Beeban Kidron Gives Rupert The Bear A Boner

Richard Neville's memoirs, Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties, are to be adapted into a film. Beeban Kidron is directing, Cillian Murphy will play Neville and Sienna Miller, Max Minghella and Emma Booth will also appear. The film drops the majority of the title, as you might well imagine.

Cillian Murphy really has the right eyes for a psychedelic film, so expect any tuned-in, dropped-out nonsense to capitalise on those dazzling peepers.

The film's focus will be the obscenity trial surrounding Oz magazine, during which Neville defended himself and the other two editors were defended by John Mortimer, Emily's old man. John Peel was called by the defence in the real case, and I'm curious as to who, if anybody, will get to cameo as The Greatest DJ of All Time.

Hugh Grant played Neville in a previous film about the trials, the BBC's The Trials of Oz. Peel was played by Nigel Planer that time - and spookily.