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The first day of 2009, and it's the last 6 days before 'Little Christmas'--

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Aloysius J. Gleek:


--- Quote from: belbbmfan on January 06, 2009, 05:01:06 pm ---You're doing a great job already John.  :) The New York tourist authority should hire you.  :)

*googles 'Jimmy Olson'*

Sorry, the name Jimmy Olson didn't ring any bells. Mmmm, you have a thing for bow ties?  ;)

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Ha!

Jimmy Olsen was the 'cub' photographer at the Daily Planet newspaper (simulacra of New York's Daily News? ), the employee of editor (and nemisis) Perry White, and the colleague of reporters Lois Lane and Clark Kent (Superman). Something of a pest, he ran around New York taking pictures and getting in trouble before Superman repeatedly rescued him (with some fond exasperation).






C'est moi, no? (Or wanna be!)

 ;D

Aloysius J. Gleek:

It's the end of Twelfth Night (January 6), so--

Here's a little bit of it.

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
O Mistress Mine (Feste's Song)
Sir Ben Kingsley                                                        (3:56)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kA2zx8isk[/youtube]



Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Characters in Order of First Lines and Appearance (Actor)

Feste (Ben Kingsley), singing
Sir Toby Belch (Mel Smith)
Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Richard E. Grant)
Maria (Imelda Staunton)
Olivia (Helena Bonham Carter), waking
Duke Orsino (Toby Stevens)
Viola (Imogen Stubbs), disguised as Cesario

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117991/

Ellemeno:
"My" Jimmy Olsen, Jack Larson, from the Superman TV show of my childhood:



My favorite Imelda Staunton role, in Peter's Friends (I love that movie):



My favorite Richard E. Grant role, in The Player (I love that movie too):

Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on January 06, 2009, 12:50:15 pm ---

And I saw my sculpture, Prometheus! :D


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And with my cluelessly luxuriant childhood (cultural-wise), I have always known the statue, but don't remember ever paying attention to the fact that it was of Prometheus.  I'm going to read the Wikipedia posting of it, to see who was hubris-ish enough to see themselves as so Prometheus-like as to warrant a statue.  When I think of that area, I mostly think of the Librairie de France, one of my meccas through the decades.

Ellemeno:
And John, you would make a marvelous Jimmy Olsen.  But you would make a marvelous great many people.  You could be a whole Algonquin Round Table.  :-*


The Algonquin Round Table in caricature by Al Hirschfeld.
Seated at the table, clockwise from left: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood.
In back from left to right: frequent Algonquin guests Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case.

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