At The Oldie's 75th-birthday party for the Queen Consort last year, Craig Brown asked me if there was still a star I craved to meet.
Without hesitation, I replied, ‘Elaine May.' She turned 90 on 21st April and she lives in New York. It might be possible.
In 1983, I watched her film The Heartbreak Kid (the 1972 version). I watched it in bed, more or less chewing the sheets, as a newly-wed falls in love with a girl other than his wife on his honeymoon. It occurred to me that, with such an enormous commitment made, this must sometimes happen.
