May 19, 1989
After happy hour Doug and Mary and Gary and Nancy left for the invitation-only sneak preview of Indiana Jones at the Skywalker Ranch. Lucky bastards.
I went home and watched an incredibly depressing TV movie starring Ben Kingsley as Shostakovich.
Someone’s killed the General
Sheep, their shepherd gone
If only we Russian people had one neck!


And who would have possibly thought it in 1989, but, twenty-one years later, Ben Kingsley has now been in one of the starring roles in a massive, dazzling Hollywood blockbuster ‘Prince of Persia’ movie inspired by the games franchise – which all started right here…