"I have this idea for a project I'm doing in the desert, and it's going to show you how crazy I am, " he says, launching into a description of Lee Grant's house in the movie, specifically the "kind of amazing" Indian print and bamboo bedroom in which Warren Beatty, the house-call hairdresser, sleeps with Carrie Fisher, who plays Grant's teenage daughter.

WSJ: Going Modern, Staying Grand

At 9:00 A.M. in the Iraqi desert, where the thermometer has already crossed the 100-degree mark, a white Chevrolet Tahoe barrels along at 70mph north to Basra.

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And we're joined, I'm delighted to say, by Major General Patrick Cordingley who commanded the Desert Rats in the first Gulf War.

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I'm stood with an Egyptian materials scientist entrepreneur, in the middle of the desert, having been joined by a cowboy in a replica of a British Fifties car made from NASA technology.

BBC: Trick of the light: A California road trip

I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.

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I'm pretty sure Ann Mallalieu is my only Sunday Politics guest so far who's also featured on Desert Island Discs (where she chose Twist and Shout as her first record).

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