Reading All the Money in the World
More praise for All the Money in the World in this weekend’s Sunday Styles section of the New York Times:
Studded with tables, charts and sidebars, “All the Money in the World” is full of rags-to-riches stories and colorful anecdotes that make it as compulsively readable as best sellers like Michael Gross’s “740 Park” and Steven Gaines’s “Philistines at the Hedgerow.”
Considering whether or not to post about this reminded me of one of my favorite episodes of Blackadder, in Season 4:
George: You know it’s funny, but painting was the only thing I was ever any good at.
Blackadder: Well, it’s a pity you didn’t keep it up.
George: Well, as a matter of fact I did, actually. I mean [takes out pictures] I mean normally I hadn’t thought I would show them to anyone, because they’re just embarrassing daubs really, but you know, ah, they give me pleasure. I’m embarrassed to show them to you now as it happens, but there you go, for what they’re worth. To be honest, I should have my hands cut off, I mean…
Blackadder: George! These are brilliant! Why didn’t you tell us about these before?
George: Well you know, one doesn’t want to blow one’s own trumpet.
Blackadder: You might at least have told us you had a trumpet…
In video here.
All The Money in the World
