It might seem bizarre, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Believe it or not, then, bewildered reader, but Olivia Wilde used to be babysat by one of the greatest minds of contemporary times, who was - at the time - a close friend of her parents. Wilde addressed this little fact during a memorial service for the late writer, in which she said the following:
"The last email that Christopher wrote me said he may have accomplished a few things in life, but the most significant of which was surely having been babysitter. He was a wonderful babysitter."
Of her, Hitchens once said:
"With Olivia you could tell it was going to be the movies or stage or TV or nothing. Olivia sort of lived the part - very pretty, and, well, the Victorian term for it is headstrong. She wasn't going to be overlooked or ignored."
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
