On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:35:07 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 08:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > 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
> I saw a globe production of this with Mark Rylance in drag playing a
> woman's part, as it would have been played in Shakespeare's time.

Oooh. Mark Rylance. He's done some very good work.

> I didn't
> enjoy it half so much as my sister who had studied it for her =Grade 12
> English.

Good point. I think I'll read it first.

Cindy Hamilton