On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:47:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> 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.
>
But AIUI he's also a Shakespeare authorship denier.