Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

I want to start a theatre company called  "Inexplicable Dumb-Shows and Noise."

 Barry Keoghan needs to play Christy Mahon!

Playwright Robert Patrick posted this photo with the comment: "Sometimes you stumble over a photo of her in which she is so beautiful you just gasp." This was then reposted by the wonderful Miriam Margolyes, saying: "Another, more important MM."

 In the Billy Bob Thornton movie Sling Blade (1996), the character of Karl (Thornton) visits Vaughn (John Ritter), to ask for his help. When Vaughn answers the door he is holding a book in his arms. You cannot see the cover. You cannot see the title. The book is never mentioned. Only the corner of the book is visible.

 Ntare Mwine should play young Lou Gossett, Jr. in a biopic.

The Telegraph incorrectly printed that Jerry Springer was born in East Finchley Tube Station during World War II. It was Highgate.

 "The rest of the dominoes will fall like house of cards. Checkmate."

 

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was on tonight. Nice to see Ke Huy Quan as Short Round a few days before he gets nominated for an Oscar for his work in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Five years ago, I posted the following: "To my mind,  each of these describes the same world: de Chirico, Brancusi, Gaudi, the 1973 Czech film Fantastic Planet, Borges' “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” Satie ’ s   Trois Gymnopédies,  Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights,  Gulliver's Travels ,  Cirque du Soleil ,  Brian Quinette’s Invisible Library,   both the  Codex Seraphianus  and the Voynich Manuscript, the library at Alexandria, the game of chess and the numbered (but not the titled) chapters of Calvino's   If, on a Winter's Night, a Traveler,  And Barcelona" Over time, I have added The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy and Shakespeare's The Tempest. And today I add the Antikythera Mechanism.

Ted Mack was born in Greeley CO and died in Tarrytown NY. Significant cities in my life. Ted Mack. Who knew?

 1/16/14 Reuben Kincaid & The Professor

 According to William Safire, the phrase ' pusillanimous pussyfooters' was written for Spiro Agnew by Pat Buchanan, while Safire himself wrote 'nattering nabobs of negativism.' And no, 'Alliterative Agnew' is not alliteration. It's assonance.

 Slash's solo has always made me cry.

 "My soul's Idol..."

Apparently, this is also known as "Newton's Balls." Rude.

The screenplay for the 1948 Anna Karenina with Vivien Leigh was written by Jean Anouilh!

"By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down, yes, we wept..." "By Grand Central Station, I sat down and wept..." "By the River Piedra, I sat down and wept..."

 James Mason was Belinda Carlisle's father-in-law,

 The music for what is often called "Deutschland Deutschland uber Alles" is by Joseph Haydn?