When Michael Jackson Asked Out Madonna

Asked to review this book, which I was told was about encounters between unlikely pairs of people, I assumed it would be on the lines of Walter Savage Landorâ??s Imaginary Conversations. Craig Brown is our premier parodist, the best since the incomparable Max. Might his chatting twosomes include Cleopatra and Janet Street-Porter? The Marquis de Sade and Mary Whitehouse? No one could do that better, I thought; and by the end of it Iâ??d be writhing on the Axminster, to borrow a phrase from the late Alan Coren. I couldnâ??t wait to split my sides.