After Deadheading the Roses, I asked her what she thought Daniel had learnt from her about his trade. She looked astonished. “Nothing at all. I’m just not in his league,” she replied.

His dedication of his award to her on Sunday night suggests he may think otherwise.

- Daniel Day-Lewis: the acting gene came from his mother, Telegraph.co.uk, February 25, 2013.

3. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn reunite after 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers in this piece which is more squarely aimed at a wider audience.

This time the pair play Nick and Billy respectively, a pair of successful, gift of the gab watch salesmen who find their jobs gone after their company is shut down. So, with nowhere to go, Billy finds a chance for them to be part of an internship programme at Google.

But as they are by far the oldest people on the course, they stick out like a sore thumb - and when they're teamed up with the less successful rejects to fight it out in a mental “Hunger Games” quest for a job at Google, it looks like they’re out of their league....

- The Internship: Movie Review, TVNZ.co.nz, June 12, 2013.

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