One of the best performances, however, comes from Lauren Ward, who endows the journalist's photographer chum with a watchful acerbity that reminded me of Hollywood's Eve Arden.
Meanwhile, my chum with an interest in contemporary fiction and Mel Gibson loped down the aisle shouting, "Scottish novelist?" in way that led me to be both nervous and hurt that he hadn't remembered my face.
But Brick, the old man's favourite, has taken to the bottle after the death of a chum with whom he had some David and Jonathan relationship; and now shuns his wife, whom in some way he holds responsible for the collapse of the other "friendship".
Only sharks that are willing to scavenge follow the chum trail and if they find no food at the end then the shark soon swims off and does not associate chum with a meal.
"There was a bit of like a bat-caver kind of like goth-chick thing happening that she had when she was in her early 20s," Doucet said of McLachlan, their gifted and golden-throated Canadian chum with whom they hope to tour again after she finishes her next album.
