Oh, MARK.
I woke up and clicked over to the New York Times, as I tend to do of a morning. I saw another article about the Tony's, this time starting to ruminate on what the awards will mean commercially for the nominated shows and winners.
And then I found THIS tacked onto the end:
Finally we come to the strange case of Mark Rylance, who won the Tony for best actor in a play for his performance in “Boeing-Boeing.” Mr. Rylance’s acceptance speech began thus: “When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc. Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side.”
The whole speech was like that, eliciting some rather entertaining reaction shots. As it turns out, the speech was a prose poem by a Minnesota writer named Lewis Jenkins. Mr. Rylance also quoted Mr. Jenkins at the Drama Desk Awards last month. Mr. Rylance told the show’s press agent that he was not going to be answering the telephone on Monday. from here
MARK RYLANCE, I LOVE YOU SO HARD. Get ON with your crazy self.
Seriously- I love this man. I think he's a MASSIVELY talented Shakespearean actor who also looks damn good in a skirt- that's him as Olivia in my icon, but you should see pictures of his Cleopatra one day. YOWZA. ;) When I met him last year, I found that he also radiates this quiet goodness that is incredibly endearing to behold.
He is also batshit crazy. Let there be no bones about it. BATSHIT. He's a Baconian, likes to produce plays on ley lines, IS A BACONIAN, and just... I could go on, honestly I could. But I think that he pretty much makes his own case, doesn't he? BLESS. :D
And then I found THIS tacked onto the end:
Finally we come to the strange case of Mark Rylance, who won the Tony for best actor in a play for his performance in “Boeing-Boeing.” Mr. Rylance’s acceptance speech began thus: “When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc. Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side.”
The whole speech was like that, eliciting some rather entertaining reaction shots. As it turns out, the speech was a prose poem by a Minnesota writer named Lewis Jenkins. Mr. Rylance also quoted Mr. Jenkins at the Drama Desk Awards last month. Mr. Rylance told the show’s press agent that he was not going to be answering the telephone on Monday. from here
MARK RYLANCE, I LOVE YOU SO HARD. Get ON with your crazy self.
Seriously- I love this man. I think he's a MASSIVELY talented Shakespearean actor who also looks damn good in a skirt- that's him as Olivia in my icon, but you should see pictures of his Cleopatra one day. YOWZA. ;) When I met him last year, I found that he also radiates this quiet goodness that is incredibly endearing to behold.
He is also batshit crazy. Let there be no bones about it. BATSHIT. He's a Baconian, likes to produce plays on ley lines, IS A BACONIAN, and just... I could go on, honestly I could. But I think that he pretty much makes his own case, doesn't he? BLESS. :D