I like it, although Claire Danes was a little too old for Juliet
I haven't seen that version. But once you've seen the Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer version of R&J, nobody else will seem too old, ever again.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
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."
Fred Pete - Jun 17, 2008 11:18:16 am PDT #6388 of 28370
Ann, that's a ferret.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2008 11:22:49 am PDT #6389 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
We watched the Zeffirelli version in junior high. All I remember is Olivia Hussey's cleavage.
Volans - Jun 17, 2008 11:27:52 am PDT #6390 of 28370
move out and draw fire
We watched the Zeffirelli version in junior high. All I remember is Olivia Hussey's cleavage.
I showed this to my classes, and every showing, right on time, my neighboring teacher would appear as if by magic to watch that scene.
Toddson - Jun 17, 2008 11:29:15 am PDT #6391 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
When the Zeffirelli version came out I was in my teens ... and I wasn't allowed to go see it because of whatshisname's bare backside.
DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2008 11:29:27 am PDT #6392 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm trying to remember if they fast forwarded or if the teacher put her hand over the screen in the (in)appropriate place.
I do remember the song, too, though (so damn earnest), but, then, I was not an adolescent boy.
Ginger - Jun 17, 2008 11:31:08 am PDT #6393 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I still like A Midsummer Night's Dream and I've seen it staged many times by vast ranges of talent. I only loathed one version. I'm usually fine with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company's resetting of Shakespeare into mobsters, flappers, flower children and the like, but the one in which they made Puck into Oberon's executive assistant, glued to a phone and blackberry, was truly annoying.
Kat - Jun 17, 2008 12:11:48 pm PDT #6394 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
you teach my kids the victorians and I'll teach yours Morrison. No?
Hmmm..... well, given that my Victorians would be heavy on Carlyle and Darwin and light on Dickens...perhaps.
There should be a unit by unit teacher swap program.
In contemporary lit news, I'm reading the newest Junot Diaz books, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and I have to say I'm not loving it. Anyone else read it?
lisah - Jun 17, 2008 12:13:21 pm PDT #6395 of 28370
Punishingly Intricate
In contemporary lit news, I'm reading the newest Junot Diaz books, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and I have to say I'm not loving it. Anyone else read it?
I am reading it right now and absolutely loving it!
Kat - Jun 17, 2008 12:15:28 pm PDT #6396 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Really, lisa? I keep picking it up and putting it down and picking it up again. I feel an urge to finish it. The changing narrative voice is sort of offputting, and the one thing that remains true is my deep and abiding love for the badassness of Lola. But as a whole? It is so much slower than Drown was.
lisah - Jun 17, 2008 12:18:26 pm PDT #6397 of 28370
Punishingly Intricate
changing narrative voice is sort of offputting
hmm I was surprised by this (I thought the prologue was going to be the exception) but I am actually really loving it. Have you gotten to
Beli's story? In Santo Domingo?
I really, really love the mash-up of references. It feels very real to me. And I love all the DR history.
It's possible I'm just Full of Love these days, though.