The Earth has lost its last great dictator

[sovay]

R.I.P. Milo O'Shea, a man with great eyebrows and a way with a rape piano. I saw him first as the owlish-eyed Friar Lawrence in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968), but I remember him most vividly from Barbarella. This is probably unsurprising on some level. I have never heard that the 1966 Ulysses is a great adaptation of the novel, but I still want to see it someday.

I do not want to requiescat Iain Banks while he's still making personal statements, but I don't like this one. I still need to read The Crow Road (1992).

handful_ofdust, have a 1985 interview with Peter Cushing. Starlog has just gone up at the Internet Archive.

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[sovay]

A... what?

rushthatspeaks' name for the Excessive Machine in Barbarella (1968), a sort of pipe-organ orgasmatron played by the mad scientist Durand Durand; it is supposed to destroy our heroine with sexual pleasure and instead she blows out its circuits. Rush showed me the movie last January; the really strange thing about it is that pieces of it are completely, reasonably good.

(But that's a fair question.)

[rosefox]

Okay! And here I thought it was a most peculiar typo.