So in New York, that's the group I fetched up with, the musical theatre crowd.
On the road, he fetches up with Blunt, who plays a thoroughly messed-up woman calling herself Mike, short for Michaela, and it seems she's pretending too.
Stella fetches up with Mac, a comfortable older man, whose diverse domestic talents include making "special bolognese sauce with chicken livers".
She passed through 17 boarding schools until she fetched up with a guardian in New York, and eventually returned to Montreal aged 18.
A tax collector named Joseph Pannone (since jailed) was his initial contact, and through him Freitas fetched up with Ead, with whom he sought to arrange the purchase of some vacant lots owned by the city.
Also idly taken by the name Kensington, he fetches up with his telephoto lens and an eye for a pretty lady, and is soon leching at attractive local Lydia, who no longer bothers with her disguise of brown contact lenses.
She fetches up with ageing cowboy Gay Langland, played by a grizzled but sympathetic and charismatic Clark Gable – perhaps an older version of the cowboy Kirk Douglas played in Lonely Are the Brave.
Her fantasies turn instead to what presents she'd like if she fetched up with a billionaire (an iPad. An Audi. No, a Saab! Nope, I feel cheap. OK, OK, just the Saab, and some clothes, ooh, a bikini, for $541 … what a terrible waste, and yet how pert my breasts look).
The first sale last year raised almost €12m, with tomes fetching up to 10 times their estimated price.
Again, the feeling was that Woody Allen's latest would fetch up in Cannes, especially with its south-of-France setting.
