Has a few laughs, but didn't really get into it. Characters are pretty stereotypical: housewife who cleans ovens for fun, alcoholic posh woman, social climber, highly-strung neurotic woman, and so on. The anxiety over nitpicking rules of manners seemed pretty dated. Humour seemed a bit too reliant on getting the actors to adopt foolish-looking postures. The plot didn't really seem to go anywhere: the way they seem to be permanently trapped in their joyless marriages, rather than going through a succession of joyless marriages, was one the things that dated it.

The cast struggled valiantly with the poor material though, especially David Horovitch.

Got good reviews though so my opinion is probably wrong. Guardian. Times. Telegraph.

Restaurants
Went to the Mongolian barbecue in Covent Garden for the first. Gimmicky but quite fun. You take a food-bowl and a sauce-pot up to a buffet line, choose from a big bunch of meat, vegetables and sauces, label it, then the chef stir-fries it for you and the waitress brings it to your table.

Tastes pretty good and it's nice to be able to micro-manage it a bit. Place was chock-full even on a weeknight though, and there were pretty big queues at times, so you can spend time queuing. Not too pricey though. May go again.

Watching
Saw "The Kite Runner" at the cinema. Americanized Afghan man returns to the old country to redeem childhood sins. Liked it. Think it falls into the category of films that are better than the novels they were based on. The book tried a bit too hard to put Serious Issues around its extremely schlocky storyline: the film is unabashed about it and sticks to the focus. Still might be a bit too sentimental for some, but I liked it.

Web
YouTube videos for people who think swearing is funny: Fuck Planet Earth, Australian ad out-takes.

Books that make you dumb: most popular campus books charted against SAT scores.

Pics. Novelty guns. National types of beauty.