Is everyone getting cabin fever due to the Covid lockdown or simply enjoying all that free paid leave? Of course for many, it is a crippling time if they work freelance, or are just employees of small companies, or gyms or dance studios or yoga studios.
It remains to be seen how/whether the $2 trillion dollar 'bail out' will work for such folk.
Loads of free online streaming (and paid). A few more days to watch The Wooster Group (at their very best) with their avant-garde approach to Racine's Phèdre. The Met Opera has been free-streaming its controversial Robert Lepage Wagner Ring Cycle. Well worth the time 'schlep' and cause for re-appraisal.
The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has announced the launch of Geffen Stayhouse, which will kick off Wednesday, March 25. By signing up, audiences will receive 30-day access to Broadway HD, whose library also includes three Geffen productions: Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Jane Kaczmarek and Alfred Molina (2017)- thanks to Theatermania for the info.
And littlin' ol' me has loads of videos online for free (including Met Museum walk thrus- ah see: and they all thought I was crazy to be wandering' round with my camera instead of taking notes:)! Too much unpaid work so I kinda stopped. Nonetheless edifying. Thomas P. Campbell's tapestry show seems so esoteric and yet is such a vital, fascinating part of art history that went relatively unsung until his Met Museum show.
Apologies for recent ‘gremlins’ on this blog. Clearly the moles don’t want to hear any truths…it was ever thus…
So films etc?
I maybe 'out of sync' but no-one could criticize me for my diligence:
The Loudest Voice (DVD available and I guess elsewhere)- if it initially seems like a bio-pic, well yes it is. Sort of. Everything is factually correct and real, so why watch a fictionalization? I stayed with the whole series. Maybe because the performances feel almost 'documentary'. Also because of Russell Crowe's spellbinding performance under all that make-up and fat-suit. I guarantee no-one of any political allegiance will exit this series without questioning. It is very easy to scapegoat, particularly now in America. Rupert Murdoch is one helluva smart SOB (no offend intended, sir). And it is an easy javelin to say that someone in his position must have known everything. Equally, when Murdoch defended Roger Ailes in a (from memory) Sky interview (not in the series) it was somewhat repulsive when having been confronted with sexual harassment facts for NewsCorp’s head to say 'it was a bit of flirting'. That said, no-one else in his position, even nowadays, would have said much different. Alas.
A Very English Scandal (only available on Amazon Prime) is a 3-parter. Extraordinary true almost comic story if it weren't for an attempted murder orchestrated by the leader of a British political party back in the 1970's. Hugh Grant as the member of parliament. No prosthetics for him but Grant is amazing in his own face, an almost impassivity, implacability at the unfolding events. All other great performancer/s relatively unknown to Americans.
Let me think some more…
Kitty wants to put in a word for Toy Story 4 and Missing Link. Andrew wholeheartedly agrees.!
So maybe I would add (Kitty's asleep- she works so fff'ing hard that cat!- worth salmon in boats!), Ang Lee's Gemini Man (come on: Ang Lee couldn't make a bad film if you tied his hands, gagged, and blindfolded him:) !) A great twist on the science/.thriller whatever genre. To think we would never ever had heard of Clive Owen again if it weren't for a re-run of his Brit film….no spoon-feeding…google IMDB..)
Also: I See You (with Helen Hunt) -seriously creepy (way more so than some more acclaimed). And Booksmart (totally real, Feldstein totally totally)…did I say FUNNY! And yo The Kominsky Method (like Michael Douglas couldn't ever 'get it up again' !) Oh and Alan Arkin..like shouldn't he be vice-president?! :)
t.b. cat…..
Don't quite know how to write what I want to say. OK. One mustn't ever assume that a spouse or sibling has anything to do with, nor indeed knows anything, about what their relative did/does/or will do. I am quite prepared to believe that the wives of both Roger Ailes and Bernie Madoff knew nothing of what was going on. That's not to say they didn't profit from such actions but then, they are rarely alone on the streets and galas of Madison Avenue and NYC and the rest of the grand boulevards!
Then again: I am totally supportive of the MeToo movement. And yet. What profits someone destroying someone's career (without even due legal process) to achieve a victory? What victory? Who says your story is true? Who says it is false? We are back to film noir, aren't we? (The tragedy of The Great Gatsby?) Most folk won't have read, let alone seen, the film Atonement (Ian McEwan's book). How easy it is to ruin someone's life. There is no forgiveness for that. Only empty piety.
These are strange times. Our better self needs be stranger, inquiring. And even stranger still: realizing a friend in the unknown.
