Happy birthday – and lamentable death date – William Shakespeare!
Blackadder strikes back at the Bard for Kenneth Branagh’s interminable “Hamlet” (with amusing cameo by Colin Firth):
Rowan Atkinson, again, in an unrelated sketch about Shakespeare and his publisher, this time with Hugh Laurie:
“But all I’m saying, Shakey, is let’s just shorten this one terribly dull speech.”
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Happy birthday – and lamentable death date – William Shakespeare!
There is often the sheerest membrane between the Bard and pseudo-historical (or pre-historical) fantasy trash. And I’m not complaining. My favorite production of “The Taming of the Shrew” happens to star The Beastmaster.
“The Taming of the Shrew” with Marc Singer:
Marc Singer in “The Beastmaster”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7h7frRoAPk
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Happy birthday – and lamentable death date – William Shakespeare!
Here’s the enchanting fairies sequence from Warner Brothers’ 1935 film version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with a 15 year-old Mickey Rooney as Puck. Erich Wolfgang Korngold adapted the music of Felix Mendelssohn for the soundtrack. They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
Join me for “Picture Perfect” Friday evening at 6 EDT (with a repeat next Saturday morning at 6) when we’ll sample from this fascinating hybrid of a film score on wwfm.org.
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“Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day.”
We remember, Bill. Happy 450th.
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