This week’s MSN DVD column should give you a sense of what I was doing in New York last week — chatting with Malcolm McDowell in honor of Warner’s new 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition of “A Clockwork Orange”. Lovely man, lovely movie; couldn’t have asked for a better day, truly.

Well, “lovely” probably isn’t the best word to use when discussing a satirical classic that involves a woman being beaten to death with a giant porcelain phallus, but it does have singing in it. And Beethoven. And tea.

So it’s a wash, I guess.