Derren Litten

Jindy and I went to see the new Oliver Stone film 'World Trade Center" this evening. It doesn't open until the end of the month in the UK but this was a special BAFTA screening with a question and answer session with Oliver Stone (the director/producer) after it. I'm not a film critic so I'm not going to put a review of the film here but I will say that I thought it was amazing. Even more amazing was that joining Oliver Stone for the Q&A was William Jimeno, one of the NY cops who survived the 220 storey building falling on top of him (astonishing as that sounds) and who is portrayed as one of the leading characters in the film. I was worried that the film was going to be heavily political but it isn't, it's just about two guys (and their families) and how they were affected by the attack on NY on 11th September 2001. Other news just in... Kevin Allen, diretor of my new TV series is in Spain scouting for talent; we (or rather just he at the moment as I am still in the UK) is looking for a female singer/comedian to play the part of the compere/karaoke host in the series. I love the fact that we are going to be using local talent for the show and am really excited about going out there in one weeks time. The fact that it now looks like we are going to be moving house at the end of October doesn't bear thinking about, I'm gonna be in bloody Spain! Oh well, they have these things called areoplanes and "time off", I'm sure it will all work out fine.