Happy Saint Patrick's Day! We cleaned the dining room and celebrated with corned beef and soup dumplings. In a normal year, we would have been at my parents' house for dinner. I am talking to them on the phone a lot.
1. I grew up listening to Tom Lehrer, but I never saw any of his performances until the internet made such recordings readily accessible. "I Got It from Agnes" has been appropriately running around my friendlist, but I am particularly charmed by this rendition which appears to come from an episode of Parkinson in 1980.
2. I am also charmed by this PSA from Max and Mel Brooks.
3. Last night I watched The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) because it was on TCM and I had enjoyed the 1956 novel by Hammond Innes. I think it is a serviceable rather than a great sea-film—like the novel, it's a neat mix of courtroom drama and high seas adventure, but it goes rather more Hollywood at the finale, Gary Cooper is enough older than the character as originally written that it changes the dynamics even though he acts the part just fine, and at this point I think have just developed an allergy to Charlton Heston—but I had never before seen a young Richard Harris and I was so startled by his resemblance at that age to his son Jared that I went to the pain in the ass of taking screencaps off TCM. He has a narrower face, but the same high forehead, the loose-blown hair, the catlike smile; a remarkably similar slouch. He's playing a complete bastard, but that's irrelevant for visual purposes. I had only seen him older and craggier. ( I'm just trying to be accurate, sir. )
4. While looking for comparable images of Jared Harris, I found this lovely set of gifs from The Eternal (1998). I'm just sorry there isn't one of him falling down the stairs. It was a Buster Keaton-worthy wipeout. Thank you again for that movie,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alexxkay.
5. Courtesy ofselkie: the folk tradition at its finest. (Context, if needed.)
1. I grew up listening to Tom Lehrer, but I never saw any of his performances until the internet made such recordings readily accessible. "I Got It from Agnes" has been appropriately running around my friendlist, but I am particularly charmed by this rendition which appears to come from an episode of Parkinson in 1980.
2. I am also charmed by this PSA from Max and Mel Brooks.
3. Last night I watched The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) because it was on TCM and I had enjoyed the 1956 novel by Hammond Innes. I think it is a serviceable rather than a great sea-film—like the novel, it's a neat mix of courtroom drama and high seas adventure, but it goes rather more Hollywood at the finale, Gary Cooper is enough older than the character as originally written that it changes the dynamics even though he acts the part just fine, and at this point I think have just developed an allergy to Charlton Heston—but I had never before seen a young Richard Harris and I was so startled by his resemblance at that age to his son Jared that I went to the pain in the ass of taking screencaps off TCM. He has a narrower face, but the same high forehead, the loose-blown hair, the catlike smile; a remarkably similar slouch. He's playing a complete bastard, but that's irrelevant for visual purposes. I had only seen him older and craggier. ( I'm just trying to be accurate, sir. )
4. While looking for comparable images of Jared Harris, I found this lovely set of gifs from The Eternal (1998). I'm just sorry there isn't one of him falling down the stairs. It was a Buster Keaton-worthy wipeout. Thank you again for that movie,
alexxkay.5. Courtesy of
selkie: the folk tradition at its finest. (Context, if needed.)
