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chelseagirl) wrote2006-07-05 10:09 am
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Lovely long weekend.
Saturday we had some people over to watch England lose ignominiously to Portugal in the free kicks, despite my loyally wearing the England team shirt my mum-in-law had sent me a few Christmases back. Afterwards we and one of our guests saw Superman Returns about which the most one can say, really, is "eh." Also, James Marsden needs a new agent, so he doesn't have to keep playing Second Choice Guy.
Sunday I worked, but blessed my boss for sending me a project on the press during the civil rights era.
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misskittytalks and I had our annual Shakespeare in the Park expedition to see Hamlet with Liev Schrieber and Jennifer Ehle. Wonderful production, despite the "eh" reviews , directed by Moises Kaufman of Gross Indecency and Laramie Project fame. Well staged and well-paced, nicely set in a World War II scenario, and the Weird Sisters were particularly effective. I was surprised that Ehle played Lady Macbeth with an American accent; edited to say that mortalwombat731 informs me that she looked her up on the IMDB after seeing the play and what do you know, she's actually American. I never would have guessed from the roles I've seen her in previously. Lots of chemistry between Schrieber and Ehle -- the play has us in the middle of the "Hey let's murder Duncan" scenario quite quickly, but they were able to convey quite a bit about the ongoing relationship of the characters.
Tuesday some friends held their annual Fourth of July brunch. This is a large-scale event, and our group of friends traditionally outlast everyone else, and get quality time with our hosts when they're actually able to sit down and socialize, which makes for a long, but fun, day as brunch stretches way past dinnertime. Lots of Doctor Who talk, which was interestingly problematic as some of the group have only seen Eccleston in the SciFi run and others of us had just seen the first half of the Tennant finale, but luckily, not a spoilerphobic bunch. The vote was that Rose is "dead", not dead, that Daleks can totally take Cybermen, that Mickey has entered unto his full fabulousness, and that we're very much looking forward to next week. And that someone's got to get the rest of the Tennant eps to our poor deprived friends. Waves atkittyjosephine. Wondering how Torchwood, which seems to do everything possible that is stupid and shortsighted, is going to end up as the (presumably) good guys in their own series, about which there were exceptionally varied degrees of glee and anticipation. Did agree that every unsubtle mention of Torchwood this season might as well have had flashing neon lights around it.
Finished Naomi Novik's Throne of Jade and found myself actually more enthused by the end than I have been. The notion of dragon rights and Temerere discovering that dragons could learn to read and write, etc. pushed all the right buttons for me.
Saturday we had some people over to watch England lose ignominiously to Portugal in the free kicks, despite my loyally wearing the England team shirt my mum-in-law had sent me a few Christmases back. Afterwards we and one of our guests saw Superman Returns about which the most one can say, really, is "eh." Also, James Marsden needs a new agent, so he doesn't have to keep playing Second Choice Guy.
Sunday I worked, but blessed my boss for sending me a project on the press during the civil rights era.
Monday,
misskittytalks and I had our annual Shakespeare in the Park expedition to see Hamlet with Liev Schrieber and Jennifer Ehle. Wonderful production, despite the "eh" reviews , directed by Moises Kaufman of Gross Indecency and Laramie Project fame. Well staged and well-paced, nicely set in a World War II scenario, and the Weird Sisters were particularly effective. I was surprised that Ehle played Lady Macbeth with an American accent; edited to say that mortalwombat731 informs me that she looked her up on the IMDB after seeing the play and what do you know, she's actually American. I never would have guessed from the roles I've seen her in previously. Lots of chemistry between Schrieber and Ehle -- the play has us in the middle of the "Hey let's murder Duncan" scenario quite quickly, but they were able to convey quite a bit about the ongoing relationship of the characters. Tuesday some friends held their annual Fourth of July brunch. This is a large-scale event, and our group of friends traditionally outlast everyone else, and get quality time with our hosts when they're actually able to sit down and socialize, which makes for a long, but fun, day as brunch stretches way past dinnertime. Lots of Doctor Who talk, which was interestingly problematic as some of the group have only seen Eccleston in the SciFi run and others of us had just seen the first half of the Tennant finale, but luckily, not a spoilerphobic bunch. The vote was that Rose is "dead", not dead, that Daleks can totally take Cybermen, that Mickey has entered unto his full fabulousness, and that we're very much looking forward to next week. And that someone's got to get the rest of the Tennant eps to our poor deprived friends. Waves at
kittyjosephine. Wondering how Torchwood, which seems to do everything possible that is stupid and shortsighted, is going to end up as the (presumably) good guys in their own series, about which there were exceptionally varied degrees of glee and anticipation. Did agree that every unsubtle mention of Torchwood this season might as well have had flashing neon lights around it.Finished Naomi Novik's Throne of Jade and found myself actually more enthused by the end than I have been. The notion of dragon rights and Temerere discovering that dragons could learn to read and write, etc. pushed all the right buttons for me.
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