Yeah, and Beatrice is played by a boy pretending to be a girl (who in the play pretends to be a boy)....

A driveby to post a "Buffy" related UnAmerican story: last night my roommate was watching tv and I was half asleep next to her. There is an Israeli humor show (quite a good one, too) that is ending in a few weeks, and they're broadcasting promos for the final 'special collection' shows. I had my eyes closed, and didn't follow what was going on on the tv. Suddenly I realized I know the music they're using, in the promo, as background, but the Hebrew words the announcer used didn't seem to go just right with it, it didn't belong there - it was no other than the end credits for "Once More, With Feeling"! Without the singing "Grr Argh" in the end, but definitely the end credits from the musical.

Now, it was the same channel (and company) that used to broadcast "Buffy" (for the first 3 seasons), and the same company owns the channel (for which you have to pay extra on top of the cable payments, so I don't get it, and this is not a whine-y post, so I'll stop), that shows BtvS 5th season now (no "Angel"). But it was quite a surprise.

And now to work some, then cook, clean, and then rest because it's shabbat. Shabbat Shalom!

[Edit upon reading some posts back and actually trying to take part in the conversation: I really like "Much Ado About Nothing", and not just because I can say to myself, when I return from a bad blind date: "Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!" and think I may be Beatrice-y for just a couple of lines.]

[Another Edit: 4+5=7+2=9]

Sorry, but any movie that gives me leather-panted Denzel on horseback can be forgiven.

Major wrod.

Sorry, but any movie that gives me leather-panted Denzel on horseback can be forgiven. And the Keanu-oiling scene was good until he started talking.

Leather-panted Denzel on horseback not achieving Emma Thompson. Glhglhglhglh.

I actually had moments of liking Keanu in MAAN. He skulked nicely. But, as has been pointed out? He also spoke. Luckily, since I'm mellow about the comedies, I could just sort of go lalalala and concentrate on Ken, Emma, Denzel, and Miss Beckinsale, who is adorable. Oh, and Michael Keaton, just a weeeeeee bit over the top as Dogberry. Beetlejuice, as written by Shakespeare - yowsa!

Damn, I'd forgotten that this film gave us the Ben Elton-Michael Keaton combo. Now that was surreal. (Ben Elton v. well known in the UK as stand up comedian in the lefty political commentator/observer of the human condition type, who has also written various books and plays now. But who really was the last person one would have expected to have acting with Ken'n'Em'n'Keaton. In fact, the whole damn film was crammed with unlikely people. As was Branagh's Hamlet, which featured Ken Dodd as Yorrick in flashback. (Ken Dodd being ye olde Music Hall type entertainer.)

t /OT rambling

I like Ben Elton. A lot.

But I lurve Eddie Izzard. Can you see him as Dogberry?

Billy Crystal gave the only funny Gravedigger performance I've ever seen. Hats off to him.

For any UK-istas with Sky, apparently from Monday they'll be showing Buffy from the first ep at noon every weekday. Which is a good thing. VCRs at the ready, methinks.

And don't forget that Firefly starts on Monday too on the SciFi channel!

Yay!

I've already bribed/cajoled/threatened my family into letting me have the front room so I can watch Firefly. Damnable digital only being on one tv! They can bloody well watch Eastenders upstairs. That's the theory, anyway. In reality, there will probably be some selective, yet convenient amnesia come Monday night.