sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-04-21 07:05 pm

And some no one from the future remembers that you're gone

Still toast. Successfully collected my father from the airport two nights ago. Would like my capacity for movies to get back online before I run out of month in which to write about them. Would also like our next-door neighbor to have ceased to use loud air-whining machineries after seven p.m.

I saw the news of the death of Pope Francis. If it was going to be one of his last public statements, the construction site of Hell was an incredibly metal image to go out on.

I was not expecting to see the news that Willy Ley had been found in a can in a co-op on 67th Street. The idea of sending his ashes to space is completely correct and I wouldn't put SpaceX anywhere near that gesture. I could rewatch Frau im Mond (1929) for his memory.

Playing Stan Rogers' "Macdonnell on the Heights" (1984) for [personal profile] spatch may actually have counter-observed Patriots' Day, but my point still stands that the song has successfully superseded its chorus, or at least one in ten thousand seems to underrate Rogers' influence.

Personally I would ask Nigel Havers about the 1986 LWT A Little Princess.
thisbluespirit: (s&s - silver/steel)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2025-04-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It's wonderful, if you are region-permitted to watch it off YouTube.

Thanks! It looks like it does, anyway, if I do want to try it.

The questions I imagine anybody would ask! How did he feel about being in a beloved children's classic? Had he read it to his daughter? Had he read it on his own time?

Aw, those sound like good questions. You should have got to ask them!

Any feelings about Carrisford being a lot more of a disaster than his traditional range of charmers? I am very fond of his Carrisford.

Ha, I am more familiar with him as various shades of cad, and in particular the hilariously terrible waste of a human being he plays in the radio sitcom Reluctant Persuaders. (So, I would have asked him if he could have sworn he heard someone mention his name, which is why you should get to ask people questions and I should not. XD)
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2025-04-23 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember you mentioning that show to me for its (inevitable) Martin Jarvis values, but I did not realize it regularly featured Nigel Havers!

Yes, he does crop up in it twice, I think - I remember I only found out about s4 when I was scrolling down his Genome credits. I seem to have talked about it in a post I never actually posted publicly and so then thought I had, otherwise you would have heard me talk about Rupert Hardacre at some point. I'm not quite sure why Nigel Havers being a terrible person is so funny to me, but that was continually the best bit. Well, apart from the musical episode, which was amazing, obv.

Martin Jarvis is canonically even more terrible than Nigel Havers, though, but he fools people because he has such a marvellous voice. XD