Until it's red, all red as foxes

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My poem "Foxstory" has been accepted by Through the Gate. It was directly inspired by Jenn Grunigen's Storyfox: A Database of Vulpine Science Fiction and Fantasy. I am very glad it has found a home.

I just saw that Louis Jourdan has died. Like most people who grew up on MGM musicals, I saw him first in Gigi (1958), but I will remember him as one of the best Draculas I have seen.

So has Alan Howard. I was in the wrong country to see much of him; I caught him only in odd episodes of television and the whispering of the One Ring. I knew of him mostly because of his uncle. I really need to see The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

It is snowing again. Or still. There was clear blue-skied sun earlier when I walked back and forth to my doctor's appointment. The sky is blind white now. I don't know if it's even a storm anymore. It might just be a condition.

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, curses. Alan Howard was one of my theatrical touchstones; I saw much of him at the RSC, both in Stratford and Newcastle. And then he kinda vanished, except for occasional TV roles - until m'friend Sean O'Brien wrote a verse play for a N'cle theatre, Keepers of the Flame, about the politics of the '30s and '80s - and Howard played the lead. Which meant that after the first night I got to hang out and party with the cast and the director. And got to talk to Howard exclusively for a blessed little while. (I also nearly got to act with him, because we did a read-through of an early draft for Sean and he would so have cast me if he could...)

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Oh, curses. Alan Howard was one of my theatrical touchstones; I saw much of him at the RSC, both in Stratford and Newcastle.

I'm so sorry! I envy your having seen him; his theatrical CV looked wonderful. (He was in Christopher Logue's War Music and Kings! I would love to have seen those.) Who do you remember him as best?

(I also nearly got to act with him, because we did a read-through of an early draft for Sean and he would so have cast me if he could...)

I shall have to find a copy of this play. It is becoming apparent to me that not only do I want a time machine for theater, I want an alt-history option on it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I loved his Richard III: insinuating and persuasive and self-mocking all at once.

And, War Music! I did not know he was connected with that! Is this the moment to mention that I heard Christopher Logue read a chunk of it while it was still work-in-progress? (Admittedly many people did, because it was work-in-progress for a very long time, but still...)

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I loved his Richard III: insinuating and persuasive and self-mocking all at once.

That sounds very good.

War Music! I did not know he was connected with that!

So his website says. Maybe there's a recording? (Please?)

Is this the moment to mention that I heard Christopher Logue read a chunk of it while it was still work-in-progress? (Admittedly many people did, because it was work-in-progress for a very long time, but still...)

Conversations with you share the quality of Derek Jarman's journals where, if an artist was working at the time, your life crossed through theirs.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ay me. Golden lad and girls. The little practice snippet of Howard's Richard III against Sinead Cusack's Lady Anne is tantalizing.

Nine

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's a very small country, and Newcastle was something of an unexpected hub; most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

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most people doing anything interesting passed through, over the course of thirty years. And I was always there.

It's a good thing! I never know who's going to turn up next.

It looks as though there are recordings of War Music and Kings: a remembrance of Howard mentions them. Fingers crossed.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, splendid; I did always love his voice.