To be pretentious or not to be pretentious...

Late last year, How Ridiculous was lucky enough to see a performance in York of the production of 'Hamlet' which has just opened in the West End.

HR must confess to a great regard being excited for the Prince - or at least the actor who played him - so it was with great delight that How Ridiculous read the article about him in the Culture section of The Sunday Times.

So ripe in wonderful lines from both interviewer and interviewee was said article that How Ridiculous quotes some of them here.

Interviewer: 'Sir Tom...seemed as mesmerised as any cab driver or accountant might be to find himself in row G, watching his boy doing the big one.'

Interviewer: 'He may not have his father's self-deprecation and Hampstead manners...'

Interviewer: 'Stoppard [senior] left Miriam for Felicity Kendal, about whom Ed is always charming'.

Interviewee: 'There are times when I wish I'd been brought up on a council estate, or witnessed people being massacred in Eastern Europe as a child.'

Reflecting on his childhood Ed commented: 'Really, it was just 'Say hello to Mr Pinter before you go and play with your Action Man.''

Ed continued: 'Harold Pinter said my father was the only person who voted for Thatcher who he actually liked.'

And then in many ways the piece de resistance: 'My parents don't do nepotism and neither do I.'

As a dear friend of How Ridiculous's commented in a text exchange about the article: 'I want to s**t down their pious necks!'