On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:55:26 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:45:29 PM UTC-6, GM wrote:
> >>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 12/7/2020 3:29 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Yeah, that's gotta be tough. Kind of hard to beat those Navy stories.
> >>>>> Speaking of which, today is December 7th. A date that will live in
> >>>>> infamy. Sheldon wasn't even a gleam in his father's eye in in 1941.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Smithsonian Channel right now is running "lost tapes" about the attack.
> >>>> It is history but certainly not what I consider entertaining.
> >>> I like a good war documentary now and then, but war *movies* are one genre I've never cottoned to...
> >> I don't like war, car chases, murders, explosions, superheroes, anything
> >> of that sort. The movie I most often recommend, and one that few seem
> >> to have seen is:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE
> >
> > Would it have killed you to post the title?
> >
> > A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999. I own a copy on DVD.
> >
> > Here's another good movie with Stanley Tucci:
> >
> > The Whole Shebang
> >
> > <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219408>
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> The best performance I have seen was at the Globe in London.

Naturally. The Globe, plus live is always better.

> Sis and I
> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
> Shakespeare's Globe.

The best Midsummer Night's Dream I saw was at the Wayne
State University student theater. Graduate students, for the
most part.

> As for movies of other Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice with
> Al Pacino as Shylock is fantastic. "Looking for Richard" (about Richard
> III) also with Pacino is worth looking for.

We've seen both of those.

I'm fond of Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing. Whedon's, not so much,
even though I'm a big fan of most of his other work.

I should see if I can stream Trevor Nunn's 1996 Twelfth Night.

Cindy Hamilton