Future Shock

I suppose there are people who can’t resist logging onto Web sites that let them peek at events a year or more ahead, but I choose to remain in my cocoon of the present. I find I really have to protect myself, though.

Leafing through a British magazine, I saw some photos of TV stars at a big event. Several were from EastEnders, and I was surprised to find that three out of four were new to me.

Shane Meadows, the U.K. director of the film, A Room for Romeo Brass, spoke about EastEnders at the Toronto Film Festival last September. The burly Nottingham bloke, who was thrown out of art college, drama college and photography college, praised the show and said EastEnders had inspired his own work. He was, he added, eager to get back to London to see what the Mitchell brothers were up to.