No, I haven't read that book.
I have yet to see an Ophelia I really like.
Jessica is me. Except for the part where I have never seen an actorly "crazy" that I like. Ophelia should be off-putting, just when everyone trots out the bathos.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Nutty - Jun 17, 2004 10:04:29 am PDT #3465 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Lilty Cash - Jun 17, 2004 10:07:10 am PDT #3466 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Yeah, but that requires stomaching Ethan Hawke. The last time I liked him was in Gattica. I guess I already consider him to be so whiny that I had a hard time separating him from the role.
Hee, hee, hee. I know. It's like he found out he'd finally gotten Hamlet and just said to himself "Damn, I been playing that part since Reality Bites."
Maysa - Jun 17, 2004 10:08:16 am PDT #3467 of 10002
Definitly the Ethan Hawke version, then.
Except I found that version so deathly boring that I stopped watching it midway through.
ETA: I liked Kate Winslet's Ophelia.
Jen - Jun 17, 2004 10:09:07 am PDT #3468 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I saw it in April in Stratford-Upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it was amazing! Squee!
Kristin! Were you at the Swan? My mom and I took a trip in January to Stratford and saw All's Well, with Dame Judi Dench as the Countess. It was amazing. And Stratford is just beautiful.
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other....
guh
Lilty Cash - Jun 17, 2004 10:10:51 am PDT #3469 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Except I found that version so deathly boring that I stopped watching it midway through.
ETA: I liked Kate Winslet's Ophelia.
Maysa is me on both counts.
Pix - Jun 17, 2004 10:11:53 am PDT #3470 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Nope, not the Swan...what is it called, the main stage...The National Theatre? Is that right? It's right next to the Swan.
And yes, I loved Stratford.
Sheryl - Jun 17, 2004 10:11:57 am PDT #3471 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
I've completely blanked on the author--I'm really horrible at that--but there's a mystery series with Shakespeare in the early days and an actor buddy of his falling into situations and having to figure them out. You get to see Will cribbing lines from people and stealing their names and their lives for later works.
Would that be the Shakespeare and Smythe series by Simon Hawke, Connie? There's at least one other series I can think of with an actor who works with Shakespeare, and that's by Phillip Gooden.
Hayden - Jun 17, 2004 10:15:07 am PDT #3472 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm with Frankenbuddha: Throne of Blood is the best Macbeth on film.
deborah grabien - Jun 17, 2004 10:25:50 am PDT #3473 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Isn't that the one where Lady Macbeth is like sixteen? It's so dark and dreary.
Francesca Annis was born in 1944 - she's ten years my senior. In Polanski's version of the Scots play, she was 27. And naked for sleepwalking scene, all pure skin and flaming red hair.
Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2004 10:29:02 am PDT #3474 of 10002
brillig
Simon Hawke, yes! Thank you, Sheryl.