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A Really Good Day at the Office – - with hidden depths? A few weeks ago I found myself standing on a West London underground platform (unusual). I found myself unwittingly comparing the massive difference between west London underground Trains and those of the poorer East London: The Eastern “tube” platforms of my local East London are little more than underground rat-runs, filled with the black dust of ground metal that is produced by the grinding of heavy metal wheels on polished metal rails. (That dust which some people are beginning to suspect may have had serious health consequences for those regularly exposed to it over the last century). By contrasts savage, this West London interchange platform was a scenic place. It was filled with sunlight (having the advantage of an arched skylight roof )and real air; this being actually an “overground underground station”; a fact that in itself made me feel like a human travelling on luxury technology rather than like a rat tubed to a

Luhrman Rocks – but doesn’t Roll. TSS VERDICT: “Fat – but still sexy… just like the King.” “Elvis was not another man on the planet….He was sent here… he was an Angel. Have you seen that movie- Touched by an Angel? We were touched by an Angel.” -Estelle Brown , of the Sweet Inspirations Singing Troupe who regularly backed Elvis in Vegas. Another of the trio Sweet Inspirations was the mother of 80’s Superstar Whitney Huston. Elvis tried to date one of these black backing singers… contrary to rumours that he was a racist. This AiMD Film Review has been resurrected & re-posted after the original (AUG22/Viewed 6.3k times ) mysteriously disappeared as it disappeared from this BLOG??) Around fifteen years ago, (in London) I mentioned that something on the classroom board “looked like Elvis” to a class of 8 year olds. One boy in the class put his hand up and asked: “What’s an Elvis?” He was a kid from an Arabic country… probably as physically beautiful as Elvis (also- like EP-

If you have ever sat alone and friendless in one of those anodyne fast-food outlets, without a soul in the world / or city ...to chat to… then the scenes of Chris Pratt dining alone in the machine-served, human-free food courts of a deserted giant space cruiser, between stars- doomed to die alone… well, those scenes will pull both playing hands over and over every heart-string on the romantic harp inside your mind. Passengers A Sci-Fi movie with a BIG allegory about Romance a quiet masterpiece of poignancy to be enjoyed here. Written by: Jon Spaihts Directed by: Morten Tyldum Well Worth A Second Trip AIMD Don’t we all become passengers in someone else’s dream in the end? You may recall from several years ago a Sci-Fi movie titled Passengers (featuring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence ). Listed as a sci-fi movie (like so many classics of the genre – the Russian epic springs to mind) , Passengers 2016 was really a well-executed allegory for many relationships. Fear of