'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
How on earth did he manage not to mug for the camera?
He's playing Pirelli. Mugging for the camera is exactly what he should be doing.
All this talk of Sweeney Todd reminded me that the complete 1979 Broadway cast recording (as opposed to the Highlights version) was supposed to have been re-released this year, and yay, it was!
AWESOME. I only have it on cassette tape (and no longer have a tape player...)
My parents had a copy of the full soundtrack album, which almost certainly got drowned in Katrina. I wonder if they want a replacement.
I bought a copy earlier this year off eBay. (Oooh, the Into the Woods soundtrack is back in print too!)
Bonus information about the Original Broadway Cast: Victor Garber! As the callow youth Anthony.
All this talk of who should and should not do musicals reminds me of seeing Sting the the Three Penny Opera at the National Theatre. The good news was that I was on a very. important. first date, so I was distracted. The bad news was that Sting, while good at his day job, should never have been talked into doing a 'big show'. He made everyone in the audience feel as if THEY could have done a better job.
I fear I'll have to wait for the dvd of Sweeney Todd.
And I sure hope Tim Burton reads the quite kindly delivered open letters to him up thread. I love the notion of the auteur's stable, but he needs to make a choice between the actors and the roles. Pick great things for them, or pick great things and populate them with the right people.
One of the funniest things I ever heard on television:
"We now return to Dune, starring Sting."
Speaking of Victor Garber, also on my stack o' stuff to buy on Sunday is the DVD of Godspell, with an extremely young Garber as Jesus (also with Lynne Thigpen, the only other "name" in the cast). I have it on tape but am trying to replace most of my tapes with discs instead.
with an extremely young Garber as Jesus
And a Canadian white man's 'fro.
And a Canadian white man's 'fro.
I do the hand-wavey "it was the '70s" excuse for that hair don't.
Sacha Baron-Cohen is a genius. Given how he disappears into his comedy characters, I am not surprised he's getting good notices here.
"We now return to Dune, starring Sting."
Bah! That is, I confess, what drew me to David Lynch's fever dream in the first place. I hadn't read Dune yet, I don't think and the film really spoiled me for it for a long time.
I do, however, have an unwholesome love for the two tv miniseries...which probably means I'm a blasphemer or something.
I have two Dune audiobooks on deck...looking forward to them as well.
the staged production starring George Hearn and Angela Lansbury
I own that! On VHS. I should get the DVD, no? Sweeney and Forum are the only Sondheims I like, but I adore them to pieces. I was very sad that I couldn't go to the revival at A.C.T.