Thursday, 22 February 2024

I have to go out in The World.







Hi.

- Hello.


Why didn't you use your key?


Can I come in?


Er... I'm on my way out.


OK.


What's going on?


Nothing.


Why can't you trust me?


I don't wanna talk about it, Nance.


- Is it me? Are you turned off to me?

- No.


Why don't you want me anymore?


I'm tired, that's all.


I'm not an idiot.


Nance, what I'm doing is affecting me.


I'm on your side, you know?


I don't know, I...


I don't understand

what's happening to you.


Neither do I.


Maybe we should 

cut loose for a while.


Yeah.


Yeah. OK.


Steve?


Forget it.


I don't understand how you let

those guys work me over like that.


Welcome to 

The Detective Division.


We're gonna have 

to find another way,

because I'm not getting 

paid enough to go through this.


You think I enjoy it

We're looking

for A Killer

We gotta make 

it convincing.


Look, the guy was innocent.

You worked him over

like he shot The President or something.


You destroyed that kid.

You didn't even 

have a case against him.


You fingered him.


I didn't think anybody

was gonna go that far with him.


Sometimes you only get 

that one chance.


He didn't have a knife.


I didn't come on this job to shitcan

some guy just cos he's gay, Captain.


You're gonna come into days 

where you have to 

collar a dozen guys like that.


Scared, weird little guys 

who don't know why they 

have to do what they do.


It isn't their fault,

it isn't your fault, 

it's the job.


I can't do the job.

I don't think I can do the job, Captain.

I don't think I can handle it, that's all.

I don't know...


It's just... It's...

Things happening 

to me, you know.

I don't know that I can handle it.


I want you to know that it's not

because I'm afraid or anything.


It's just stuff going down,

I don't think I can... 

I can deal with it.


I need you.


You're my partner

and you can't let me down.


We're up to our ass in this,

and I'm counting on you.


Steve...

This is from the Columbia University yearbook.


These pictures go back two years.


There's a check mark

next to every student

who ever took a class from

that Columbia professor 

who got killed.


I'd like you to take this

and see if you can 

recognise anybody.


'Registrar's office. Good Morning.'


Yes, I'm trying to locate a student, Stuart Richards.


He's in The Department

of Music and Speech.


'Is he enrolled in 

the summer session?'


Er... yes, I believe he is.


'Would you wait just a moment, please?'


Yes.


- 'Hold on.'

- Yes.


'The last address I have

on Stuart Richards...'


Hold on just a second, please. Yes?


- 'It's 140...'

- One-forty.


'Claremont Ave., Morningside Heights.'

- Thank you.


God, what is this? 

Sheep shit?


What do you expect

for 50 cents a pack?


I didn't realise things

were getting that rough.


I think my old man's about 

to draw the line again.

He turned me down on a car.


Oh, yeah?


He doesn't understand 

why I'd want a car to do 

research in a library that's 

right across the street

from where I live.


So what are you gonna do?


Live within my meagre means

and continue my thesis on the roots of the American musical theatre.


All in the way of buying 

two more years before 

I have to go out in The World.


I didn't mean your 

Plans for Life, Stuie. 

What about tonight?


Don't call me Stuie, OK?



Sorry.


I got a lot of stuff 

to do tonight, Paul.


I have to go out


I should do more work.


Well, if you get tired of studying,

Maybe I can get my old man

to adopt you.


You're too kind.


You noticed.


Father

I need to Talk to You.


I wish just once you'd say

something positive to me.


I've tried to do

everything you wanted,

but it's never good enough.


I've Taken it for Granted

that You Understood, Stuie.

You know what 

You have to do.


'You know what 

You have to do.'


Yes?


I'm looking for Ted.

I got the room next door.


You must be the 

famous John Forbes.


You must be Greg.


Yeah, looks as if 

I got back just in time.


What do you mean?


Do you usually come barging in

on Ted at dinnertime?


I don't know whether

that's any of your business.


Wrong. It's exactly my business.

Anyway, you struck-out tonight.

Ted isn't here.


Where is he?


If you must know, 

he's out working an IBM machine 

in a primo brokerage house.


It pays well because normal folk

don't like working at night.


It's good for him

cos when he's out 

working he's not out 

getting involved.

If you know what I mean?


No, I don't know what you mean.



No?


No.


Ted is too sensitive to 

have too many involvements.

We found that out with 

the last piece of trash 

that moved in —

It must be something about 

that room, the people 

it attracts, do you suppose?


You bastard.


Pussy.


Come on, you cocksucker!


Just do it again and I'll 

call The Police, asshole!


Fuck.


Oh, shit.


Motherfucker!


You're in love with him.

You love Ted, don't you?


You're crazy, Mister.

You ought to be committed!


You wanna play

I'll play with You!


