Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 Surely, it is time for Jimmy Carr to play Mozart in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus! Maybe with Stephen Fry as Salieri.

 Judy Collins left Stephen Sills for Stacy Keach, falling in love with him while doing Peer Gynt in Central Park.

In the new Geico ad, why does New Englander Captain Ahab speak with a West Country accent?

  "The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.' 

 

  In 1984, two films came out that Roger Ebert pointed out were essentially the same. Both about spoiled, over-sexed and potty-mouthed musical prodigies who wore the same costumes. And both were great!

 

Harmonia Rosales repaints classic artworks  to show God is a black woman Dazed Magazine article

  How long was he trapped in carbonite?

 

  “If you’ve done well in the business you wanted to do well in, it is your obligation to spend a good portion of your time sending the elevator back down.”                                                                                      -- Kevin Spacey, quoting Jack Lemmon

 The grave of Rudolf Nureyev is covered with a mosaic "carpet."

  Relaxing in a Viennese wine bar after a day of shooting on The Third Man, director Carol Reed and his cast were struck by the zither playing of Anton Karas, a local musician playing for tips. On the spot, Reed hired him to compose and play the score.  A score which Roger Ebert would describe as perhaps the most perfectly matched music to story ever. And would also inspire Nino Rota's score for Fellini's La Dolce Vita. .

                                                George Sand and Fran Lebowitz

  "Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library." - John Waters

  In The Green Mile,  The role of HARRY is played by Jeffrey DeMunn. The role of DEAN STANTON is played by Barry Pepper. The role of Toot is played by HARRY DEAN STANTON .

  Antidotes to Fear of Death Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: Sign up for Bookmarks: discover new books in our weekly email   Read more No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.

  Granny and I watched A Man for All Seasons last night. Tonight, we watched My Fair Lady. As Higgins marched around his study, I said "Granny, look on the wall behind him!" "Sir Thomas More!"

Still think it's odd that he film version of the musical Finian's Rainbow was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

 When you wake up in the middle of the night, thinking: "Which Mitford sister was a fascist?"

"How often was 'anon.' a woman?"                       --David Markson