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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2013-04-03 10:53 pm

The Earth has lost its last great dictator

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).

[livejournal.com profile] handful_ofdust, have a 1985 interview with Peter Cushing. Starlog has just gone up at the Internet Archive.
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[personal profile] selidor 2013-04-04 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Gosh I wish this news wasn't the case.
There's a shelf of (mostly M.) Banks books that need to travel in December from NZ back to where-ever all the other books will be living by then. I remember The Crow Road as disturbing as anything, and evocative.