Get out.

You Can Still Learn at a Crooked University

You Can Still Learn at a Crooked University





“….you can learn a fair bit by attending a crooked University —
I mean, well, you can you can learn how to withstand corruption, right?
I mean you can learn how to craft an argument as an undergraduate 
that's so solid that even the professors who were ideologically motivated, 
are compelled by whatever is left of their conscience to grade you appropriately 
and so that's difficult but it's possible — 

But as A Psychologist, especially if you want to be a clinical psychologist…. 
Look, the only anything Clinical Psychology has to offer in terms of Curative in terms 
of the Curative process is Truth —I mean people come to a psychologist to confess.

I'm dead serious about that — you know the person comes to tell you 
the diagnostic process is a confessional process,  the person comes in —
— if you don't know that clinical psychologists are 
secular priests you're just not really paying attention —
— so so the I mean that even historically I mean Carl Rogers 
was a seminarian for crying out loud,
he was a Christian m Christian Missionary, that's a good example there I mean
 there were secularist humanist psychologists but they're just 
Christians who didn't know it, so — so the person comes in 
and and they tell you their troubles, and 
they have to do that honestly because otherwise you don't know 
what their troubles are neither do they and that's a confessional process 
and if you're very careful when you're the listening ear which is part of the diic process 
then they believe they can trust you and hopefully that's The Truth and then they can lay their cards on the table and you can start to understand why they're suffering and then if you help them strategise in relationship to their suffering they can find their way and that's a Redemptive process aimed at atonement and that's all predicated on logos right the core of the dialogical process and logos is the spirit of Truth aimed the spirit of Truth oriented by love and that's how the therapeutic process works it's a recreation of the optimized parental environment that's another way of thinking about it but that all falls apart in the absence of a strict commitment to humility and truth and if the psychological profession has abandoned that and which has happened to a large degree now in no small part because of compulsion by law you have to validate the person's identity that's that last bloody thing you do as a therapist you come to see me and ask me to validate your identity it's like go find someone else to to talk to you know it's like if you're if you're in the garden of paradise already I'll validate your identity but if you're stumbling around stupidly suffering like everybody else then we're going to do some investigation to find out just exactly what's wrong with your identity not how it's perfect already right and and I'm not I'm not making light of this it strikes right to the core of the matter every every form of therapy is conversion therapy right you convert the poor miserable blind stumbling bastard into something halfways capable of living in the world which is what you're trying to do to yourself and you better do that with your eyes open and in truth and if you don't do that as a therapist well you're not a therapist I mean you're someone who thinks that their job is to convince 13-year-old girls to to chop off their breasts — yeah ha ha it's terrible it's terrible what's happened it's terrible it's brutally [Applause] barbaric and it's part it's part it's a part it's part of a very very deep lie and my profession is unbelievably complicit in it and it's appallingly shameful just as it is in many ways to be academic so I don't know what to tell you about pursuing the profession what I can tell you there's great books you know read them ignore your

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Where's MY Twin?










Christopher Eccleston Breaks Down After Admitting To Bullying | Good Mor...




Q. :
Christopher Eccleston who joins us now
is involved in the Stand up to Bullying campaign --
Have you ever been bullied did
you become A Bully as a result of that....?
What's been your background 
personally in all this -- ?

Chris :
Both. I -- I was bullied at school 
from the age of five by a girlwho 
was seven and it happened every playtime --
playtime became terror time for me, 
she would trap me against the wall,
she would make me do sums -- maths 
as we now call it -- and it really coloured
my life -- I didn't want to go to school 
certainly didn't want to go out at playtime
 but this was in 1969 on a council estate 
in Manchester and my -- as I've grown up 
and I've thought about that girl,  she was --
 how could I say....?
she seemed not as cared-for, physically,
you know, as some of the other children and -- 
and my thought is "God knows what was 
going on at home..." because there
was definitely a sense that this girl
was very very troubled, and 
that's what I take from it really --

Q. :
....and how did that
How did you become A Bully,
make you then become --

Chris :
Well, I was but I --I was bullied there,
 and then when I moved up to the juniors 
I was bullied again by a boy and one of 
the big factors I think, for all people 
who were bullied is shame;
and I could never tell my parents 
that I was being bullied because 
I grew up in quite a macho — 
Macho culture you're supposed 
to stand up to yourself;

If I'd have told my dad he would have flattened
the school and I didn't want that —
eventually told my mom about the second
bully The Boy, but when she came to school, 
I was so terrified that I identified the wrong boy 
so that was a very bad thing —  and then 
there was a period when I bullied 
for a very short period and I did stop it myself
Thank God, but it's A Shame that 
I carry to this day; and I can't —

the pop psychology of it is, I bullied 
because I was bullied
I don't know I don't know that except that 
I know that I feel a great deal of shame.

