Almost immediately, he hit creative still water, finding it "frightfully hard to discover a new vein of material".
Given Scott Thomas has built a career on playing frightfully well-bred women – A Handful of Dust, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Gosford Park – it's unsurprising she found it difficult to flick her "bitch switch", as Refn gleefully calls it.
Munroe had disparaged students as "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners," "frightfully dim," "utterly loathsome," "The Queen of Drama" and "A.I.R.H.E.A.D". in her blog, which was meant for a few friends but shared on Facebook by a student who found it.
You're minded of the likes of Maureen Cleave, Edie Sedgwick or Pauline Boty on songs like Girl, George Harrison's cool but fierce Think for Yourself, and Norwegian Wood; on the latter the group find Scandinavian furniture frightfully exotic, and this is reflected by a wry vocal delivery and Harrison's quite foreign sitar line.
She had no love for her late father-in-law's residence, calling it "frightfully difficult" to run, requiring 14 servants, although the 1920 census return records only six living in.
Not only is it frightfully expensive to have a car in a city, but insurance, parking and traffic will kill you and eat significantly into any budget.
The constituent companies remained, as a head of the operating company once put it, "frightfully independent".
Don't miss out on Movie World's Fright Night, full of, you guessed it, frightfully scary haunted houses and themed rides.
The action--all of it frightfully genial--covers the high-flown tete-a-tetes from the first time the ladies with handbags confront each other to the last time.
