i don't think eloise would have gone for adelaide. i was leaning out the window and i saw these two sweet old ladies coming through the gateway of the college, and one said mable, don't you just love history, it's so old? it is old, it is young at the same time. so this sort of kit toolization between the present -- crystallization between the present and the old struck me as a risky project, because i thought what one might do in the four films made for the bbc about shooting a couple, which will be followup films, we're going to be shooting the president on omaha beach on the 61st verse very of d-day, which if you can't find some of his most grand words on that particular occasion, then his gifts will have deserted him and i very much doubt they will, but what i -- i was also a journalist when i graduated from college, and was never quite sure which i wanted to be between doing abalard and adelaide stevenson, in a very, very small role, just a couple of days a week hired by a friend of mine who was working for the paper, i worked fo