Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 Where is the Rosalind of Katherine Waterston? Her Viola? Her Isabella, opposite the morally conflicted Angelo of Adam Driver. With, I suppose, the Duke Vincentio of Liev Schreiber. And why...WHY?...did she not play Cordelia to her father's Lear?

 I've long thought that Vidal would make a great model for a characterization of Jaques in As You Like It.

 Morrisey, of The Smiths, credited playwright Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) as his inspiration for becoming a writer. "At least 50% of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney."  In tribute, he often put her picture on the covers of his CDs.

   "So we are nearing the end. The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which, during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel, mechanically testing whether there was still plenty left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick reading, already downhill, and–O horrible! The heap of cherries, whose mass had seemed to us such a ruddy and glossy black, had suddenly become discrete drupes: the one over there with the scar is a little rotten, and this one has shriveled and dried up around its stone (and the very last one is inevitably hard and unripe) O horrible!" Vladimir Nabokov,  Invitation to a Beheading

 "A poem is the next best thing to silence."

 Keith Urban's first #1 song was written by Jane Wiedlin & Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's.

Roy Orbison practiced Transcendental Meditation.

 "I remember every library in my life as I remember my lovers, their smells, the texture of their skin, the taste, even the brightness of the air around them. Or the darkness. Yes, every library is for me like a woman, erotic, a creature of the dark, full of smells and textures, tastes."              --Jorge Luis Borges

 Jorge Luis Borges considered Robert Louis Stevenson the greatest writer in the English language.

"A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned." " un  ouvrage   n’est   jamais   achevé,  mais  abandonné.

 The Fountainhead is on. King Vidor, Patricia Neal, Gary Cooper,  And the, um, the "wisdom" of Ayn Rand.

 John Cleese and Terry Gilliam met while appearing in a West End production of the musical Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele. It was in the same production that Cleese met his future wife Connie Booth. The book for Half a Sixpence was written by Beverley Cross, later married to Maggie Smith.