The 23-year-old actor says he wouldn't mind a role in the upcoming "Star Wars" entry -- even if he's never seen the previous films.
I didn't expect to place this latest Star Wars entry, its first "spin-off" in forty years, this high on my list, but there's no denying how effective it ended up being for me.
But watching Rey, the adroit and resourceful heroine of the latest "Star Wars" entry, go from rank outsider to lightsaber-wielding expert able to take on and survive an assault from Vader wannabe Kylo Ren strained even our credulity.
There's none of the Shakespearean space politics, enticingly florid dialogue, or experiential thrills of the best of George Lucas's "Star Wars" entries ("Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith").
Only by typing "Franklin D Roosevelt" and "Eleanor (Anna Rooseveltt," or reading the links on World War II entries, did I find the Roosevelts.
Drysdale's other entry, War Chant, never threatened and finished ninth.
I'm a huge fan of the Times's Opinionator series that is taking us day by day through the Civil War; today's entry, about how Frederick Law Olmstead used cartography as a weapon of diplomacy, is great fun.
In March, 2005, William Connolley, a climate modeller at the British Antarctic Survey, in Cambridge, was briefly a victim of an edit war over the entry on global warming, to which he had contributed.
Curiously, all three films deal with the fallout of conflicts in what used to be called the Third World, with this year's entry, "War Witch," a French-language film set in Africa.
"She was the first woman to write seriously about wine in Britain [and] did more than most to popularise wine after the Second World War" says her entry in Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine.
