, and there were times where Smash made it seemed I could only declare my love in musical television terrible 70s song titles.” mainstream, the BBC Watching Morrissey improvise, I am gave us Blackpool, immediately struck by how brilliantly a musical comedy Savage’s process captures the way drama starring people actually speak to each other. Davids Morrissey Months later, however, seeing the fi rst and Tennant – both of whom also appear fi nished episodes (Morrissey’s story in Savage’s True comes later in the run), I also wonder Love. Morrissey whether that might not always be a in particular is good thing. We do tend to talk in cliches fantastic. about love, repeating the same trite lines because our emotions are diffi cult Sugar Rush to express. Sometimes we could all do ’s fi rst-rate drama series based with the help of a good writer. on Julie Birchill’s novel starred Lenora avage talks about how Crichlow and Olivia diff erent actors approached Hallinan (below) the project in diff erent ways: as teenage friends S some spent a long time enthusiastically looking into their characters, exploring their while others, such as Walters, were sexuality in Brighton. more instinctive and immediate. For Walters, that really pays off : his Howard’s Way portrait of a new dad, struggling with With a theme tune the mundane reality of work and that was possibly family, feels particularly real. Some better than the actual show, this late 80s other characters in the series feel less BBC series set in a rounded: slipping in and out of each we head fi rst to the beach, where the about his internet dating, and I’ll just fi ctional south coast others’ lives with great dramatic eff ect, actors’ voices are swallowed up by the start talking about these things.” English town was but not always enough background. wind that whips at our clothes . It is a Savage, though, is clear he doesn’t heavy on yachts and “I always wanted each of the fi lms relief to step inside the formidable grey work this way for the hell of it. “I’ve soapy drama. VF to encapsulate love in a completely towerblock that dominates the skyline, always wanted it to be successful truthful and visceral way,” Savage and head up to the fl at belonging to and to connect with the audiences; says. “With love stories, the fi lms Morrissey’s character, Adrian, for a for them to feel that diff erence and that really work are the ones where closer look at Savage’s unconventional mood – because then I can do it again you completely believe it – but so working methods. and again,” he says. It would, he few do that. To make drama that has There is no script, just a story concedes, be easier to sit at home, something to say about real lives and outline, character development and write a script and then present it to relationships, but at the same time is improvisation around it – a way of the actors; a far less stressful way of very personal to you and your feelings working that reminds me more of working that is more guaranteed to about love and relationships and their devised theatre work than television get results. complications … hopefully that’s the fi lming. Savage, who unlike his Not that Savage appears particularly greatest expression.” name has a gentle manner and a stressed – rather, he seems to revel Savage and Morrissey continue to generous, delighted laugh, works, in the open-ended nature of the work on their scene while, through reworks then reworks again a scene stories he is making. But, says the large windows behind them, night between Morrissey and his on-screen Morrissey , this method doesn’t always falls thickly over Margate seafront. In teenage daughter. work. “Sometimes you talk over each the dark, Emin’s love letter to Margate “It’s a very diff erent way of other, sometimes you hit a brick wall, – “I never stopped loving you” – is working,” says Morrissey. “It’s quite and you never know when the scene is illuminated in neon. Inside, Savage JOSS BARRATT; CHANNEL 4 BARRATT; JOSS nerve-racking. For a half-hour drama going to stop. You don’t know when it’s is creating his own love letter to the there are 10 pages of script. Dominic going to end.” town, and to love itself. breaks it down into scenes and will tell It’s a very collaborative process, me, for instance, that my character is with to-and-fro between Savage and True Love is on BBC1 from 18 to 22 June.

PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS in the back of a cab talking to a friend the actors. “This way of working really

