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Angels in Palo Alto

August 21, 2017

(Part One yesterday at the Aquarius Theatre, 11 to 3:30. A screening of the National Theatre Ensemble, London, production.)

Just stunning: remarkable staging, extraordinary performances, and of course the play. A poster for the NTE production:

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Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough, James McCardle

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One: Millennium Approaches & Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, directed by Marianne Elliott. Original broadcasts to cinemas 20 and 27 July; Palo Alto screenings 14 and 21 August, and 20 and 27 August

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On the shirtless hunk watch: the Skarsgård Tarzan

December 10, 2015

The illustration:

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From a piece in BuzzFeed yesterday, “the first images of the live-action film, The Legend of Tarzan, have been released and they are quite simply [hot hot hot]” by Kimberley Dadds:

The first official stills, featuring Alexander Skarsgård as the main man Tarzan, were released on Wednesday and they’re heavenly.

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Morning Name: Park Overall

December 10, 2015

Morning name on the 8th: Park Overall, the actor.

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June’s L&G news

June 15, 2015

Two pieces of recent news from the L&G world: a Tony for Fun Home (on the L side), a NYT interview with the French ambassador to the US (on the G side). Bonus on the G side: a photographic tribute to David Hockney.

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Identities

June 10, 2015

Today’s Zippy, continuing the story of Lazlo Crannich:

To remind you: Lazlo Crannich is an actor who performs the character of Zippy the Pinhead: when you see Zippy in public, you’re actually seeing Lazlo, and who knows where the real Zippy is or what he’s doing. So Lazlo is a kind of double — a permanent double, so to speak. Lazlo has a (very constrained) private life under his own name, which we catch glimpses of in the strip, but Zippy’s private life is forever invisible to us. It’s a kind of magic irrealism., a counterpart to the literary magic realism I write about here every so often.

In my own fiction writing about two people called Sundance and Butch, there’s a good bit of magic realism, plus a lot of play on identities, names, and the performance of characters.

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Nook and Crannich

June 9, 2015

Two recent Zippys, continuing the story of Lazlo Crannich, Zippy’s character actor:

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Hasn’t the world had enough of Zippy the Pinhead? he cries out in despair. But then it’s back to the job, the job of being Zippy.

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Sam Waterston

May 31, 2015

In the June 1st New Yorker, a brief piece “Stormy Weather: Sam Waterston plays Prospero, at the Delacorte” by Hilton Als:

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Illustration by Simón Prades

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Hawaii Five-0 hunks

March 14, 2015

(Not much linguistics here.)

In the middle of the night on Saturdays here the TNT network shows re-runs of the current Hawaii Five-0 tv series, so I’m kept alert by acrobatic fistfights, exchanges of gunfire, and car chases all over scenic Hawaii. And the banter between the two principal characters — it’s a buddy drama, a bro show — with significant interludes of muscular shirtlessness.

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