While not exactly a film buff, Gordon Brown was touched when Barack Obama gave him a set of 25 classic American movies – including Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins on his recent visit to Washington.
Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem.
The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words "wrong region" came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or "special partnership", as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint.
Just how special will the relationship between Barack Obama and Gordon Brown be?A Downing Street spokesman said he was "confident" that any gift Obama gave Brown would have been "well thought through," but referred me to the White House for assistance on the "technical aspects".
A White House spokesman sniggered when I put the story to him and he was still looking into the matter when my deadline came last night.
Don Surber describes it this way:
I am not sure about the technology, but I am certain about the message to Britain from the new president whose father was born in Kenya under the British rule.
Payback’s are a bitch.
Obama’s gift gave the Brown 25 DVDs and the old middle finger.
Quite true.
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