I'm waiting to find out at what point Boston is just going to accept the new natural order of apocalyptic blizzard every few days. I was out running errands this afternoon and the stores were not chock-full of people buying milk, so there may be hope. Unless it means the stores are out of milk.
1. I cannot express the delight I feel at finding Tumblr fancasts of Leslie Howard as Lord Peter Wimsey. I have been espousing this casting since graduate school and intermittently amusing myself by drawing correspondences between the lives of the actor and the character and if I can't have a time machine, damn it, I'll take gifsets.
2. A moment of silence for Barrie Ingham. I discovered him a few years ago with the television adaptation of Margery Allingham's Flowers for the Judge (1936) in which he played the book's most memorable character, the awkward-mannered cousin of a vanished publisher with a secret of his own; I can't discuss further without giving away the plot, but Ingham played him very sympathetically and very well, with a grace of gesture that made the final chapter's reveal miraculous rather than purely comic. Then it turned out I had heard him decades earlier as Basil of Baker Street in The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and seen him in an epically terrible episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation,* and I have that London recording of Gypsy where he played Herbie to Angela Lansbury's Mama Rose. He made almost no films and much less television than many successful actors of his generation. For just a handful of performances, I was really fond of him.
* "Up the Long Ladder" (2.18). It's the one with Irish Travellers in Space. Also clones. I have no plans for rewatch at this time.
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moon_custafer: drawings by Charles Darwin's children. I love the fish with the umbrella, the swooping pastel birds and moths, the mounted vegetable regiment. Some of this stuff is practically Ursula Vernon. See the American Museum of Natural History's Darwin Manuscripts Project for more.
I watched National Velvet (1944) last night for the first time in a few years. I really just like that movie.
1. I cannot express the delight I feel at finding Tumblr fancasts of Leslie Howard as Lord Peter Wimsey. I have been espousing this casting since graduate school and intermittently amusing myself by drawing correspondences between the lives of the actor and the character and if I can't have a time machine, damn it, I'll take gifsets.
2. A moment of silence for Barrie Ingham. I discovered him a few years ago with the television adaptation of Margery Allingham's Flowers for the Judge (1936) in which he played the book's most memorable character, the awkward-mannered cousin of a vanished publisher with a secret of his own; I can't discuss further without giving away the plot, but Ingham played him very sympathetically and very well, with a grace of gesture that made the final chapter's reveal miraculous rather than purely comic. Then it turned out I had heard him decades earlier as Basil of Baker Street in The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and seen him in an epically terrible episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation,* and I have that London recording of Gypsy where he played Herbie to Angela Lansbury's Mama Rose. He made almost no films and much less television than many successful actors of his generation. For just a handful of performances, I was really fond of him.
* "Up the Long Ladder" (2.18). It's the one with Irish Travellers in Space. Also clones. I have no plans for rewatch at this time.
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moon_custafer: drawings by Charles Darwin's children. I love the fish with the umbrella, the swooping pastel birds and moths, the mounted vegetable regiment. Some of this stuff is practically Ursula Vernon. See the American Museum of Natural History's Darwin Manuscripts Project for more.I watched National Velvet (1944) last night for the first time in a few years. I really just like that movie.
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