In the years since they have established a working routine whereby Tomalin writes in the house, Frayn in an office, and they only come together in the evening, for the exchange of tactful criticism and, on the evidence of the interview, affectionate insults.
O'Toole and Oscar winner Hepburn are superb as the grizzled, sarcastic regent and his cunning wife, locked in a never-ending exchange of venomous criticisms.
But neither showed signs of budging today, with exchanges of caustic criticism of each side's position.
This exchange of praise and criticism, experience and explanation, is characteristic of the online discussion forum, which overcomes to some extent the isolation of the Information Age by bringing people together to engage in the traditional interaction of legend telling.
Established in 1889, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, for instance, has a 126-year history of demonstrating that Islam promotes universal justice, freedom of speech and free exchange and criticism of ideas.
The current review of the structure of the stock exchange follows growing criticism of the exchange for attempting to simultaneously police and promote itself, a practice that other experts and institutional investors say poses an inherent conflict of interest.
Given the technical problems the exchanges have experienced, and the deluge of criticism heaped upon them, that's a much better outcome than could have been anticipated before Christmas.
Today and Thursday at closed-door meetings attended by the city's police commissioner and city and state lawmakers, there were heated exchanges and criticism of what many view as inadequate police protection and a criminal justice system that routinely returns violent offenders to the streets quickly.
Readers hoping for exchanges of constructive literary criticism are likely to be disappointed, which is a pity since, when they do occur, they are to the point.
Democrats are adding the exchange to a series of criticisms that have emerged in recent weeks regarding Mandel's management of his office.
