didn't read it all, but seems quite accurate.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:55 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> There's a sad account of god calling at:
>
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/06/09/080609crbo_books_menand
>
> I hope he didn't shout at you.
>
>
>
> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> > No, really. I do believe those little green men are about to land any
> > second now. Oh, look, there's god outside the window calling.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM, David Bircumshaw
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Galaxy Quest is quite funny, especially the first time you see it. I
> >> take it you do realise science-fiction isn't really about the future?
> >>
> >> 2008/6/5 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> >>> that should be the "commercial" as opposed to professional.
> >>>
> >>> re:Patrick Stewart
> >>>
> >>> I watched Galaxy Quest last night and all those sad nerds going to see
> >>> PS. I wonder what they thought they were going to see. Man, where are
> >>> the Vulcans?
> >>>
> >>> Sadly, I watched a ST variant during the week, and I kept calling the
> >>> Klingons, Vulcans. I'm handing my geek credentials in now.
> >>>
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>> Very little Shakespeare is played out on the professional west-end
> >>>> stage these days. Most of it is in the Shakespearean churches.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Roger: This is silly. Shakespeare is performed on the profesional
> stage in
> >>>>> the US all the time. Two years ago I saw a wonderful production of As
> You
> >>>>> Like It in Tucson. There are sold out summer Shakespeare festivals in
> >>>>> Oregon, New York, and Connecticut that I'm aware of. When I was a
> teenager a
> >>>>> complete cycle of the history plays was done at a major downtown
> theater in
> >>>>> NY. Lear was done on Broadway last year.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The ways of the censor tend to be unpredictable, perhaps because
> >>>>> unpredictability is such a potent weapon.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mark
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> At 05:40 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> one swallow a summer does not make.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]
> >
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> > Right now the hottest ticket on Broadway is MacBeth, with Patrick
> >>>>>> > Stewart in
> >>>>>> > the title role. The run is sold out--even the scalpers are at a
> loss.
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > Mark
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > At 12:47 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> Those were the days - the Lord Chamberlain (member of the Royal
> >>>>>> >> Household) and his malign influence on the British Theatre. In
> another
> >>>>>> >> email list, a long time ago, I mooted the theory that
> shakespeare's
> >>>>>> >> continuing popularity down the ages was due in part to the Bard's
> >>>>>> >> acceptability before the LC. My logic, fwiw, ran thus: you want
> to put
> >>>>>> >> on a play and in those days, the least likeliest plays to get
> banned
> >>>>>> >> were Shakespeares. So, you play safe, put on the Bard. Until the
> 60s,
> >>>>>> >> when the LC threw away his blue pencil. Nowadays, S hardly
> appears on
> >>>>>> >> the commercial stage.
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> American bannings are two a penny: their school libraries have
> >>>>>> >> committees which are battle-grounds for the inclusion/exclusion
> of
> >>>>>> >> books. Harry Potter is a notorious example of this - the poor,
> deluded
> >>>>>> >> fundies trying to stave off the influence of the heathen (WTF?).
> There
> >>>>>> >> are lists on line of books that have been banned in the US. Are
> there
> >>>>>> >> any for the UK?
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> Roger
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Bircumshaw
> >>>>>> >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>> >> > Lear was banned from performance between 1788-1820 when George
> III
> >>>>>> >> > was considered insane, and the link between stage and royalty
> would
> >>>>>> >> > be
> >>>>>> >> > too close for official comfort. Contemporaneously with this Tom
> Paine
> >>>>>> >> > was also banned in England and, famously, Coleridge and
> Wordsworth
> >>>>>> >> > were watched for talking about Spinoza (Spy-noza)
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >> > While 'Silas Marner' was banned in Anaheim CA in 1978 (?!) and
> '1984'
> >>>>>> >> > in Florida in 1981 because it was considered 'pro-communist'
> (?)
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >> > --
> >>>>>> >> > David Bircumshaw
> >>>>>> >> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >>>>>> >> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> >>>>>> >> > The Animal Subsides
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >>>>>> >> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> --
> >>>>>> >> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> >>>>>> >> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> >>>>>> >> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> >>>>>> >> The Go-Betweens
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> >>>>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> >>>>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> >>>>>> The Go-Betweens
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> >>>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> >>>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> >>>> The Go-Betweens
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> >>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> >>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> >>> The Go-Betweens
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Bircumshaw
> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> > She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> > The Go-Betweens
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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