The Bosporus Star

If you pick a cat up by the scruff of the neck, it will hang there, for a moment, passively, as it once did as a kitten being transported by its mother. Before long, however, the cat, remembering it need no longer submit to such indignities, will struggle insistently, to be freed.

If you place an active baby into a plastic shopping bag and lift it by the handles, the baby will immediately curl up and become inert.

During the filming of Shōgun, the actress Yoko Shimada fell in love with the technician whose job it was to clip the microphone to the collar of her kimono.

★ I am against willful obscurity, and you might like to figure this out for yourself— here’s a hint, sort of... http://www.doctordog.com/catbook/cathand.html) —but if you want help to spot the pattern, just ask.