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ads Mikkelsen is Hard to resist … Mikkelsen in A Royal battleworn. He has just Aff air; (below) in Cannes last month M been chasing the moonlight across a developed his style across genres Romanian set, fi lming as the country’s fi lm scene matured the climactic gunfi ght of a new mob from the fl ash-bang adolescence thriller, The Necessary Death of Charlie of Dogme 95 into something more Countryman. It’s a US production conservative and commercial. starring Shia LaBeouf, so naturally the “The big bang happened in the mid- Danish actor plays the baddie. 90s,” says Mikkelsen . “At that time – This, broadly, is how it goes for From Bond villain to mythical monster how can I compare it? – Danish cinema Mikkelsen in Hollywood: he’s one of a was like a country today that doesn’t roll call of European actors recruited to bait, Mads Mikkelsen knows his place have the iPad. We were doing stuff that add spice to popcorn. For Mikkelsen, was really old school. And now I think that means being ready to shoulder on the Hollywood roll call. But with his we use that base to be brave enough to the status of morally ambiguous arthouse career booming, he’s ready for go out and make genre fi lms.” sex symbol, whether as Bond villain Denmark’s current genre king is (Le Chiff re, Casino Royale’s blood- the big time, he tells Henry Barnes Nicolas Winding Refn , who gave weeping banker), enforcer (the baneful Mikkelsen his fi rst fi lm role as lovable Rochefort of last year’s The Three drug dealer Tonny in the 1996 crime Musketeers), or mythical monster bait drama Pusher . “He always had the ( Clash of the Titans ’ Draco). Mads touch of something stylised,” says “It’s just another part of being an Mikkelsen of the Drive director, “even actor,” he says, the lisp in his English when he was making really hardcore, rasping a little after the nightshoot. almost documentary-feel fi lms.” “It’s not only doing arthouse fi lms, The pair, who last worked together but going in there and really, really for it on Viking action fl ick Valhalla Rising , believing there’s a giant scorpion and are set to reunite with an as-yet- you’re going to kill it.” unnamed Hollywood heist movie that Yet behind the blockbusters, his should bump Mikkelsen up to leading- arthouse career is booming. Last week, man status. “If no one else will give he won Cannes’ best actor prize for his him the lead in a Hollywood movie, role in The Hunt, the new fi lm from I will,” said Refn of the project in 2010. Festen director Thomas Vinterberg , Until then it’s art and business as in which a nursery school teacher is “Before we made fi lms about usual for Mikkelsen, with a starring accused of paedophilia. Next week sees gangsters, everything was about the role in Arnaud des Pallières’s Michael the release of A Royal Aff air – a classy royal families,” says Mikkelsen. “This Kohlhaas (a revenge story about a Danish drama based on the true story is really about the love aff air between horse merchant-turned-vigilante, of Johann Friedrich Struensee , the three people – Struensee, Christian and based on Heinrich von Kleist’s novella ) German doctor who became personal Queen Caroline. And how painful it is ‘In the 90s, balanced out by his rumoured casting physician to the mentally unstable when Christian discovers the whole Danish as the anvil to Chris Hemsworth’s King Christian VII. thing. He seems more jealous for hammer in Thor 2. That’s another Struensee used his infl uence Struensee than for his wife, because cinema Hollywood bad-guy role, but it will get over the regent to move from right- he really, really loves him.” was like a his face on the billboard, some money hand man to puppetmaster, making The fi lm may be a little stilted, but in the bank, and – let’s not forget – time to embark on an aff air with the Mikkelsen’s portrayal of Struensee is country should be a lot of fun, too. “If I was queen, father their illegitimate child deft and nuanced. And if the doctor’s doing The Hunt constantly,” Mikkelsen and become the de facto ruler of skill was in seizing a moment, it’s hard today that says, “I would get very old, very fast.” Denmark for 10 months in 1771, before to resist casting Mikkelsen in a similar doesn’t have a conspiracy instigated by the king’s role. He’s one of Danish cinema’s A Royal Aff air is released on 15 June. mother led to his arrest and execution. talented opportunists, an actor who the iPad’ AFP/GETTY PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

18 The Guardian 06.06.12 Z is for zanies Arts Michael Billington rounds off his A–Z of modern drama with a tribute to comedians guardian.co.uk/stage

Portrait of the artist Abi Morgan, writer ‘My defi nition of success is not worrying if money will come out of the cash machine’

What got you started? How can British TV stand up to the Which other artists do you most I had a huge interior world as a kid: I’d great drama series coming out of the admire? sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall US and Scandinavia? IN SHORT Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my playing with paper dolls. When I was By ensuring we refl ect the British theatre work. Her art is about points older, I’d go backstage after watching sensibility – our strong sense of irony, of impact: it’s poetic, but with a strong Born plays [her father was a director, her our truth-telling. And by drawing on Cardiff , 1968. literal story. And it was very inspiring mother an actor] and knew I wanted to our amazing theatre heritage: most Career working with an artist like Steve do something in theatre. But I didn’t TV writers here start out in theatre Film and TV work McQueen [on Shame], because I don’t start writing until I went to university and that’s where our actors become includes Shame, The consider myself an artist. and realised I was going to be the so skilled, too. There’s a reason Iron Lady and The world’s worst actor. I thought I’d better why so many British actors – Hugh Hour. Plays include How do you defi ne success? Lovesong for Frantic fi nd something else. Laurie, Dominic West – are working Not worrying about whether any Assembly, and 27 in American television. for the National money will come out when I put my What was your big breakthrough? Theatre of Scotland, card in the cash machine. Meeting the director Vicky Featherstone You seem very prolifi c. Do you put in at the Cambridge at Paines Plough theatre company. You long hours? Arts theatre What work of art would you most like need your champions: she gave me I guess so; I work from about 8.30am (01223 503333) to own? confi dence about my work. until 7pm, fi ve days a week, when I’m until Saturday. Anything by Lucian Freud for quiet not sneaking off to buy another bar High point drama, or David Hockney for sheer joy. “So many – writing What are the main diff erences of chocolate. with Steve McQueen, between writing for stage and screen? spending time with What’s the best advice anyone ever Stage is the place of the playwright: Who or what have you sacrifi ced for Meryl Streep.” gave you? you’re guided by great actors and your art? Low point Once, when I was struggling, my mum directors, but it’s the playwright’s word A decent haircut: I’m always darting “The pile of scripts told me a phrase she’d read: “Love the on the page that counts. In fi lm, you around, so I have to constantly cancel. on my shelf that fl ower in winter when it says nothing.” have to constantly rewrite and be happy Friends: I owe a lot of people a lot of never got made.” I liked the idea that everyone has their Interview by about giving things up. But that can be dinners. And occasionally, when things winter . There are times when you’re Laura Barnett great – it keeps your ego in check. get stressful, my sense of humour. quiet, then you come round again.

