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Two things before I run off to try for Dorothy Arzner's Get Your Man (1927) with live music at the Somerville Theatre—
The University of Manchester has discovered hitherto unknown papers of Alan Turing. None of them illuminate much about his emotional life between 1949 and 1954, but apparently his opinion of America had plummeted since 1936. At Princeton, he had mostly been puzzled: "The Americans have various peculiarities in conversation which catch the ear somehow. Whenever you thank them for anything, they say 'You're welcome'. I rather liked it at first, thinking I was welcome, but now I find it comes back like a ball thrown against a wall, and become positively apprehensive. Another habit they have is to make the sound described by authors as 'Aha'. They use it when they have no suitable reply to a remark, but think that silence could be rude." I admit that like most people I would have enjoyed a more personal angle, but new material on Turing's research and working methods is not chopped liver.
Brain, I appreciate you dreaming about actors as a break from the panoply of global, national, and personal horror that has been on nightly repeat for months on end now, but I really don't think Bernard Hepton has a band.
The University of Manchester has discovered hitherto unknown papers of Alan Turing. None of them illuminate much about his emotional life between 1949 and 1954, but apparently his opinion of America had plummeted since 1936. At Princeton, he had mostly been puzzled: "The Americans have various peculiarities in conversation which catch the ear somehow. Whenever you thank them for anything, they say 'You're welcome'. I rather liked it at first, thinking I was welcome, but now I find it comes back like a ball thrown against a wall, and become positively apprehensive. Another habit they have is to make the sound described by authors as 'Aha'. They use it when they have no suitable reply to a remark, but think that silence could be rude." I admit that like most people I would have enjoyed a more personal angle, but new material on Turing's research and working methods is not chopped liver.
Brain, I appreciate you dreaming about actors as a break from the panoply of global, national, and personal horror that has been on nightly repeat for months on end now, but I really don't think Bernard Hepton has a band.
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They're both very good, and the shape of ER is dictated by the Six-Wives format. I found it hard not to be curious, once I'd watched Elizabeth R, and I think it would probably be a better experience that way round - but also twice as long, there is that! Glenda Jackson is amazing, but her Privy Council comprised of excellently bickering character actors are also great.
A set of a dozen plays may take me some time to get through, though, and all bets are off on reporting back on it. You will note I still haven't managed a formal review of the second half of Sapphire & Steel despite finishing—and loving—it in June.
There are no deadlines here! I have a set of v flimsy reviews of things I watched in May and June lurking somewhere on my Dreamwidth as a draft. Not that of course I'm not looking forward to more S&S thoughts from you, or that I wouldn't enjoy your thoughts on Elizabeth R.
This is what happens with character actors! Once I started paying attention, both Denholm Elliott and Ralph Richardson retroactively turned out to have been in everything.
It's true, although some of them you genuinely manage to avoid for ages and then suddenly, they're everywhere! *eyes them suspiciously*
but I've just had it demonstrated to me that Hepton could do ambiguously otherworldly with almost nothing to tip it off; I'd watch his Inspector.
A couple of people seem to have it up on YouTube. (I found it when I was trying to see if anyone had the BBC 2015 version up for a friend, and got random Bernard Hepton instead. I see it's 1982; I misremembered the date, but only by one year.)
No, that's a fair criticism: it sounds like it's a solid entry, but you've seen other shows with similar material treat it much more ambitiously. I'm glad you're enjoying it anyway.
Probably, although I'm aware that most other people seem to prefer Secret Army! I'm just awkward. ;-)