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- Hometown:
- New York NY 10038
- About Me:
- I write a lot of online fiction, because off-line, I rewrite everything to death, whether I half-hope anyone except me will bother to read it or not. My stories, which in blog-format often run as serials to an average of 160 pages, focus on characters, their struggles with love and money, passion, identity, doubt, disappointment, delight, euphoria, and ultimately either sad fate or death. But that's only so far; contours are subject to change.
- Favorite Music:
- Jazz and soul and whatever I can glean from the up-and-coming. I appreciate modern retakes and classical works when I can follow them.
- Favorite TV Shows:
- We didn't have a TV when I was growing up and we don't have one now. We do, however, have a computer. We watched all of "The Wire," thanks to Netflicks.
We downloaded a few episodes of "Mad Men," great clothes.
Most of "Arrested Development," and particular shows by "Jon Stewert and Stephen Colbert. A few "30 Rock," which Manny likes much more than I: possibly further testament to Tine Fey as the sex symbol of our times.
Also: "Flight of the Conchords."
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Anyway, for the challenge, I've decided to reread a few of Shakespeare's plays, inspired by Claudia Roth Pierpont's article in the November 19th New Yorker about rival and mutual admirers of Shakespearean movie-makers, Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. With little hope I'll get to see these movies in a proper movie theater anytime soon, I've pledged to read:
Henry IV
Henry V
Richard III
and Hamlet.
I may reread Othello, which I remember much better than the others, because the article included an analysis of it, too. Welles' movie, which I remember well, took years to make. He staged one scene in a bathhouse because he couldn't afford costumes. Olivier didn't think Othello was a role he could perform let alone a movie could make. Yet later in life, he did take it on. Still, the four I listed first are the ones I intend to reread carefully.