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Fay - May 09, 2003 9:58:49 am PDT #4575 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

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

deborah grabien - May 09, 2003 10:17:04 am PDT #4576 of 9843
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

I like Ben Elton. A lot.

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

Betsy HP - May 09, 2003 10:25:49 am PDT #4577 of 9843
If I only had a brain...

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

Jars - May 09, 2003 5:00:25 pm PDT #4578 of 9843

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.

Fay - May 09, 2003 5:02:53 pm PDT #4579 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

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

Yay!

Jars - May 09, 2003 5:09:09 pm PDT #4580 of 9843

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.

Betsy HP - May 09, 2003 6:49:23 pm PDT #4581 of 9843
If I only had a brain...

Sob. Y'all Brits are giving up wigs? And taking the drama out of the robes?

New Look

Next the Guards will be wearing practical uniforms that they could actually fight somebody postdating 1850 in.

Am-Chau Yarkona - May 10, 2003 1:03:42 am PDT #4582 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

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

I know. And yay indeed. But-- may I just take a moment to scream?

(White font for loud noise) AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Thank you.

(By way of explanation: Monday, 8 pm. Sci-Fi: Firefly. Sky One: Enterprise. I live in a household containing a dedicated Trekkie. I will be seeing Firefly when Sci-Fi repeat it on Friday.)

Leigh - May 10, 2003 9:00:02 am PDT #4583 of 9843
Nobody

Sorry this is so belated, uni has decided to eat me starting with my free-time.

I love your lecturer.
I have developed such an academic crush--which may, just possibly, have started around the time she mentioned Buffy in her analysis of the St Crispin's Day speech. The lovely Irish accent isn't helping either.

...someone really, really should write Claudio/Benedick. 'Cause it's canon. Um.

I haven't read the text so I don't know whether it's even remotely canon-esque, but I just went to see the Bell Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet and I swear Hamlet/Horatio was right there on stage. With the hugging and Hamlet imploring Horatio not to follow him into death and then the dying while clasped in Horatio's arms...*sigh*

moonlit - May 10, 2003 9:37:12 am PDT #4584 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

Leigh, I know of what you speak, having seen Bell Shakespeare do Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, Lear, and Othello, if my memory serves me correctly. Bell does a very good job usually, but I do have to concede that the best ever live Shakespeare performance that I have attended has to have been The Royal Shakespeare Company's Richard the Third, featuring the amazing Antony Sher. My friend and I were openly sobbing after the Coronation scene (along with the majority of Concert Hall patrons). Absolutely amazing performance.

Edited because parentheses usually come in pairs.

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