Andrew: You should know what the ‘animal public’ are like by now! Just please be careful and behave yourself or they’ll ruin you. That baby red squirrel is worse than you, I have to admit. He/she is a red devil chasing those ordinary squirrels. Like a Ferrari! So don’t go there! I do admire the courage, though.
Kitty: [gives this some thought with furrowed brows]
One more day to see for free the unmissable Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse, London). This won’t bring one much ‘cheer’, but it’s searingly brilliant. An amazing, believable ‘prison’ cast. One of Fiona Shaw’s best performances (well I’ve missed many) but sure it is;) no-one can really be singled out, though. Sure packs an almighty punch. As it should.
Gore Vidal's play The Best Man (on demand for $5) October 14 at 8:00pm EST, and will then become available to watch on demand for a 72-hour window. Saw this way back when (in the 90’s ? ) and was wowed. A lot of ‘talk’ but what talk! Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman plays the ex-President and the company of actors includes John Malkovich, Zachary Quinto, Vanessa Williams, Stacy Keach, Tony Award winners Phylicia Rashad and Reed Birney, Robert Sella and Katie Finneran. The director is Michael Wilson, who staged the acclaimed 2012 revival.
Andrew: Here's something (else) to aspire to Kitty-
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
then there's
The World Science Festival
And for some cheering up:
Stars in the House have another Frasier re-union. One could do a lot lot worse than Winter binge-watching re-runs of this ever-so-funny-and-poignant TV series. Think I'll ditch Fame. Well, maybe not entirely. All these things one never allowed oneself to watch as you worshipped Merce Cunningham:)
Andrew: OK: Mame should be our Saturday Night Movie. If any creature needs to …
Kitty: [her look, why so?]
Andrew: "I won't send roses, or hold hold the door…"
Kitty: Ahhhh….I know who that is…."It only takes a moment,"
Andrew: Angela Lansbury just turned 95! Unbelievable. She outlived them all!
Kitty: Maybe cats have nine lives after;) "The best cats in London..:)
As CBS’s Dr. LaPook advises: Open a New Window…
There is but one day more (unless you wants 'binge watch' the trilogy) to see the Donmar Warehouse's Henry IV. There's something deeply, deeply disturbing in this production for those who may have lived decades in the U.K. Abroad, few could say hey have never met a 'Falstaff', let alone... This is from December 2016, staged six months after the Brexit referendum. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, whose name Americans may know from a little Broadway show TINA: The Tina Turner Musical. Let alone….
The Goodman Theatre is set to stream the 1999 Tony Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman starring the late Brian Dennehy in the leading role of Willy Loman through Oct. 25. Don't want to watch this play again. But I must. Another story, but I've seen it dozens and dozens of occasions and always it eats away at me.
t’b’c
Wo war ich schon einmal und war so selig?
“Everything seems to mean something, everything that exists, everything that I can remember, everything in the most muddled of my thoughts. Even my own heaviness, the usual dullness of my brain, seems to mean something: I feel a blissful and utterly eternal interplay in me and around me, and amid the to-and-fro there is nothing into which I cannot merge.
None of them, standing with doffed cap before the door of his house while I ride by of an evening, will have any idea that my glance, …..that my eye lingers long upon the ugly puppies or upon a cat stealing stealthily among the flower-pots; and that it seeks among all the poor and clumsy objects of a peasant's life for the one whose insignificant form, whose unnoticed being, whose mute existence, can become the source of that mysterious, wordless, and boundless ecstasy." The Lord Chandos Letter (Hofmannsthal, 1902)
Marschallin stützt den Kopf auf die Hand.
Eine eine schwarze Katze erscheint in der Tür. Sitzt. Vom Mondlicht gestreichelt.
Vorhang.
(Hofmannsthal's hitherto undiscovered early draft of Der Rosenkavalier's final page:)
Thanks to Claudio Abbado for the ‘treasure map’ to Hofmannsthal’s ‘chat’ Urtext;
