Someone else also complains (admittedly in jest) about the fact that they make laws that aren't supposed to be followed. If you drive at or below the speed limit, you're a roadblock, and if there's one thing experience teaches me (about which I really should post), it's that you can't trust any man to act rationally even about the slightest things. And, of course, if they expected us to follow the laws, they wouldn't allow the police to drive well over the speed limit and make random U-turns all the time (not just when actually chasing someone or get to a crime scene, when they're supposed to use the lights on the roofs).

They also had an interview with a couple of Oscar-nominee/winners. The oldest significant memory I have of Downey is when my brother and I were watching one* of those movie CMs where they list and show a bunch of stars at the end. When they said and showed, "Robert Downey Jr.," we both said, "as Al Pacino?" The hair and the lines around his eyes did it.

Anyway, the comment about blackface relates to yellowface (which I had just looked up the other day, don't remember in what context), which segues to something I coincidentally (only noticed because I happened to see it mentioned on the front page right before I left work) found in the paper. I guessed what it was from the blurb, but was somewhat amused by the fact that they gave that headline, considering the fact that it was about English society (which they didn't even mention). Still, when I looked it up, I found here that, despite the fact that the play itself makes no attempt at having anything to do with Japan (as exemplified by how I searched for the URL with the word that I thought I could spell the same way and that would be in the article, which happened to be "poo"), Gilbert actually tried to put accurate Japanese elements in the production. (Incidentally, this section is also interesting, particularly the fact that they didn't argue against one bit being sexist. . . .) My mother also disagrees with the description of Peterson as "fluent," although I don't know on what bases she makes that claim. (Considering that I had only taken two years, which doesn't get so far as to actually learn much of any Japanese, I wouldn't have known the difference when I had the chance to observe for myself.) In any case, I don't see any need to go to it, as there probably won't be anyone I would recognize except Peterson himself, and even if I do get to speak a bit of Japanese with him, I'd also have to let him régale his current students with tales of how entertaining I am.

*I don't remember what it was. I thought it was Zodiac, but the pictures don't look right (particularly the ones with glasses, which would have prevented us from getting that impression). I remember the shot was of him sitting in what looked a room in a home, looking at a three-quarter angle. Does anyone happen to have any idea what that would have been?