Ep 87: The Cold Opening

Sales notes that Crabb seems to know an awful lot about Cocktail, a film she claims to hate so much. Crabb admits that she retains reprehensible details of worthless projects. [Cue: Kokomo sing along] Tom Cruise, Steve Jobs and Brian Mannix all get mentions, which leads to the question: Why do we accept that geniuses and celebrities should be able to act like monsters!?

• Crabb’s ‘busy’ outfit - Selfie

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - by John Carreyrou

• Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018) - starring Tom Cruise

• Tom Cruise Forces James Corden to Skydive - via The Late Late Show on YouTube

• Growing up Jobs - by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Vanity Fair, September 2018)

• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - by Walter Isaacson

• 30 Rock - Created by Tina Fey; Starring: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan

• W1A - Ian Fletcher starts a new chapter in his life as head of values at the BBC - Comedy starring Hugh Bonneville

• Salman Rushdie telling Larry David about "fatwa sex" from Curb Your Enthusiasm - via Sky Atlantic on Twitter.

• Chat 10 Looks 3 Live - Melbourne 16 November

• Celebrities Read Texts from Their Moms - via Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube (Including Tony Hale).

• Before the Fall - by Noah Hawley

• Phantom Thread (2018) - starring Daniel Day-Lewis

• When is The Crown season 3 on Netflix? Who is in the cast, and what is going to happen - (Radio Times, 2018 Aug 10)