once upon a time

Once upon a time, western icon John Wayne would swing by and always sit in the same booth tucked in the back, according to the proprietors.

He moved to Vancouver when he took on a starring role in the long-running US fantasy-drama series Once upon a Time.

A movie about a famous and, frankly, selfish actor taking stock late in life feels like the kind of exercise in self-reflective narcissism that, once upon a time in Hollywood, Oscar voters adored.

In one photo of a yellow parachute in the air, he wrote: "Once upon a time, an intelligent, sharp-witted man they call 'mysterious' parachuted into my life."

Neil Findlay was a Labour MSP once upon a time.