Scaramouche, a great classic, was on Turner Classic Movies
this week. IMDB says Stewart Granger was the second best fencer
in Hollywood. The best ? Basil Rathbone. Janet Leigh is excellent
in this one as is Eleanor Parker.
Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times
NYT Blog When Brooklyn Brewed the World.
War of the Worlds 2005, saw this on DVD, worth watching for
Special Effects. Love dem horns.
Al Pacino's Looking for Richard was on Cable tonight.
Always interesting, does a nice take on Richard's oration to his Army.
What shall I say more than I have inferr'd? Remember whom you are to cope withal; A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth To desperate ventures and assured destruction. You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest; You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives, They would restrain the one, distain the other. And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow, Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost? A milk-sop, one that never in his life Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow? Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again; Lash hence these overweening rags of France, These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives; Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit, For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves: If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us, And not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd, And in record, left them the heirs of shame. Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives? Ravish our daughters?
Ian McKellen is my favorite Richard.
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