We saw "Gandhi" for our film class at 8:30 in the morning, which meant I had to be at the Ziegfeld Theatre at 7:30. I figured maybe that's why I was getting sleepy by the end of the film, but I didn't really find it boring. Sir Richard "Dickie" Attenborough was there to talk about it, and the main thing I remember was that some woman had told him to use "a moving light" to represent Gandhi rather than a mere human actor, and he told her crisply that "I'm not making a film about Tinkerbell."

Richard Attenborough is too nice to be a good director.

Haven't seen The Soloist, though I fear I might have to after the recent raves on this forum, but Less Than Zero remains my favorite Downey, with Iron Man an incredibly close second.

David Attenborough is a grande dame [sic] of British cinema and numbered among the great and good. Along with the likes of Alan Bennet and Stephen Fry, he generates the type of fussy affection that can lead to someone being labelled a national institution. Much like his films, he is amiable, worthy and not a little earnest. Though normally seen as virtues rather than faults, his instinct to be inclusive, his desire to be liked and his inability to see the worst in people, do not make for lean or edgy filmmaking.

He is also a Chelsea supporter.