Seth, drain the well. There's a neighbor missing

[sovay]

It is a good thing Ian McKellen followed up his turn in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) with roles as monumentally pop-cultural as Gandalf or Magneto, because otherwise I suspect people would still be accosting him in the street and shouting, "THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

. . . Actually, I really hope they still do.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I would! I adore that movie.

Nine

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

worst fears realized darling, Seth and Reuben too, send gumboots

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Was that before he did the movie Richard III (he was in the play a few years before the movie - I saw a traveling show in Minnesota and even though he was great, the rest of the actors were not that great.)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

"Drain the well, there's a neighbor missing" is so utterly plausible in my family, I had an eyebrow-raising moment.

I am at work on a Friday. Please bash me repeatedly with hard blunt things to dull the pain.

(I am wearing a lesbian social activism t-shirt, jeans, and Keens, which taken together make me look butch on a stevedore level; I can only hope it pisses the execs off just a little. Hey, you make me wake up at five, you reap what's been sown...)

In closing, mmmm, Ian McKellen. Now I need to google that film.

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

I love that movie. After I watched it the first three times (in a week), I'd invite bunches of friends over to see it too, just to have an excuse to watch it again. And to spread the good news. It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

yesssss

ETA: When my family went to Scotland several years ago, I had high hopes that the rental vehicle would allow me to yell "We're goin to go all about in a FARHD VAN."

Alas, it was a Volkswagen.

[larryhammer]

*blink* That was McKellen, wasn't it. I'd forgotten that. Clearly, it's been too long since I watched it.

---L.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

...I really need to watch that movie again. It's been ages and ages.

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

I really want to start a local goat dairy called "No Butter In Hell" now. We would make everything but butter.

(See, goat milk doesn't make butter very easily because the cream doesn't separate... oh blast. It sounded good in my head.)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Damn, where do I start: the novel, or this film?