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JERUSALEM, THE MOVIE, which Ben narrated for National Geographic, will be released on video in 2016.  Will keep you posted as I hear more, but that just was released via @Jerusalem_Movie on Twitter.  Wish I'd seen it in IMAX.

 

Follow the film's FB page for more announcements.

 

https://www.facebook.com/jerusalemthemovie

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Alex the Dabbler
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BC won another award, this time the TV Choice best actor award, which he arranged for his parents to accept (Sherlock also won the best drama award ):   http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-09-09/be

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Someone did. I think this set of gifs summarize it quite well.

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I love what Ben's face is doing when he tries not to laugh.

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sfmpco Consulting Detective

sfmpco

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Pah.

He won't win.

He never does.

I have honestly given up...

 

I'm not expecting him to win, but I am grateful for the free online telecast as I haven't got a TV and can't otherwise see it.

joanneta1 Detective Superintendent

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For a bonnie lass, besleybean, you are more pessimistic than me, and that is saying a lot, believe you me, since I have been a lifelong pessimist. You only have to open The Chronicles at p.42 to see his up to that point awards, and he has collected a few more since then.

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sfmpco Consulting Detective

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I have a ticket for Oct. 27 and cannot be there.  So if anyone wants a ticket with a fairly good seat, I might add, please let me know.

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Arcadia Consulting Detective

Arcadia

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I have a ticket for Oct. 27 and cannot be there.  So if anyone wants a ticket with a fairly good seat, I might add, please let me know.

 

You'll have to forgive me, but I've already forgotten (if I ever knew :-) ) what this is about. What's on 10/27, and where?

SherlockedCAMPer Consulting Detective

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Hamlet, Barbican, London

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besleybean Consulting Detective

besleybean

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Do some people live on Mars?! Tee Hee.

i have a ticket for the 12th...but I'll ask my pal abut the one for the 27th...

Inge l-w Consulting Detective

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OK, round (I forget what number)! What is so special about a play which has been every actor's dream but which, in essence, is the Oresteia Trilogy by Sophocles transmuted to Denmark? Shakespeare's historical plays at least stand on their own merit, but a pastiche of a trilogy based on Homeric legend should not be such a big deal. Not to mention that since Sir Laurence Olivier went for the Freudian angle, which could also fit Orestes in the original, everybody who is anybody in theatre production has tried to get their oar in. Truth to tell, I am more looking forward to his take on Richard III and the my kingdom for a horse bit, especially since he got Dame Judi Dench to star in it than to the 2b or not 2b soliloquy. However, it was one clever move on his part to avoid being here, there and everywhere during the first months of his child's life. That gentleman has more brains than a lot of his colleagues!

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OK, round (I forget what number)! What is so special about a play which has been every actor's dream but which, in essence, is the Oresteia Trilogy by Sophocles transmuted to Denmark? Shakespeare's historical plays at least stand on their own merit, but a pastiche of a trilogy based on Homeric legend should not be such a big deal. Not to mention that since Sir Laurence Olivier went for the Freudian angle, which could also fit Orestes in the original, everybody who is anybody in theatre production has tried to get their oar in. Truth to tell, I am more looking forward to his take on Richard III and the my kingdom for a horse bit, especially since he got Dame Judi Dench to star in it than to the 2b or not 2b soliloquy. However, it was one clever move on his part to avoid being here, there and everywhere during the first months of his child's life. That gentleman has more brains than a lot of his colleagues!

 

Short version: I don't know. What is so great about Shakespeare in general?

 

I just like Hamlet because I do, I guess. I'm not a Shakespeare fan at all, but I read a really nice annotated version of Hamlet one summer and just sort of fell in love with it. Of course I have no idea how it is usually interpreted or whatever, all I know is that I like the feel of it, I like the sound of the words, and I like Hamlet himself, poor hesitating conflicted soul. I am sure Mr C. ( :lol: I feel like Mrs Elton every time I am too lazy to spell out his whole name, but "BC" always makes me think "before Christ") will do a wonderful job with the character.

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I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare either although I do like reading it. Just like I love reading works done in broad Scots. I do like his comedies but I don't like Romeo and Juliet at all nor am I big on Hamlet either.

Carol the Dabbler Consulting Detective

Carol the Dabbler

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What is so special about a play which has been every actor's dream but which, in essence, is the Oresteia Trilogy by Sophocles transmuted to Denmark? Shakespeare's historical plays at least stand on their own merit, but a pastiche of a trilogy based on Homeric legend should not be such a big deal.

 

Any story is far more than just its basic plotline.  West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet -- but that doesn't automatically make it great, nor does it automatically reduce it to being a pale copy of Shakespeare.  The play / movie must stand or fall on its own merits -- basically, how good a play / movie is it?

 

I think the same applies to a story's history of use and history of interpretation.  Each production or remake must stand or fall on its own merits.

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A fun little shot just before the red carpet walk:

 

 

http://cumberbuddy.tumblr.com/post/111812047574/joewoolfe-family-cumberbatch-selfie-before

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For anyone wondering why Valentine's day was picked for their wedding date (plus a couple of other celebrity interviews):

 

 

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joanneta1 Detective Superintendent

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Oeufs Benedict? Good Heavens , that is exactly what  the Fleming Bond orders on his gourmet rambling in France before he is rudely called back to duty by Miss Moneypenny (an archetypal Janine?) at the beginning of Live and Let die. We are entering Carol's favourite theme of the improbable versus the impossible, plus, it is clear that he is definitely Apple addicted, and it was his own phone he used in SoT, if some of you remember a little discussion in the baby thread. And he makes a very British understatement about the prospective baby, but when I think of all the hard work the participants put into making that thread... Of course, he has truly been blessed in his life, which is the translation of its Latin root, his namesake founded the whole Benedictine order and the first monastic rule canon, and some enterprising members of the order much later created the famous liqueur. He has been blessed up to now and may he be blessed for as long as he lives!

sfmpco Consulting Detective

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That's cute.   :)

 

 

I swear the looked like royalty last night, and they were so loving and lovely to each other.

 

Marriage changes you in ways you can't imagine - Mrs. Hudson.

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Carol the Dabbler Consulting Detective

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THIS

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HILARIOUS

be sure you've heard it all.

 

and swallow your tea before you start

 

Yes, definitely be sure you've heard it all.  It's somewhat repetitious, which just about had me thinking it was a loop.  It isn't.

 

Favorite line (but do listen first!):

 

"My voice just made you pregnant."

 

 

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joanneta1 Detective Superintendent

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The very last thing he says is wonderfully funny, along with his grumble about Shortie solving a case. I do not know how to do spoilers, sorry!

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Arcadia Consulting Detective

Arcadia

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THIS

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HILARIOUS

be sure you've heard it all.

 

and swallow your tea before you start

 

Yes, definitely be sure you've heard it all.  It's somewhat repetitious, which just about had me thinking it was a loop.  It isn't.

 

Favorite line (but do listen first!):

 

"My voice just made you pregnant."

 

 

That's the one that made me glad I took JP's advice and swallowed my tea first.

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