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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Did anyone else watch the brilliant Alan Bennett play last night on BBC4? Superb stuff; like a strange mix of MR James, Oscare Wilde and John Le Carre. They're also currently repeating Bennett's sublime TALKING HEADS series. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.106.220.19 |
Talking Heads was a wonderful set of plays - some of which were quite moving, I thought. I saw a evening of his work a long time back; called "Single Spies", it was actually two plays - "An Englishman Abroad", about Coral Browne meeting up with Guy Burgess in Moscow, and "A Question of Attribution", about Blunt's last days before 'discovery'. Absolutely stunning theatre, and I'm sorry to say that apart from Habeas Corpus I've not seen any other Bennett plays on stage at all. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.106.220.19 |
I love the part in "A Question of Attribution" where Blunt and the Queen have been discussing fakes, and afterwards another character asks Blunt what they'd been talking about, and Blunt says "I was talking about art. I'm not at all sure she was". | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.109.254.19 |
...tell a lie, I saw "The Madness of George III" at the National as well (darlings). | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
The film of the Madness of George III had to be retitled for the US market to The Madness of King George - because Americans wouldn't go to see it because they hadn't seen parts I and II... Ha Ha | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.98.142 |
Bennett is iconic. The way he applies his luminous talent to the minutiae of life is exquisite. Every time I dip into his autobio,I weep with laughter. The man is a genius. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.107.64 |
'Attribution', I've just been reminded it is a classic of TV. It excels even Poliakoff. Interesting treatement of immunity, anonymity and fakery... Prunella Scales brilliant as the Queen. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.108 |
The film of the Madness of George III had to be retitled for the US market to The Madness of King George - because Americans wouldn't go to see it because they hadn't seen parts I and II... I saw that joke - different brand, same thing though - in the remainder bin yesterday at the 99¢ store, and then there were a bunch of overstocks at the local Salvation Army. People would pick one up, look it over curiously, and put it right back. But it's nice to know someone is out there still picking up old junk. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
That ain't no joke. That's true! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
They also had to retitle James Bond - Licence Revoked to Licence to Kill because the US market didn't know what revoke meant. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.106.220.83 |
That ain't no joke. That's true! It is indeed true, although whether it's the American people at large who wouldn't have understood the title, or the fear of the distributors that they wouldn't, is unclear. I suspect the latter somehow. |