I heard that "The Ode.." is nothing but a pompous apogee for metric
poetry & a polemic on modernism.
KS
On 30/03/07, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Stephen Fry recently wrote "The Ode Less Travelled," a sort of
> beginner's guide to poetic form.
>
> Roger Day wrote:
> > That'll be Steven Fry who played Bertie Wooster. Of the two, it was
> > often thought that Fry would go further but no ... I'm not sure who
> > has the more English accent. Yes, it's an English accent, not British.
> > The British don't have an accent, unless it's Estaurine. It's
> > certainly not Welsh or Scottish or Ulster. It's like confusing
> > Canadian with American.
> >
> > House was OK in the first series, and most of the second. In the
> > second I think he started to run out of ways to abuse patients, either
> > physically (oh, let's kill the patient to make them better) or
> > verbally.
> >
> > House is really Sherlock Holmes in the hospital - House lives at 22b
> > Baker Street I think you'll find.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On 3/30/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Candice, we are fans, my wife & I, & I remembered when I first saw it
> >> that Laurie was British, a wonderful fool in the Black Adder series, as
> >> well as Bertie Wooster (& I can't rmember who played Jeeves, that is
> >> his name [at the moment], but he's been very funny as a therapist on
> >> Bones lately, with a very British accent, however).
> >>
> >> Yes: usually on British series, when an actor tries to 'speak American'
> >> s/he fails, but Laurie nails it.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 29-Mar-07, at 7:15 PM, MC Ward wrote:
> >>
> >> > Does anyone else watch the tv series "House"? I was
> >> > astonished to read recently that the show's star, Hugh
> >> > Laurie, is a British actor who lives in London with
> >> > his wife and 3 children. Every other weekend he flies
> >> > to London to see them. I would never have guessed he
> >> > was British since he "speaks American," as he puts it,
> >> > so well. It's the hardest part of the job for him,
> >> > compared to, say, learning his lines for each weekly
> >> > episode. Only after he's gotten his lines down can he
> >> > concentrate on "translating" them into "American."
> >> >
> >> > If you don't know "House," try to catch an episode.
> >> > It's a wonderful show, especially thanks to Laurie,
> >> > who's obviously British-trained in acting and turns in
> >> > a spectacular physical performance week after week
> >> > (Sat. night at 11:00).
> >> >
> >> > Candice
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> > _____________
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> Douglas Barbour
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> >>
> >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >>
> >>
> >> No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no
> >> symphony for the listener.
> >>
> >> Walter Benjamin
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
> Tad Richards
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> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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