The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
I splash out on holidays and scented candles – I’ve got one that my fiancee won’t let me light, so it’s just for show.
My Patek Philippe watch collection; or my cars – an Aston Martin and Bentley Mulsanne.
I spend most money on my garden.
A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
Olivia Williams, Rosanna Arquette, Robert Carlyle, Courteney Cox, Anna Paquin, Craig Charles
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