The Trevor Nunn-directed stage version of Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is terrific and pretty groundbreaking, from what I've read.
Walking I get. But power walking? Why not just run for a shorter time?
Angel ,'Time Bomb'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Mar 05, 2010 7:53:24 am PST #11031 of 28348
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sue - Mar 05, 2010 7:54:12 am PST #11032 of 28348
hip deep in pie
Songs:
Prospero's Speech - Lorena McKennit
Sister Moon- Sting
Innocent One - Michael Penn
Juliet - Royal Wood
Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straights
Polter-Cow - Mar 05, 2010 7:55:44 am PST #11033 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
the play, Good Morning Desdemona, Goodnight Juliet
The Canadian knows what I'm talking about!
"The Shakespeare Code." Hee.
brenda m - Mar 05, 2010 7:56:25 am PST #11034 of 28348
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Strange Brew!
juliana - Mar 05, 2010 7:56:39 am PST #11035 of 28348
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Olivier's Henry V was immensely effective at its release as a patriotic vehicle.
My Own Private Idaho is basically Henry IV
Hamlet has always been a good barometer of national attitudes toward intellectualism, insanity, and military actions. A completely sane Hamlet was only introduced in the nineteenth century.
Jessica - Mar 05, 2010 7:57:25 am PST #11036 of 28348
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Looking for Richard
erikaj - Mar 05, 2010 7:57:28 am PST #11037 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!
Deadwood, although it was only *described* as Shakespearean, but I think it counts.
-t - Mar 05, 2010 7:57:44 am PST #11038 of 28348
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think A Thousand Acres is a version of King Lear, but I've neither read the book nor seen the movie, so I'm not sure why I'm mentioning it. But I am.
Anthony Burgess
Thank you, I thought Burgess was right but could only come up with Meredith to go with it...
Ginger - Mar 05, 2010 7:58:28 am PST #11039 of 28348
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Several of Ngaio Marsh's mystery novels featuring Roderick Alleyn deal with theater productions of Shakespeare.
(As an aside, why would you ever go to the theater with Roderick Alleyn? It's like asking Jessica Fletcher over for the weekend.)
There's Forbidden Planet, of course.
The Shakespeare Lucinda reads with her Uncle Earle becomes the heart of Roller Skates, which is a truly wonderful book with one of the best explanations of tragedy ever.
There's the King and Duke in Huckleberry Finn and the St. Crispin's day reference in Buffy. In Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Dan and Una accidentally call up Puck by performing A Midsummer Night's Dream three times at the summer solstice.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 7:58:58 am PST #11040 of 28348
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Thank you, I thought Burgess was right but could only come up with Meredith to go with it...
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
And now I'm suddenly thinking about FDR's influence on Meredith's Penguin.