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So as not to lose track—
R.I.P. Richard Griffiths. Everyone is quoting Uncle Monty, and rightly so, but I seem to remember him most recently and clearly as W.H. Auden in 1972 and the unimpressed actor arguing with his lines in Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art, which I still want on DVD if the National Theatre ever gets its head together. I did not know he was the hearing child of deaf parents. I never saw him in The History Boys. I should find out what he did most recently and watch it. And then I must know someone with DVDs of Gormenghast (2000).
Do you like radio theater? Do you like calzones? Okay, Eat at Jumbo's sells lots of things that aren't calzones, but that's certainly what I'm planning to order on Monday as part of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' season kickoff fundraiser for April's Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular II. The show will be a double feature of the latest Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder ("Crisis of the Cuddlykins") and a new adaptation of Them! (1954), running for two weekends and reprised at the MIT Museum as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, which I personally think is ridiculously cool. (While we're on the subject, buy tickets.) The last time Jumbo's and the PMRP ran this sort of thing, I was in Lexington and slightly out of delivery range of Ball Square. This time I'm wondering if I can actually just sit there and eat a calzone and watch people. It should be fun. Also, their calzones are really good.
This has been mostly an awful week. An example: Tuesday, I was woken at seven in the morning by roofers operating power tools on the other side of my ceiling. Wednesday, I was woken at seven in the morning by roofers operating power tools on the other side of my ceiling. Thursday, I slept at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel's and we were both woken at nine in the morning by contractors operating power tools on the other side of his wall. I was too tired this morning to feel vindictive about the fact that I slept until half past noon and the only thing that woke me was Abbie resettling from the small of my back to my feet, but I probably would have muttered something victorious at the universe if I hadn't gone right back to sleep. Rob returned from the MIT Museum around one o'clock with finger puppets of Schrödinger's cat and Pavlov's dog and takeout from Mary Chung's. My family held a very minimalist seder tonight, because we couldn't either of the first two nights of Pesach; I am still glad of it. I make the charoses with my great-grandmother's chopper and bowl, tell the story a little differently each time.
I am starting to miss my books again.
R.I.P. Richard Griffiths. Everyone is quoting Uncle Monty, and rightly so, but I seem to remember him most recently and clearly as W.H. Auden in 1972 and the unimpressed actor arguing with his lines in Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art, which I still want on DVD if the National Theatre ever gets its head together. I did not know he was the hearing child of deaf parents. I never saw him in The History Boys. I should find out what he did most recently and watch it. And then I must know someone with DVDs of Gormenghast (2000).
Do you like radio theater? Do you like calzones? Okay, Eat at Jumbo's sells lots of things that aren't calzones, but that's certainly what I'm planning to order on Monday as part of the Post-Meridian Radio Players' season kickoff fundraiser for April's Spring Sci-Fi Spectacular II. The show will be a double feature of the latest Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder ("Crisis of the Cuddlykins") and a new adaptation of Them! (1954), running for two weekends and reprised at the MIT Museum as part of the Cambridge Science Festival, which I personally think is ridiculously cool. (While we're on the subject, buy tickets.) The last time Jumbo's and the PMRP ran this sort of thing, I was in Lexington and slightly out of delivery range of Ball Square. This time I'm wondering if I can actually just sit there and eat a calzone and watch people. It should be fun. Also, their calzones are really good.
This has been mostly an awful week. An example: Tuesday, I was woken at seven in the morning by roofers operating power tools on the other side of my ceiling. Wednesday, I was woken at seven in the morning by roofers operating power tools on the other side of my ceiling. Thursday, I slept at
derspatchel's and we were both woken at nine in the morning by contractors operating power tools on the other side of his wall. I was too tired this morning to feel vindictive about the fact that I slept until half past noon and the only thing that woke me was Abbie resettling from the small of my back to my feet, but I probably would have muttered something victorious at the universe if I hadn't gone right back to sleep. Rob returned from the MIT Museum around one o'clock with finger puppets of Schrödinger's cat and Pavlov's dog and takeout from Mary Chung's. My family held a very minimalist seder tonight, because we couldn't either of the first two nights of Pesach; I am still glad of it. I make the charoses with my great-grandmother's chopper and bowl, tell the story a little differently each time.I am starting to miss my books again.
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He is the writer-director of Red Shift and performs in same as Dr. Albert Alberts, cranky scientist extraordinaire, visible here and here in his customary lab coat and really bad tie. He was actually dressed as Dr. Alberts the first time I ever saw him offstage, because it was Arisia 2010 and we met in the green room between a performance of his and a panel of mine. Lab coats suit him.
