Giant unknown winged creature rips hole in side of passenger jet over the Pacific… Jet lands safely…

Well, yeah. I know. But it’s sort of a more arresting headline isn’t it than the actual one (for anyone not on the jet of course).

And after all, this leads on the front page of an Irish Times inside of which we read William Hague writing:

No outside has any right to tell the Irish how to handle Lisbon…

…and then spoils things by going on to spend just under 1,000 words doing pretty much exactly that. Pesky foreigners – eh?

And in the not only, but also, category Jessica Lange argues that:

“They were great parts [for women actors in the 1980s] and there were enough to go around. You had this whole generation of actresses of my age and we were all working in wonderful movies for great directors. And it wasn’t limited to one or two movies a year. That’s all changed. So many movies now seem geared towards post-pubescent males.”

Nah, don’t think so. More or less the same now as then. Which isn’t great, but perhaps a little rich for her (star of King Kong, 1976) to be donning the rosy tinted retrospective specs…