Two strange and funny bits

Courtesy of Snowmail, a mailing list by UK TV news presenter Jon Snow:

The virtuoso who forgot his name
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Guy turns up wandering aimlessly near a beach in a wet suit (that's a suit which is wet, not swimwear) on the Isle of Sheppey in southern England and he can't remember anything. Taken to hospital, all efforts to communicate fail - until a social worker gives him a pen and paper and he draws a piano.

A social worker then takes him to a piano in the hospital chapel, and the man starts unleashing a melodious concert for two hours. Was it the pianist who drove the man over the edge, or the man who drove the pianist over the edge?

Comedy at Cannes
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Finally, stand by for a wonderful and obscure Cannes film festival entry. Nicholas Glass reports on the Kurdish director who made his film in post-war Iraq. The film is about his brother's adventures during the Iran-Iraq war in 1981, but the director also had to re-create -- in the current post-US invasion Iraq -- scenes that evoke the Saddam era.

So, they get a big Saddam statue made and then cart it about for filming - and get constantly arrested as they tried.