"He was basically this slightly rotund guy with gammy teeth, halitosis and a slightly perverse look in his eye," says Porter.
Officer Torres wore aviator sunglasses the whole time, while Postrelko sat two feet away from Matt during his deposition, staring him down with a perverse look on his face.
Though this decision did seem slightly perverse when, looking back over the year's reviews, I noted an unprecedented amount of coverage of pretty much anything but drama – in marked contrast to, say, 1999, when I started my TV-reviewing career and when the big drama of the week, whether a one-off mini-series or a soap episode, was invariably the cornerstone of a review.
Growing up in Rimini, Italy, he was taught by nuns dressed in the sorts of flaring wimples that so often were mirrored in his films; one was a bespectacled creature who in the director's perverse recollection, "looked like Harold Lloyd".
It may seem perverse to look a gift horse in the smacker.
It is "such a perverse way of looking at things", he says.
She didn't like the tax assessor who wanted to raise her rate, and informed him that her buildings' views to the park could be considered a valuable asset only if a person was perverse enough to enjoy looking at a comfort station.
So if you look like you have it all together by dressing sharp and looking ripped the perverse masquerade of prison life will let you pass, unacknowledged at best, and cat-called at worst.
At first the casting of Rowan Atkinson looks perverse.
Now the perverse Mr Chirac looks set to prove their original point.
