So, Steven Spielberg is to direct a new version of Harvey? Following a drunk who imagines himself to be friends with the titular giant rabbit, Mary Chase's play was famously adapted into an entertaining if slightly creaky 1950 film starring James Stewart.

Back then,

delirium tremens

was treated as a bit of a lark. The new version (please, not Tom Hanks!) will probably be a tad more finger-waggy about booze. This is, after all, the director who airbrushed handguns out of the reissue of ET.