Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Ollie

Earlier this week, with Great Britain still shivering under the grip of its latest serial killer, American film director and screenwriter Oliver Stone demonstrated his bad taste and crassness when, during an appearance at the British Comedy Awards ceremony, he quipped: “It’s great to be back in England. I feel like the Jack the Ripper days are back. Nothing ever changes here.” Reports are that his “attempt at comedy was met with jeers and gasps of horror from the celebrity audience.” No surprise there.

Meanwhile, speculation persists that the recent murders of five young prostitutes in Suffolk, in eastern England, might have been inspired by a 1989 thriller by P.D. James, Devices and Desires. This theory, explains The Guardian, is based on the fact that “in the current case, all five victims have been found in remote rural areas after apparently being killed at night. In Devices and Desires ... a serial killer murders five women under the cloak of night.”