SECOND HELPINGS

On Sunday afternoon, we screened the film The Second Time Around starring Linda Thorson and Stuart Margolin. It is a tender love story shot on such a shoe-string budget that Thorson wore clothing from her own wardrobe, including a fabulous Japanese-styled YSL robe.

The script is life-affirming, proving that love doesn’t have a best-before date. As I’ve always maintained: in your 20s, you can’t get your shit together. In your 30s, you get your shit together but you can’t lift it. In your 40s you lift it. In your 50s you sift it and in your 60s you shift it.

I haven’t gotten to the 70s yet.

Linda Thorson, moi and broadcaster Gloria Martin at the Second Time Around after-party at Monarch Tavern.

This from the rumours-of-his-death-have-been-exaggerated department. No, it’s not Alan Rickman. It is his doppelganger, producer Gene Mascardelli, Gloria Martin's partner, at the Monarch Tavern.