Q. :
How did your bullying manifest
how did your bullying which you know,
you still think about clearly how
did that manifest itself
what did you Don to 

Chris :
….it was it was um it was a very
sensitive boy in my class and I used at
break time used to make him give me some
of his crisps and I did it a few times
and I'm very very ashamed of it —

Q. :
Extraordinary. You mean — you're getting
emotional as you remember this.... 


Chris :
-- oh yeah
it's been a it's been a great shame and
I would like to apologise to him and you
know who that guy is
I know — I know he's not him here 
I don't know where he is — 

you really feel that
you would like to apologize
of course do you think that he was
Do you think you were bullied by others
subjected to bullying by other people as
well

Chris :
Probably. He was probably like myself
when I went into the infants vulnerable
and sensitive and I mean you can make
the leap of Oh I felt powerless so I
made somebody else feel powerless —

I have to say, you know, saying this um — on
television is very difficult but I did
self-regulate if you like, I did stop myself 
and I can remember doing it now
knowing actually feeling dislike for
myself as I did it so it's 
a very complex thing 

Q. :
What is your advice to —
Advice for people who are being bullied
people who are either being bullied
because you've been that person 
or, who are part of a bullying culture
themselves, what should they be thinking
what should they be doing to try 
and overcome these two things 

those who are
being bullied do me yeah those are with
us those who are being bullying then
those who are doing the bullying well
those who are being bullied bullying you
know I think certainly the culture I
grew up in you were in encouraged not to
tell tales you know and it's called
How to stop bullying
snitching
yes fiction and there's a real you know
in some schools the idea that you would
tell on somebody treating you like that
well it's very friends what I would say
to the person what I would say to the
person who's being bullied don't think
of yourself think of others because if
you point it out to the teachers etc you
are actually preventing this person
bullying somebody else so if you don't
want to do it for yourself do it for
others and if you're doing the bullying
stop.



Q. :
How did you stop the self-regulation
they you talked about, how did you find
the strength to do that --?


Chris :
I -- I just knew it
was wrong from the beginning
and I think I must have come and I can't
say that I remember it it was a boy that
I liked very much
i I went with a feeling that I had the
first time I did it that it was wrong
and I stopped.




Christopher Eccleston on Suffering 
Anorexia Since the Age of Six | Lorraine



Christopher Eccleston became a household name after taking on the role of The Doctor back in 2005 and is now appearing in the hit TV series 'The A Word' but reveals that this role was the only thing keeping him going. 

Christopher, who has suffered from depression and anorexia since the age of six, has published his memoir 
'I Love the Bones of You' which follows his struggles 
with anorexia as a child, to his father's dementia.
Broadcast on 08/10/2019


this is a cracking book and it's also in
Unix it says I love the ones of you my
father in the making of me and a lot of
it is about your your dad yeah what a
man yeah yeah yeah very much a man of
his class
very very bright man very very
hard-working but not given the
opportunities that I've been given see I
identified with so much of this book it
was quite extraordinary it really was
especially what you say about class yeah
you know because sometimes and and you
know that sometimes you got a reputation
to be in a bit chippy 

Mmm.

…because you stood up for yourself —

yeah 

but because of where you're from 
and your background you were called 
chippy rather than assertive.

Oh, well, that's the class system —
interaction is you're a working class
person and you speak out and you're
chippy so who's defining exactly what is
chippy and I would say 
it's the likes of Boris Johnson and 
The Bullingdon Club, you know?


Exactly it's so, it's so interesting,
 there's so many different labels and 
like I said incredibly honest and 
I think about you as a boy what
you must've been about six 
and you looked in the mirror and 
you didn't like what you saw 

Chris :
Yeah, I was very critical --
remember seeing photographs of myself,
and I was critical of my body-composition 
from a very young age; 
don't know whether that was to do with
my identical twin brothers -- I grew up
with identical twin brothers which 
think's can can make you compare, and say
"Well, where's my twin....?”
....might be
pop-psychology, but, yeah --

I think eating disorders are often about
Perfection, an unrealistic idea of 
how we should look, so I think perhaps 
it was going on there you can 
I was thinking "You can look better, 
you can look better pre-puberty, 
so it's -- no idea.


you were going to do that well look like
the drama of being a child we don't
really know what children are I've got a
six year old in a seven year old mmm 

