nothing, really

I like finding intimate details about the real people behind fictional characters. Not necessarily the actual people who play the characters, and not intimate details of the tabloid variety. For example, Mike Newell must really love the song Love is All Around, because he uses it in Love, Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The writers of Friends must have some kind of attachment to The Velveteen Rabbit and lilies. Chandler's girlfriend Kathy loved the book, and a few seasons later it's his favorite book and Monica has him dress up as the velveteen rabbit for Halloween. Phoebe's mother's name is Lily; at one point she wants to get a tattoo of a lily for that reason, and it's Rachel's favorite flower. Director Neil Jordan and actor Stephen Rea may not have a high profile Q & U relationship, but they must share the same mutual respect and talent because they did two great movies together, The Crying Game and the End of the Affair. Such are the wonderfully useless observations that leave little room for so-called matters of consequence.