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John Barrowman interview, Scotland on Sunday

"The little boy, an angelic blond, is about three. He stares at Barrowman with the kind of look children often reserve for shop Santas: a mixture of rapt wonder and awe, tinged with a soupçon of fear and disbelief. Speech has deserted him. This is Captain Jack from Doctor Who and Torchwood!

'I fight Daleks, Cybermen and travel round the planets with the Doctor,' Barrowman tells his wide-eyed admirer with absolute conviction. What, says the father, did the little boy say he would do if he met Captain Jack? His son hesitates but Barrowman simply crouches down, opens out his arms to him and in a rush, the little boy wraps himself round him. 'Oh, thank you,' says Barrowman, 'that's much better than fighting aliens.'"

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In the interests of clarity and sanity the rest of this movie will not be in Polish

Recently rewatched the original 1942 To Be Or Not To Be with Jack Benny, back to back with the 1983 colour remake by Mel Brooks. Brooks' adaptation is extremely faithful in many ways, down to the shot-for-shot level in places; his major change is the addition of a gay character who has to be rescued from the Nazis. For me, as I suspect for many of us, this was the first time we learned that Hitler sent gay men to the death camps - thousands of them. (Lesbians were also persecuted to a lesser extent.)

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