Do we really know how they're perceiving
the world...? oh you doing especially no you
know you really really do it daily I
mean it could have Lincoln killed you
though yeah yeah yeah it could
it's incredible that you're here I mean
you forgot that sort of inner steel I
guess that may come from your dad
because he was like that mom and dad
yeah they were both born in 20s and the
30s
lived through the depression then free
war immediately post-war and there's a
food thing there of course you know
their attitude to food probably inform
my attitude to food what sort of
reaction have you had Christopher to the
book what people been seeing to you I've
been taken aback yeah because I get
stopped
obviously I'm used to being stopped in
the street about the acting work people
are now stopping me and saying thank you
for speaking about depression thank you
for speaking about anorexia dementia I
mean doesn't sound like there's a lot of
laughs in the book but I've tried to do
know it tried to do it in a human human
way and I caused a bit of a wobble a
couple of weeks ago with some of the
issues that are in the book the
intensity and doing things like this
talking about it on television I
understand that completely you do
because yes your weight in a sense has
been an issue on the show ya know we've
talked a bit not a law you know so
there's a pressure there and we spoke
earlier about I was being rewarded with
in the industry for looking a certain
way but to get that way I had to do so
which led to you know mental health
issues guys I mean if you just never you
know what you know what necessarily
taught me deeds in your book you never
know what's going on in other people's
lives
yeah you're really don't you've getting
no idea don't assume and I think when I
eventually I left the first series of
the a word and went straight to hospital
because they had a severe clinical
depression and I think that I've lost my
thread here but I think that has has
taught me to not assume know exactly but
not George I would never have known I
mean I love Thea 

It's coming back isn't
it you've just don't know it is in the
in the new year the third series yeah
and I loved your character dinner though
sometimes I want to become most women in
its life I know and it's such a good
series so well written in so so so later
but no idea that you were going through
all of that just no idea what was
interesting on the first series it
really started to manifest itself for
the first series that the the breakdown
yeah and what I noticed was when I was
on set and I put on Morris's costume and
all this sounds silly or moles but when
I put on Morris's costume I could do my
job
but then when I go back to the hotel
room at night that's when the insomnia
and the anxiety went through the roof
and I'd get through the night on little
sleep and it's that thing of the
importance of a job to people yeah my
job kept me going
so when you were him it's actually all
rain
pretending to be somebody else I mean
it's the the big acting cliche no
absolutely you talks about very movingly
about your dad and about how he had to
deal without same reason how everybody
else joined about him had to do with
that and the fact that your mom really
took heed off and the love between the
two of them yeah my mom cared my mom
cared for my dad for 12 years and she
always said the worst day of her life
was not when my dad died but when she
says when I had to put him in the home
but me and my brothers had to persuade
her to do that because the burden on
burden of care on carers they're
invisible really they saved this country
millions of pounds need you they get no
credit and so yeah mom cared for him for
for at least 12 years through the
variant stages and how do you know how
would you see you oh no if you had to
give yourself a heal to change yeah well
I did have a wobble couple of weeks ago
definitely the pressure of it and the
exposure of talking in this way I know
anyway about anybody but have I done
monetized my personal life and how's it
affected my mom and dad but I think
because I'm a parent mmm I
they Albert and Esme keep me very
focused and that's what happened to me
in the hospital that the consultant just
in Haslam said to me you know if if you
were to take your own life think of the
legacy that would create for your
children and that woke me up as did him
telling me explaining to me my brain
chemistry in the way that a surgeon
would explain somebody's broke yeah yeah
yeah he said you've been in fight off
like mold your brain is exhausted and he
actually he took the curse of it in the
taboo off mental health issues that's
one of the subjects of the book no it's
incredible it's just to take the taboo
or what exactly
you

Clever Children


“….Clever Children from
Common Homes like 
his, have to be — 
shall I say, separated  
— from Their Backgrounds….

I say nothing
controversial.”



"I'm not -- easily persuaded 
of a sorrow in the heart 
of A Butcher, carrying
-out his butchery.

This seems, to me, not
a very convincing Tale -

There is a certain... 
zest about The Job --
and I dare say, Henry VIII 
might have told you afterwards, 
how much he regretted 
sending these people
to The Block --

— Enoch Powell.





The Night Of The Long Knives: 1962.

BBC documentary written and presented by Michael Cockerell, 
about the most notorious cabinet reshuffle in the history of UK politics 
when the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked, with no warning, several long serving cabinet colleagues, 
including his Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Selwyn Lloyd.

Oh, yer on a JOURNEY, are yer?

Entitled streamer, harasses man on park bench.


Monday, 19 February 2024

Sunday, 18 February 2024

Chimes at Midnight



"Chimes at Midnight" (1965) Coronation


For the Orson Welles centenary, an excerpt 
from his 1965 Shakespearean mash-up, 
"Chimes at Midnight" (a.k.a. "Falstaff"). 
In one of his most colorful performances, 
Welles embodies the boisterous figure of Sir John Falstaff
who bore witness to the rise and fall of kings. 

In this scene, Falstaff encounters his longtime friend 
Prince Hal (Keith Baxter) at his coronation. 
The newly-crowned King Henry V, however, 
rejects his past life and associates.