Yesterday's print version of the 'Evening Standard' illustrated it's story about gun laws in the US with the snap above. President Biden talking with Jimmy Kimmel on the latter's Live! show. A show that I had never before heard of, but which has been running for near twenty years, which probably makes Kimmel a more influential person in the US than the president. Almost certainly a lot richer.
That aside, the snap's joviality seemed quite out of place given the seriousness of the subject. Which is perhaps why, when I turn up the online version of the story this morning, I get a different snap. Maybe someone poked the Standard's editor.
PS 1: according to Wikipedia, the show's house band is Cleto and the Cletones, led by saxophonist Cleto Escobedo III, a childhood friend of Kimmel. Does a chat show have to have its own band to be taken seriously in the land of the free?
PS 2: in the margins, I learn about the Hollywood Masonic Temple, a rather grand building dating from 1921. Sold by the Masons in 1982, by which time it had become far too big for their dwindling congregation - a problem which is clearly not confined to churches. I remember the one in San Francisco, snapped above, a good chunk of which appears to be a car park.
References
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel. Born a Catholic, did quality time as a comedian. So he shares something with the President of the Ukraine.
Reference 3: https://www.standard.co.uk/. Complete with lots of advertisements from people like Tiffany. A disease which also afflicts the FT which I pay for. Maybe I can pay double to have them removed.
Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Masonic_Temple.
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