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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[barry-king.livejournal.com]

I have yet to find a piece of fiction more disturbing than The Wasp Factory. Some of the imagery gets caught in the woolgather like burdock. An author should not be able to do that and then go on to write all the other.

[sovay]

Some of the imagery gets caught in the woolgather like burdock. An author should not be able to do that and then go on to write all the other.

That was the novel I discovered him with: I love it. The other is what was surprising to me.