Or, Brutus and Another Portia

Ok, so the Caesar connection here is a bit of a stretch, but Diana Rigg does happen to stand out in my memory as my favorite Portia, though that might be due to the fact that she was one of very few good parts in the generally dreadful 1970 Caesar. But I digress.

Evil Under the Sun is a film adaptation of an Agatha ( Read more... )

Or, Another Failed AssassinationTwo years before and nearly two thousand years after a certain other assassination conspiracy, James Mason plays the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who is somehow tangentially involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, only he ends up missing out on the fun. Actually, this whole assassination was even more of a failure ( Read more... )

Or, Enemies, Before They Became Lovers

A year before Caesar, Brutus and Portia were on opposite sides of the line dividing good and evil as the villainous Rupert of Hentzau and the lovely Princess Flavia. To speak rather more plainly than this curious allusion to Ancient Romans wandering around in Ruritanian romance (which term I was pleased to ( Read more... )

Basically, fanvids I have cobbled together and music I have composed to `songs' (or, rather, poems) appearing in novels. The fanvids all link to Youtube. The music compositions all link to files that are stored on a Google-hosted site I have which is devoted to that purpose---Zallah's Fanmusic; the sheet music links will download the respective PDF ( Read more... )