Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 "Good taste is a disaster."

 

 

 Dear Streaming Service, I don't want to listen to the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th, followed by the 1st of Brahm's Tragic Overture, followed by Dvorak's 3rd Bagatelle, and then Non Piu... Anymore than I want to listen to To be or not to be, followed by Sonnet 30, followed by The Phoenix and the Turtle, topped with fragments of the Apocrypha... Thank you for your time.

In the 1983 film, the character of Ben, the eccentric beachcomber, was played by Fulton Mackay. In the musical version, opening in Chichester in October, the role will be played by Hilton McRae.

 

 David Bowie & Iggy Pop

  In the early Nineties, I was fortunate enough to see the great Stephen Dillane as Prior in Angels in America and a year later as Hamlet. I only just realized that it was his son Frank who played young Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

  Actor Bradley Whitford                       Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford

  Between shooting The Godfather and The Godfather part 2, Coppola shot The Conversation.  In themiddle of writing Miller’s Crossing, the Coen Brothers took a break and wrote Barton Fink.  After filming the beginning of Cast Away, with a slightly overweight Tom Hanks, production stopped for a year, giving Hanks time to get down to his desert island weight.  Robert Zemeckis directed What Lies Beneath during the hiatus, then finished Cast Away.  In the midst of his 40 years working on the tomb of Julius II, Michelangelo stopped for four years and knocked off the Sistine Chapel ceiling.  In 1984, Cynthia Nixon appeared in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway on the same night, starting the evening with act one of one play, then walking two blocks to the other theater for the second half of the next. I myself have had to take a nap while writing this.

 

 "I'm bored to death with talk about acting. I'm bored when painters talk about painting or dancers talk about dancing. Every second that an artist is talking about HOW it is done, they are NOT doing it, and that, to me, is horrible and enraging. Actors talk about acting when they're unemployed and bored and poor, and they don't seem to know that the talking keeps them unemployed and bored and poor. If you want to know what I think about acting, come and see me act. I'll play for the damned tickets myself, if only to prevent another conversation on how it's done." --Colleen Dewhurst

 

Hermione Granger is very concerned about the treatment of the dragon in Gringott's, but doesn't give a rip about the dragon who gave his heartstring to provide the core of her wand!

 They actually ADVERTISED that the Hells Angels would be security for the event.

Wine comes in at the mouth Love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Until we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.