I saw bits and pieces of a tape of a Taming of the Shrew with Raul Jualia and Meryl Streep that I really liked. She was amazingly good at physical comedy.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2010 2:29:43 pm PST #11096 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
juliana - Mar 05, 2010 2:32:47 pm PST #11097 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@
Amy - Mar 05, 2010 3:07:41 pm PST #11098 of 28344
Because books.
Did anyone mention Sarah Smith's Chasing Shakespeare ? Excellent book.
Even in nonfiction, you have books like Reviving Ophelia.
Also an album called Finding Ophelia by Jinny Kim, which I may have to buy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2010 5:40:26 pm PST #11099 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Prospero's Books and John Cassavetes' Tempest were both well-made, interesting films inspired by Shakespeare.
Amanda Bynes' She's the Man was not.
Kat - Mar 05, 2010 6:25:21 pm PST #11100 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Christopher Moore's book, Fool.
I had a running list of things that are almost perfectly Shakespearean, without really being a direct spinoff. For example, I Love Lucy is so much like Merry Wives of Windsor in many respects.
Strix - Mar 05, 2010 6:52:27 pm PST #11101 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
"Romiette and Julio" by Sharon Draper. A pretty popular YA book that modernized the story, but the plot is different Romiette is African-American, Julio is Chicano.
Pix - Mar 05, 2010 6:53:41 pm PST #11102 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.
Barb - Mar 05, 2010 7:18:40 pm PST #11103 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, and Romeo and Julie. Women's fic novel with the lead characters in their late fifties/early sixties. It was their children who were against the match.
Consuela - Mar 05, 2010 7:31:42 pm PST #11104 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.
Man, I love that book. Haven't read it in years; I'm afraid it won't hold up. I think it's a bit id-vortexy for me. It's all wrapped up with college for me, cause I went to Cornell for 3 semesters and knew a bunch of people who lived in Risley. It was a whole thing there, about the college experience I didn't have.
sumi - Mar 06, 2010 8:58:31 am PST #11105 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, the Hamlet in Croation speech from er.
(If it hasn't been mentioned.)