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She heaped lavish praise on my favourite Shakespeare company, the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia (pronounced STAN-ton). If you're every vacationing hereabouts, I strongly recommend it. They do 3-5 plays in repertory, 12 actors doing all the roles in all the plays. The Blackfriars Theatre is a replica of Shakespeare's original Blackfriars in London. They do basic stuff: no sets, minimal costuming, brilliant Shakespeare. I've seen far better Elizabethan/Jacobean theatre there (at about $36 a ticket, about 1/3 of the price of a ticket to the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington) than I have at "major" companies like the Royal or even (forgive me) Stratford.
I read Ian Fleming's books long before there was a movie. In the first movies , Bernard Lee played M. Judi Dench, while
a great actress, the character M, in Fleming's books, M was a man. Brocolli(sp)and that other bookend, have taken so
much licence with the Bond books and the Bond characters that they are becoming unreccognizable
a great actress, the character M, in Fleming's books, M was a man. Brocolli(sp)and that other bookend, have taken so
much licence with the Bond books and the Bond characters that they are becoming unreccognizable
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8O caaaaaaaaaaaaaaareful *sniff*
lol..thanks for the recommendation, it sounds like they have gone back to how it was done "originally", which is very cool...it's been a while since I did a "theatre" night. can't drag my guy there for nothin'
says ya can't understand a word... I've told him it's only for the first ten minutes and then poof...it's like you "get it".. *sigh* I think he should read Chaucer then he would think it was easy.
Here is the history of names for Bond's bosses names. Always great trivia to have...
What is M’s Real Name? | Being James Bond
What is M’s Real Name? | Being James Bond
I started reading Ian Fleming's James Bond books in about 1954, The first was Casino Royal. Fleming wrote all of his books
over the next ten years. Bond had an earlier career in the British Navy during WW2 where he achieved the rank of Commander. A rank he held before joining the Secret Intelligence Service. My point is, that Bond would have been forty five or fifty years old at the
end of ww2. The struggle to find younger and younger actors to play Bond is a bit confusing. By my calculations Bond, if he were alive today, would be a hundred and thirteen years old.
over the next ten years. Bond had an earlier career in the British Navy during WW2 where he achieved the rank of Commander. A rank he held before joining the Secret Intelligence Service. My point is, that Bond would have been forty five or fifty years old at the
end of ww2. The struggle to find younger and younger actors to play Bond is a bit confusing. By my calculations Bond, if he were alive today, would be a hundred and thirteen years old.
Yeah, she's pretty cool. Quite versatile, too. Not only has she done M, but also the wraithlike Aereon in The Chronicles of Rid d ick {f'n moronic censor gadget} sci-fi flick, Jean Pargetter in the British comedy series "As Time Goes By", and loads of other goodies. And she was and is quite foxy, IMO:
Dame Judi is both a Dame (British sense) and a dame (American sense). She's exactly what that pathetic, overcompensating delayed-adolescent Bond needs.