You said I got a '90's Volvo and their whole discography

[sovay]

Okay, on an unfamiliar antibiotic and the aftershock of the concert and next to zero sleep it appears that I do not have the mental wherewithal to write any further about movies today, so please enjoy this thoroughly charming article: "Antonio Salieri's Revenge." Shaffer's Salieri has been important to me for twenty years, but I have in fact heard and enjoyed the music of the real, neither murderous nor mediocre one, and I don't see the point of resisting this description: "Salieri is one of history's all-time losers—a bystander run over by a Mack truck of malicious gossip."

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[sovay]

I saw Amadeus in London in 1981, with Frank Finlay as Salieri. I still remember the way he said "sweetmeats from my native Italy."

I can still hear David Suchet's "Grazie, Signore!"

(Who was Mozart in 1981?)

[a_reasonable_man]

I had to look it up, but Richard O'Callaghan.

I do remember a lot of things, though, about that trip to London, including seeing the procession for Chuck and Di's wedding.

[sovay]

I had to look it up, but Richard O'Callaghan.

I have never seen him, but I know what he sounds like: he was Merry in the 1981 BBC Radio Lord of the Rings.

(Frank Finlay I think I have seen only as Van Helsing. Ironically, I identified him there with Mozart.)

I do remember a lot of things, though, about that trip to London, including seeing the procession for Chuck and Di's wedding.

That sounds fascinating. What were you in London for?

[a_reasonable_man]

I was in Denmark with my family that summer and was invited to London by second cousins who were touring Europe. They were going to see the wedding procession; the mother of that family had seen Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession and wanted her family to have a similar memory. I have a lot of stories from that trip.

[kore]

Ooh that post is great. ("I want the book of your film essays, and I want it now" -- yes please! in the most supportive non-pressury tone possible.)

[sovay]

("I want the book of your film essays, and I want it now" -- yes please! in the most supportive non-pressury tone possible.)

Thank you! I . . . have been told recently that books of film criticism are difficult to market and sell.

[kore]

....well whoever told you that can go piss up a rope, as my late father used to say. Pfui. (Publishers don't know what will sell any more than movie producers know what movies will sell a lot of ticket. It's all fucking guessing imho.)