Film: The Long Walk
Yester day, The Hideout was off to see The Long Walk , based on the short story by Stephen King , writing as Richard Bachman . It was actually the first thing he ever wrote, and deals with a dystopian future in which a walking contest sees the losers executed, and the winner achieve whatever he desires - for the rest of his life. Excellent book - was intrigued to see how they'd do with the film! We were seeing it in the Vue West End , meeting in Victory House beforehand - and of course, I booked to eat in Bella Italia again before that. And given that I'd be having chicken with garlic there again, I should really have had the pie on Saturday - ah well.. I was late for the bus - so was delighted, when I got to the stop , to see it was still stuck in traffic, further down! The driver let us on before the stop, saving us a few minutes more standing. Unfortunately, the traffic that had let me catch the bus then held...