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I think he's lovely.
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You do and it is me. Come over sometime and help me mainline a whole DVD.
I'm sorry to see Richard Griffiths go. Genuinely funny character actors don't grow on trees.
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[Edit: read the right link, and it looks like the answer is yes. OK, got it.]
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Excellent. It's a deal!
[Edit: read the right link, and it looks like the answer is yes. OK, got it.]
Yeah, I realize that paragraph was something of a linkdump; I am sorry about that. Congratulations on navigating it correctly! Also, eat calzones for radio.
[edit] Genuinely funny character actors don't grow on trees.
And I like being able to follow ones who are alive! It took me years to notice contemporary actors in the same way as actors who floruerunt 1930—1965.
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What a sweetheart!
"Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age!" I adored Richard Griffiths. Thanks to a generous friend, I did get to see him on stage in The History Boys, as well as in the glorious NT broadcast as Auden, and in so many films: as Uncle Monty, as Swelter. I am grateful for that.
May you be reunited with your books. May the hammers cease.
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Also a button that reads "I highly recommend the Scientific Method."
I am very fond of him.
May you be reunited with your books. May the hammers cease.
We need the work on our apartment done first. But then quiet and reading. Thank you.
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He did well in it, at least if I'm correct in remembering which character he played. For some reason I'm a bit surprised you've not seen that one. It's worth the seeing, I think.
May he rest in peace.
Enjoy your calzone!
I'm sorry for the mostly awfulness. Glad ye had your Seder at last.
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It came out in the period between Alan Bennett being on my radar for Beyond the Fringe and Alan Bennett being on my radar for The Habit of Art. I realize that covers a number of decades, but these things happen.
Enjoy your calzone!
On Monday, I shall!
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Sorry to hear you're being stalked by strange men with power tools.
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Heh.
Sorry to hear you're being stalked by strange men with power tools.
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My aunt told me he was dead by the name of his character in that film which on the one hand is completely mad and on the other hand quite right. Not many people working in that range.
And I'm so glad you got some sleep. I've had a rotten week for sleep too. I wonder if it's something going around?
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On the plus side, the presence of roofers suggests that you might eventually have a functional building, y?
But I am sorry for your lack of sleep, and feel for your lack of books.
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I am hoping. Roofs are not windows. But ceilings that don't leak in storms are also good things.
But I am sorry for your lack of sleep, and feel for your lack of books.
Thank you.
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Check.
My aunt told me he was dead by the name of his character in that film which on the one hand is completely mad and on the other hand quite right.
My mother is like that about some actors: they fix to roles for her and she calls them by their characters' names. I have learned to differentiate the occasionally confusing cases. I think Elijah Wood will always be "the hobbit" to her.
And I'm so glad you got some sleep. I've had a rotten week for sleep too.
Bah. I hope the last few days have been better.
I wonder if it's something going around?
March was just like this! I wasn't expecting it to be!
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Like Noel Coward, and Lon Chaney. Interesting.
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I'd only ever heard of Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley, and am glad to hear of his other accomplishments. Sixty-five is far, far too young.
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Yes.
You should see some of his other accomplishments. I have The History Boys to catch up on.
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I had no idea about either of those. Huh!
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Here's another vote to see "History Boys." I've seen the movie a couple of times and even saw it performed on stage in DC. Of course it wasn't Richard Griffiths on stage when I saw it but I always think of him when I think of seeing it.
I don't know if it would interest you but we enjoyed him in five seasons of "Pie in the Sky." He played a detective inspector AND chef. Maggie Steed played his wife. We were very sad when we watched the last episode of the last season. Available from Netflix (who also have a pretty good selection of other things he's done).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_in_the_Sky_%28TV_series%29
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I'm all right with cats: it's possible to shoo them out of the room, even when they latch all available claws onto the bathrobe you are sleeping under and dislodge only under great protest and some reworking of the laws of physics. (Not like this has happened to me recently.) It is more difficult to relocate contractors in the same way.
Of course it wasn't Richard Griffiths on stage when I saw it but I always think of him when I think of seeing it.
That's a wonderful tribute to an actor.
I don't know if it would interest you but we enjoyed him in five seasons of "Pie in the Sky."
And I'd never even heard of the show before I saw it mentioned in his obituaries. I'll give it a try. Thank you!