Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Worlds Best Opening Quote (of a movie)

Of course, I've seen her films and always thought she was, well, fabulous -- but, you know, million miles from the world I live in. Which is here -- Notting Hill. My favourite bit of london. There's the market on weekdays, selling every fruit and vegetable known to man...The tattoo parlour -- with a guy outside who got drunk and now can't remember why he chose 'I Love Ken'...The racial hair-dressers where everyone comes out looking like the Cookie Monster, whether they want to or not...Then suddenly it's the weekend, and from break of day, hundreds of stalls appears out of nowhere, filling Portobello Road right up to Notting Hill Gate....and thousands of people buy millions of antiques, some genuine...... and some not so genuine. And what's great is that lots of friends have ended up in this part of London -- that's Tony, architect turned chef, who recently invested all the money he ever earned in a new restaurant...So this is where I spend my days and years -- in this small village in the middle of a city -- in a house with a blue door that my wife and I bought together... before she left me for a man who looked like Harrison Ford, only ...and where I now lead a strange half-life with a lodger called...Spike!