We watched it, we spoke to him, we met each other – he's a good boy, a young boy but plays an important role at Red Star, who are the best team in Serbia.
You can watch it live here, he's speaking in English.
"People might criticise you for watching it," says Dunlop, speaking from his home in Orange County, California.
OK, I thought, let me save what I've got written and watch him speak.
The difference was that this time I was watching it from behind, so to speak, and near at hand, so I spotted a fresh wealth of luxurious detail, like Ms. Boudreau's very slow descents from half-toe to flat foot and the lusciously gradual archings-back of her head and upper spine before she allowed herself to fall back into Mr. Collwes's arms.
Through watching him speak, Nigel has given me confidence.
But watching him speak and talking to him afterwards, that seems to be a misreading.
"Oh, I remember actually because I went to watch them speak and it was brilliant," he says.
I have maintained, to some degree, that little boy's visceral sense of tragedy in the face of death, at the sight, for example, of a little robin gasping its last breaths as blood pulsed out of the BB gun hole in its throat while my friend Joe, who had shot it, watched and spoke about it with an exaggerated sense of bravura as the small bird died.
It's impossible to watch Takei speak and not feel some sort of happiness.
