Dub star Rushe offers redemption from the norm

Sometimes it happens at a press conference, sometimes it occurs in a post-game scrum.

Occasionally, the event takes place when a group of reporters are buttonholing somebody at a product launch.

After a particularly stunning answer, one calculated to stupefy a water buffalo, a colleague from another newspaper will lean in and whisper to me: “Why don’t you ask him what he made of Malick’s Tree of Life?”