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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 05, 2018, 09:58:43 am ---"I can't say the walls of my bedroom are shrouded with Tom Cruise posters, but in this case ..."
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I don't remember if this goes as far back as Pauline Kael, or if it's more recent, but my all-time favorite appeared in a capsule review of Kenneth Branagh's film of Much Ado About Nothing: "Sometimes all you ask of Shakespeare is Denzel Washington in leather pants."
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(One professional baseball game, in our old ball park. We have "gay nights" at our current stadium, but they never seem convenient, and the complex is so huge I wouldn't want to try to find my way around it by myself. Then again, I don't have the patience to sit through nine innings--or more--of baseball.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 06, 2018, 06:46:30 pm ---I don't remember if this goes as far back as Pauline Kael, or if it's more recent, but my all-time favorite appeared in a capsule review of Kenneth Branagh's film of Much Ado About Nothing: "Sometimes all you ask of Shakespeare is Denzel Washington in leather pants."
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Too bad Denzel wasn't around in Elizabethan England. Shakespeare could have saved himself a lot of trouble!
Jeff Wrangler:
Anybody else notice in the Rachel Kushner article (April 30, p. 23) that there is a bar in San Francisco, called the Pyrenees, that caters to Basque shepherds? ;D
FRiend Lee?
serious crayons:
It's weird that it's in San Francisco. What are shepherds of any kind doing in SF?
My brother used to live in Elko, Nevada, and there were so many Basque shepherds around there was a Basque restaurant that of course served, among other things, lamb. (Yep, I ate the sheep, not guarded 'em.) At the time he was dating a woman whose ex-husband was a Basque shepherd.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 11, 2018, 10:38:54 am ---It's weird that it's in San Francisco. What are shepherds of any kind doing in SF?
My brother used to live in Elko, Nevada, and there were so many Basque shepherds around there was a Basque restaurant that of course served, among other things, lamb. (Yep, I ate the sheep, not guarded 'em.) At the time he was dating a woman whose ex-husband was a Basque shepherd.
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Too early to be sick of beans?
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