ROSEMARY

Let’s begin with a controversial question, because we don’t flinch from that sort of thing on this page. Who was it who first suggested that men are reluctant to talk about their feelings? Whoever it was can’t have met many actual men. Certainly not recently.

It might have been the case in the days of black-and-white films that chaps were a bit buttoned-up, and perhaps found it difficult to express their admiration for Celia Johnson and similar young women in nice summer