Another day, another lack of dollars… I went through some more junk that I had packed without bothering to go through before I moved, and I found my old passport. Damn I was skinny. And that shirt — OMG, I had so many tacky shirts in 1981. I’d had them since the 70’s; they were all of that fake silk “Qiana” stuff; I wore them with jeans. Anyway, you can see by my face that I was really skinny back then. Sigh. Maybe I’ll scan the photo and upload it before I send off the old passport so I can get my new one. (Yes, I still plan to get a new passport before the year is out and go to Europe before the place completely succumbs to Mohammedanism. Somehow…)
Oh by the way, some of my readers mentioned the version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with John Cleese playing Petruchio. Well, kiddies, guess what I got in the mail from Netflix… I also have the BBC version of Hamlet from 1980 starring Derek Jacobi, which is so far my favorite version. So I have things to watch. See you later.
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June 5th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
With that Hamlet version, I just couldn’t get past the thought of “Oh, no, it’s Claudius vs. Sejanus again!” And mad Ophelia frenching her brother? Ick.
Olivier for me, even with the liberties he took with the play.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I like the Olivier one too. I’ve also got the recent “updated” Hamlet 2000 with Kyle McLachlan and Ethan Hawke on the dvr but… I’m afraid to watch it. I still haven’t completely recovered from the Mel Gibson version…
June 8th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Andrea, glad you got hold of that one. It really is good.
MarkL
canberra
June 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I know it isn’t Shakespeare, but have you seen John Lithgow as Don Quixote?
He was brilliant. Well worth watching.
June 8th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Nope, not me. I’ll see if Netflix has it.