Watched the film of the David Tennant version of Hamlet this evening with maaseru and Pim.

What a show. Keep in mind that I adore Shakespeare with a passionate passion, and Hamlet is my favourite of his plays. I've seen a lot of Hamlets, from the embarrassingly terrible to the brilliant.


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So David Tennant is engaged to Georgia Moffett.

For silly fannish reasons, this delights me.

One of the disappointments of recent Doctor Who is that we haven't seen Jenny again.

30-Day Movie Meme: Day 06 - Favorite made for TV movie

Einstein and Eddington, with Andy Serkis and David Tennant. 2008. A beautiful movie about science and passion.


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Just watched this - the Barrowman and Tennant act.

I am in a state of fannish joy. Oh, those guys. Those wonderful guys.

So now the official announcement ( has been made: )

maaseru sent me a link to this interesting article about David Tennant in Hamlet. I liked the opening line with its link between this and "The Shakespeare Code": "For the second time in his career, David Tennant is finding himself saving Shakespeare." But even better, a connection I'd never thought of:Tennant ... has no difficulty in making the ( Read more... )

I love these things, silly as they are. Digitalspy has a a vote-in contest to determine who's sexier, David Tennant or John Barrowman.

And I find myself in a terrible dilemma. I was about to vote for Barrowman, but that felt dishonest. So would voting for Tennant.

I decided to just love 'em both and not vote at all.

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josanpq was over today for fun, frolic and goodies. She brought me two seasons of Black Books, which I never heard of before, but she thought I'd enjoy it. And a beautiful book from the National Geographic Society called Men, Ships and the Sea - the great selling point being the flyleaf diagram of a tall ship with all sails furled and labelled, and the ( Read more... )

I had dinner with Beulah at the Green Door restaurant: delicious as always.

Then we came back to my place, and she did a repair job on the wooden chair at my computer desk - she says it's incomplete, but it looks great. The right arm had come off. It's on now. Hooray for Beulah and her tools!

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I finished watching Blackpool this morning. I loved it. As a genre, it pretty much defies description: murder mystery, soap opera, black comedy, musical, psychological drama - bits of all of that mixed together, and I'm not sure it wasn't a morality play more than any of the rest, though what the moral was, I'm not sure ( Read more... )