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y parents got me up Fascinating viewing … The Transit of for the moon landing. Venus: a Horizon Special, BBC2 M Plonked me in front of the telly, just so I could women. What, that’s sexist too? It’s bore my grandchildren probably sexist to even notice they about it one day. (My grandchildren were women. I did though, and I like who’ll probably be living on the moon.) it ... and I had better drop this before it I don’t remember anything about it. goes to tribunal. But I’m glad they got me up. More to the point, it isn’t just I thought I’d give my own son fascinating, it’s important too. A something momentous not to previous one of these transits led remember . Took him down to the – via Captain Cook and Tahiti – to Thames on Sunday, so he could tell his the fi rst calculation of the size of grandchildren (who’ll probably live Last night's TV the solar system and the birth of on Venus) that he saw the diamond modern astronomy. They help us jubilee of Elizabeth II, back in the day The Queen can keep her better understand the secrets of the when there was a monarchy, before the universe. And – most fascinating of revolution ... jubilee, my week is all all – they are helping us in our search Pah! What a bloody waste of time for life elsewhere. That’s what Seth, that was. We stood in a miserable the telescope man (not that his gender crowd several streets away from the about the transit of Venus matters), is doing – they’re listening river, in the rain, being turned back telescopes, and Seth is listening for by policemen and security guards life ... elsewhere. Whoa. wherever we tried to go. Then we went Turns out my great grandchildren home, crying. I’m now going to make won’t be living on Venus after all. Way every eff ort to insure his fi rst word is too hot and hostile, ever since the “republicanism”. oceans got torn off . They may be living Still, I feel I let him down, on the somewhere else though, somewhere bore-the-grandchildren experience By Sam Wollaston more like here. Or perhaps someone front. But wait, what’s this – The else will be living here (if this planet Transit of Venus: a Horizon Special away by epic solar winds. And there isn’t too hot and hostile by then). (BBC2). On the morning of 6 June was me – call me Sid the Sexist – think- ET in other words, which is about a (tomorrow as I write, probably ing they just got three beautiful brainy billion times more interesting than ER. earlier today as you read), a very rare women in because it fi ts with the Screw the Queen, this week is all about planetary alignment – far less frequent Venus theme, even if it’s not quite their the transit of Venus. I’ll get my son up than any jubilee – will take place: Venus subject. When actually they got them for that. What, it’s on at 4.46 in the will pass across the face of the sun. And in because they’re the best men for morning? No, problem, we’re normally here’s Liz Bonnin to tell us all about it. the job, so to speak. There are more of up then anyway. Oh, the forecast is for Hang on, Liz Bonnin, the them too, women everywhere. Here’s clouds. Never mind, there’s another in biologist? What’s she doing fronting a Sue Smrekar, a vulcanologist, up an 2117. By which time he’ll probably be programme about astronomy? Oh yes, mountain; and Birgit Sattler, another approaching retirement, wherever he that’s what she’s doing, I remember – biologist, up another mountain; and … is in the solar system. Liz pretty much is Venus, an absolute oh, Seth Shostak, something to do with AND ANOTHER Also lovely is All in The Best goddess. Totally brainy too, of course, telescopes, who’s very clearly a he. THING Possible Taste (Channel 4), Grayson even if this is not exactly the right fi eld Mark Swain and David Ehrenreich too, Perry’s fearless and sneerless study for her. And she’s got Dr Lucie Green, unquestionably blokes. Boo, hiss, get When my baby is of class and taste. We’ll deal with it in a massive strop, the solar physicist, to help with the ’em off (’em meaning the blokes, just properly next week, when he’s in only one thing calms planetary stuff . And Dr Helen Czerski, to be quite clear). It was going so well him … a Channel 5 Tunbridge Wells to meet the middle the, er, oceanographer … until then. documentary called classes. Should be even more fun that Oh, I see. Venus did once have Anyway, it’s very nice – refreshing The World’s Most the working classes of Sunderland. oceans, before they were whipped even – to have science presented by Extreme Airports. Easier to chuckle at. ANDREW HASSON/BBC PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

06.06.12 The Guardian 21 Film of the day TV and radio The Getaway (11.30pm, BBC1) Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger reprise the roles played by Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in 1972, in Roger Donaldson’s watchable thriller remake

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