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

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

On 12/8/2020 11:07 AM, 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.
>

When I live in Philadelphia it was a rite of passage to go to the live
shows at the Troc. Don't recall any Shakespeare though.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/photos-1...adero-theatre/

On 2020-12-08 12:27 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 12/8/2020 11:07 AM, 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.Â* The Globe, plus live is always better.
>>
>
> When I live in Philadelphia it was a rite of passage to go to the live
> shows at the Troc.Â* Don't recall any Shakespeare though.
> https://www.phillyvoice.com/photos-1...adero-theatre/
>


We have the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake. For years they stuck
to a mandate of Shaw and his contemporaries. That is infinitely more
interesting theatre than the 15th century poetry.

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

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

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.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:

>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:
>>>
>>>> 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.

So you believe in Shakespeare?

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 12:02:06 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
> >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:
> >>>
> >>>> 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.
> So you believe in Shakespeare?

************
Hey, you know what day it is?"
"Saturday."
"Well yeah," said Winter, "but it's also Groundhog Day."
"You believe in Groundhog Day?"
"I believe if every day were exactly like the day we met, that I wouldn't complain."
************

I think I'd better hang out of my helicopter after that.

--Bryan, who's favorite part of chick flicks is the chicks.

On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:01:57 +1100, Bruce wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:53:20 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
>>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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>
> So you believe in Shakespeare?

Of course! Like Evolution, the evidence is overwhelming.

On 2020-12-08 10:55 a.m., Graham wrote:
> On 2020-12-08 4:02 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>> A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1999.Â* 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. Sis and I
> had seats rather than standing in the pit of this replica of
> Shakespeare's Globe.
> 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.

I always had trouble with Shakespeare. Being a bit attention deficit is
part of the problem. It simply requires more attention and memory than
I can muster for a stage production. It's not like I never gave it a
chance. I once made a really bad choice for an elective course, English
Drama to 1642. I bit off more than I could chew on that one.
Attention deficiency is even worse when reading plays than when
watching. IIRC we had two week for Shakespeare and about a half dozen
works to be covered in that time.

One of my worst drama experiences was seeing Henry VII performed at the
Stratford Festival. I think the lead actor was trying to beat his speed
record. Holy crap he rattled his lines off so fast I could hardly hear
them, never mind processing them into something meaningful.