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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Notes on Recent Movies
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: If you’re like me, you don’t get around to seeing “the year’s best movies” until several months into the subsequent year. In case you’re wondering (and I doubt you are), of the 2015 releases that I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Adam McKay, Adele Haenel, Alex de la Iglesia, Andre Techine, Carmen Maura, Carol, Carolina Bang, catherine deneuve, Chi-Raq, Christian Bale, Crimson Peak, Guillaume Canet, Guillermo del Toro, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In the Name of My Daughter, Justin Kurzel, Love at First Fight, Macbeth, Marion Cotillard, Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Samuel L. Jackson, Shakespeare, Shu Qi, Spike Lee, Steve Carrell, Teyonah Parris, The Assassin, The Big Short, Thomas Cailley, Todd Haynes, Witching & Bitching
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Alas, That They Are So
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: DUKE ORSINO Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in … Continue reading
Weekend Read
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Our friend Lloyd’s final project before his death was an adaptation of a spec script he wrote during his Hollywood days that has just been published on Kindle: Las Vegas in the 1950s — a glamorous black chanteuse . … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies, Music
Tagged Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Las Vegas, Lloyd Fonvielle, pulp fiction, Shakespeare
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Tumblr Du Jour: PopSonnet
Eddie Pensier writes: From PopSonnet, whose author recasts well-known songs in Shakespearean iambic pentameter. Link via Maggie McNeill.
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Humor, Language
Tagged bon jovi, iambic pentameter, livin on a prayer, maggie mcneill, Shakespeare, sonnet
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Juxtaposin’: We Happy Few
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Film, Henry V, Juxtaposin', Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, movies, Shakespeare, St. Crispin's Day
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“Much Ado About Nothing”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Whenever I see an interview with Joss Whedon I experience a slight urge to throw up. Yet I’ve enjoyed several of his projects. I thought his recent stab at “Much Ado About Nothing” was pretty good. … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Amy Acker, Film, Joss Whedon, movies, Much Ado About Nothing, Nathan Fillion, Romantic Comedy, Shakespeare
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Venice and Lawyers in Vegas
Blowhard, Esq. writes: When it comes to traveling, my dad would say it’s a waste to spend a lot of money on a hotel room. “What’s the point? You’re gone all day. All you do is sleep there.” Sensible advice, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Law, Photography, Travel
Tagged arbor gates, blondes, conventions, Disney, fatherly advice, Imagineering, Las Vegas, lawyer-assholes, Michael Almereyda, phototour, Shakespeare, The Palazzo, Venice
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