Still in an Amadeus mood, I see the original premiere of the stage play was the occasion of Margeret Thatcher displaying the kind of reality reordering that currently has become almost universal among conservatives of all calibres. Wrote Peter Hall, who directed the original stage production:

She was not pleased. In her best headmistress style, ( Read more... )

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Alas, I won't be able to watch The Good Wife or Manhattan for another week (don't spoil me!), but I can get a hold of the Sleepy Hollow season opener; watch this space. Meanwhile, the weather is splendid, meaning the Aged Parents & self spend most of this week outdoors, and thus there isn't much internet for me. But there is some ( Read more... )

The one advantage if you don't feel passionately about something is that it makes following controversies voyeuristic fun, as opposed to hurtful "but why don't they see....!?!" battle for oneself. My current example is the ongoing reaction to The Iron Lady. (Which I still haven't watched), i.e. the one beyond the "Meryl great, film mediocre" ( Read more... )

There seems to be a consensus across rightist on leftist lines re: The Iron Lady, to wit: Meryl Streep great, film mediocre, though the objections to the later come from different angles. For every complaint from the right that the film offers too much Thatcher in dementia now and not enough Thatcher in charge back then and that this is degrading, ( Read more... )

Thanks to the wonders of the BBC iPlayer - which btw I noticed one, at least I, couldn't use in the States, presumably because BBC America wants cash - I was able to watch the two Margaret Thatcher biopics from last year which have been praised to me by various sources: The Long Road to Finchley (Andrea Riseborough as young Margaret) and Margaret ( ( Read more... )

The downside of finishing your X-Men ficathon story early: realising you won't be able to post it for more than a month. Ah well.

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Idle thought: these last weeks ASH (that's Anthony Head to you non-Buffy and non-Merlin watchers) did some promotion of the ( Read more... )