MoL is a big fan of crossword puzzles. Best clue this weekend, 13 across: Artist doing nudes? The underwear could go here (6,6). 25 across, just to drive Germans crazy, is a cricket clue: Look to make a cricket score? (6) [ANSWERS BELOW]
MoL went to see the Hannah Arendt film. The big philosophical question is do you get the “banality of evil” line out of the way early, like over coffee, or save it for later and the big grandstanding scene? What do you think? Otherwise a film of heroic smoking. Barbara Sukowa chain-smokes her way through the movie and in one moment does one of those cigarette gestures I haven’t seen in years, when you have it in your mouth ready to light and instead of moving the flame to the cigarette you move the cigarette in your mouth so it meets the light.
Answers are BOTTOM DRAWER and GLANCE (which is a look, obviously, and a type of cricket stroke).