I agree with my old comrade on the Andrew Lloyd Webber beat, Mark Steyn, that The King’s Speech was not a classic for the ages, but it was damn good and it had one thing going for it that made every one of us Industry folk in the scribblers department, of a certain age, rooting like hell for it:

The screenwriter, David Seidler, is 73 years old.

He graduated from Cornell in 1959.

The other night, Mrs. Kahane and I were at a screening of a forthcoming picture. Taking a question afterward, the writer said he first began working on the script 20 years ago.

Welcome to Hollywood, kids.