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Journey to Mars ... And find our breakfast on Pluto. I heard this song performed in London by a blind man in a pub on Portobello Road in the early 1970s, and remembered it during Neil Jordans new film. His hero Patrick Braden, known as Kitten, would have heard it at about the same time, and needed to, because he needed all the cheering-up he could get, and usually breakfast, too. "Breakfast on Pluto" tells the story of an Irish orphan, left on the steps of a priests rectory and raised by a str...

By Arthur Flynn With mediocre reviews for his films High Spirits, We’re No Angels and The Miracle Neil Jordan turned to a low budget film based on his original screenplay for his next project. With his other unsuccessful films Jordan found great difficulty in raising the budget for The Crying Game, originally titled The Soldier’s Wife. His friend Stanley Kubrick suggested that he should change the title. He believed that films with either religious or mythical titles usually deterred audien...

Like "Pretty Woman," a movie it resembles in subtle ways, "Indecent Proposal" is a fantasy about characters who are allowed to try out amorality and see if they like it. The screenplay is a cleverly contrived mechanism inspired by that old joke with the punch line, "We've already established that. Now we're talking price." In this case, the price is a million dollars.