On the front a boy with a tie and slick side-parting struck a classic pose, carefully pouring liquid from one test tube to another.
He claimed to have twice run away to the front as a boy, itching to fight the Germans.
She (Ms. Roberts again) is a Hollywood diva — but also, as she says, "just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her".
She (Julia Roberts, left with Mr. Grant) is a Hollywood diva — but also, as she says, "just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her".
Reversing round a corner in front of a boy you've got a ridiculous crush on isn't ideal but surely still beats geography.
When Barker was seven, her mother left home to marry a man who had also been in the First World War, dispatched to the front as a boy of fifteen.
My award for lines that ruin everything goes, as a tie, to Julia Roberts in Notting Hill for: "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her"; and Andie MacDowell's "Is it raining?
When Will spurns the advances of Hollywood superstar Anna Julia Robertss, "just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her"), slobby Spike talks sense into him with his insightful verdict: "You daft prick".
So maybe you're just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him for the time because you're frightened to tell him how you really feel, and fear rejection.
