Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Intrigued by the idea that both Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and the TV show Supernatural may have been influenced by  La Révolte des anges  by Anatole France. Angels leaving Heaven and falling in love, Satan replacing a disillusioned God only to become disillusioned himself, and 'children who wander..." Dissertations on a postcard please...    

In ninth grade, a friend and I went to the Ogden Theatre in Denver every Monday night for eight weeks for a Fellini festival! La Strada! La Dolce Vita! The White Sheik! Nights of the Cabiria! Juliet of the Spirits! City of Women! Ginger and Fred! Satyricon! Roma! Amarcord! 8 1/2! It was heaven!

Waiting for Godot' s first production in the U.S. was in Miami in 1955, starring Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell (replaced by E.G. Marshall before Broadway). It was promoted as "the laugh sensation of two continents!" The Miami audience of tourists didn't agree, many leaving at intermission.  It was fortunately better received in NYC. And FAR better received a few years later when performed in San Quentin prison. It inspired the formation of a drama group by the prisoners who went on to perform seven of Becket's plays.

12% of the earnings from Eric Carmen's song All by Myself went to the estate of Sergei Rachmaninov.

One day I'll be famous, I'll be proper and prim; Go to St. James so often I will call it St. Jim! One evening the king will say: "Oh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing. Next week on the twentieth of May I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day!

You know, I still feel bad for the waitress in the Take on Me video. Living on tips. Dealing with another dine and dash.

Sometime in 80s, there was a sitcom pilot. I remember nothing but one line, spoken by a guy being thrown out an apartment by his girlfriend. He refused to leave without a certain cassette tape. "I never go anywhere without my Boz!"

We have a screensaver set on our TV that shows Shakespeare quotes. I love it. However, for some reason they have set most of the quotes as if they are prose...EXCEPT for Shylock's "If you prick us, do we not bleed...," which IS prose! That text they have gone out of their way to set as if it is verse! As Shakespeare himself said: "FFS!"

The Loys: Mina & Myrna, love them both    

Benjamin Raspail was a French painter and politician. He proposed the legislation that established Bastille Day as a holiday in the Republic. Benjamin Raspail is also the name given by author Thomas Harris to Hannibal Lecter's final victim in the Silence of the Lambs.

"At his place on the Boulevard Raspail I was greeted by Mrs. Joyce, and although there was a legend that Joyce's eyes were weak, it was evident that he had used eyesight in choosing his wife." --Robert McAlmon,  Being Geniuses Together