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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-08-29 03:51 am

We're human, trying to heal to this sound

Chadwick Boseman has died, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Knowing only his Prospero and his poetry, I found this remembrance of Heathcote Williams by his son a difficult read, like being parented by Mad Sweeney, but beautifully written and recognized.

Talking with [personal profile] selkie about the two or so seconds of Burn Gorman visible in the trailer for Enola Holmes (2020) has reminded me that I still have umpty-bazillion feelings about Pacific Rim (2013), including right now maximal resentment of an apocalypse in which it is significantly more difficult to shake hands awkwardly with someone before doing something stupidly, recklessly, selflessly world-saving with them. Which would be a nice option to have on the table, handshake or no.
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[personal profile] alexxkay 2020-08-29 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I first ran into Heathcote Williams as a joke in Neil Gaiman's "Being an Experiment...". Years later, I had a brief correspondence with him. He wanted to buy some Elizabethan books I had reprinted by Robert Greene, as research for a movie role.
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[personal profile] alexxkay 2020-08-30 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
The Gaiman story is mildly amusing in prose, but hilarious read aloud. Which, luckily, someone has uploaded.

I did send him the books. I remember saying I didn't need payment, as the books were largely dead inventory at that point; don't recall if he insisted on paying anyways.

The movie may have fallen through, as I don't see a credit in IMDB for such a role. Then again, perhaps he had his historical Greene's confuzzled, as he *did* play publisher *Nick* Greene in Orlando (1992). Although that doesn't work, since I didn't start that publishing project until 1993. It is a puzzlement.