1 Vidocq inspired Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, possibly Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, and is mentioned by Herman Melville and Charles Dickens! I would like to follow in the footsteps of such a great list of classical authors. 4 Mahashivratri and the lead up to 4/20 begins Dame Helen Mirren portrayed the Queen in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. She was also in 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and did voice work in HHGttG in 2004. 6 Alistair MacLean’s The Last Frontier has already been (loosely) adapted to film as The Secret Ways in 1961. I’d very much like to have Wellesian or Kubrickian auteur control over a version I make of the intriguing novel, which I read circa 2000. 14 I wonder which edition of The Salmon of Doubt I have. Will check when I remember this while home. 20 The Dam Busters – Pink Floyd The Wall movie – trench run in Star Wars: A New Hope