Kinky

Readers will be delighted to know that Alan Yentob appeared on the Copacabana beach of Rio de Janeiro with a 44 second intro to last night's film on the city, made by Julien Temple, under the Imagine banner. At least, it looked like Alan Yentob, shot from a wobbly, ascending drone camera. You wouldn't have bothered with a caption for a stunt double, would you ?

Last week Al made it to the Cannes Film Festival, where he was present again at the annual Charles Finch Filmmakers Dinner at the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap D'Antibes. Getty Images spotted him with film producer Jeremy Thomas. Jeremy is producing a biopic of The Kinks for BBC Films, directed by Julien Temple.  In 2010, Julien produced and directed Imaginary Man, an Imagine special on the Kinks' leader Ray Davies, presented and edited by Alan Yentob.

In 1983, Arena, editor Alan Yentob, showed a play written by Ray Davies, produced by Alan Yentob, directed by Julien Temple, starring Ray Davies, called "It's All True".