magnetonic

Kenneth Branagh asked me once, 'Do you have any still water?'

I almost responded: 'Yes, but it's been sitting in this old tire all summer.'

Then I realised that what he wanted was non-carbonated water. As opposed to carbonated water.

So I handed him a tiny bottle of Evian. 'Here you are, sir.' And he was off.

Why I thought of this now, many years later, is beyond me. For the curious, I was working the bar in the Green Room of Roy Thomson Hall during the Toronto International Film Festival. I've forgotton what year it was.