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Archive for January, 2011

………………………… What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life! [...]

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Long shot: The Duchess walking away from the Grey family after giving her newborn to that family. By contrast, Duke kept mistress as the duchess’s companion, & his illegitimate children he has too, a daughter from a liaison Georgiana mothered. At the same time how beautiful the scene … Keira Knightley in Gainsborough style hat: [...]

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Mary (Leslie Manville), all vulnerability, sitting between a quizzical Gerri (Ruth Sheen) and her ever so relaxed son, Joe (Oliver Maltman) Dear friends and readers, On Sunday Izzy and I ventured forth in the brutal cold to see Mike Leigh’s Another Year. I so enjoyed Happy-Go-Lucky, admired his High Hopes at the time, and Topsy-Turvy [...]

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Frank Currituck Benson 186201951), Currituck Marshes, North Carolina (1926) Dear friends and readers, A brief seasonal blog: tonight in Alexandria we are experiencing the kind of cold that threatens the life of anyone who has to spend the night out in it. I did finish and sent off my paper on the film adaptations of [...]

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I have an inward treasure, born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford to pay” —–Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Beyond the Horizon: from another production, probably Andy and Robert as the play opens Dear friends and readers, Six years [...]

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Marnie (Tippi Hedren) all distress and the caring tender Mark (Sean Connery) from Hitchcock’s 1960s Marnie) Dear friends and readers, I’ve not given up on Winston Graham because his 8th Poldark novel, The Stranger from the Sea, revealed a precipitious falling off. A series of 7 remarkable historical novels set in the 18th century is [...]

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Camille Pissarro, Morning Light on Snow Dear friends and readers, Several months ago now (!), back in September I wrote a blog about how on WWTTA we had begun a reading and discussion of a group of Gaskell’s short stories and novellas that are online as well as in print in three separate collections (Cousin [...]

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Isabelle Caro, dead at 28: she weighed 56 pounds Dear friends and readers, I’ve had a policy for quite a while now of not writing about books or movies which are bad. It takes time to write a blog, to write about something awful seems counterproductive: after all, ignoring it is the best way to [...]

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