I fear I haven’t much to share with you today. I spent the afternoon and this morning reading the script for A Man for All Seasons. As I said on Instagram, I’ve been working in theater for over 40 years and I have never liked reading scripts. Never. So I tend to put that duty off until I have no choice. Since I just learned that I will be spending some time in the city tomorrow checking in on a production of that play that I’ve agreed to coach, I figured I’d better get on with it.
I will spend the rest of the day today working on the script, checking pronunciations for a standard British dialect, looking up my notes on a Spanish dialect, and looking up Latin pronunciations. I know nothing about Latin so I always hope that the actors have already figured all of that out, but in case they haven’t, I’ll have to see what I can find out.
Alas, the sun that has been in evidence for the past few days has disappeared and it looks to be a gloomy day out there.
We watched Stagecoach on TCM last night – one of my favorite movies. I’ve never been a John Wayne fan but he is just wonderful in this movie. Heartachingly sincere and subtle in his acting choices, something he wasn’t as known for later in his career. Claire Trevor will break your heart. The supporting cast is wonderful. And directed by the great John Ford, filmed in Monument Valley. I’ve seen it many, many times, and I never get tired of it.
Okay. I have to go and get to work.
Happy Wednesday.
Good morning Claudia!
I picked up that same exact little Shawnee duck planter recently at a new to me thrift store I found on the Eastern Shore! When I saw it my immediate thought was “Just like Claudia’s”! I quickly scooped it up for $4. A happy addition to my vintage pottery collection!
I am always amazed at people who can speak with different accents! It’s so jarring to hear Hugh Laurie and Andrew Lincoln to talk with their native British accents, when I’m accustomed to how they sound in their roles on American TV shows! I hope you have a terrific day!
So glad you found one of those adorable planters, Kim! Congrats!
I envy you “A Man For All Seasons.” A thousand years ago, the nuns at my boarding school in the Hudson Valley bundled us into their little blue bus and took us into the city to see Paul Scofield in it. Wish I could go back in time to experience that performance again
Oh, lucky you! I’m such an admirer of Paul Scofield. One of the greats!
I’m glad that I appreciated his great performance even at that age.
xo
Ooh, “A Man for All Seasons.” LOVED that movie!! I was 10 or so when it came out but didn’t see it until it ran on TV a few years later. I remember it was a very snowy Sunday afternoon & my Dad, a huge movie fan, always chose what we watched [back then, Sunday afternoons in the Winter were virtually the only time Dad spent in our living room]. I fell in love with Paul Scofield – what an actor!! I heard he actually turned down a knighthood – how’s that for humble?? Good luck with the play. Peace.
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My favorite quote from Paul Scofield: “I decided a long time ago I didn’t want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don’t think it’s a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.”
Such a wonderful actor and humble soul.
Wow, now I love him even more! And I agree with him completely. Ever since I was a tiny little kid, I’ve been baffled as to why those in “show biz” become famous, admired etc for their work. Never understood the whole celebrity thing. Never seemed quite fair to me. So until plumbers and nurses – and teachers and trash collectors – and lab researchers and farmers – become famous for what THEY do, I won’t be happy about it either. End of soapbox – LOL. Have a great day!! 🎄
I agree! xo
Love your little house! My mom has ones the size for a train garden that my great uncle made many years ago. I saw little kits to make ornament size ones years ago, they turned out so cute!! I’ll try to find my photos and share on IG.
Do share them, Lee! I love these little houses!
Claudia, I find accents fascinating, as I do words and phrases and their meanings in different cultures. I’m currently reading The Year of Living Danishly, and am fascinated with the Danish concept of living happily, as is, apparently, the author who used to live and work in London. The Danes have a word loosely meaning “happiness at work” and there is no equivalent single word in any other language. The Japanese, she notes on the other hand, have one word that means “death from overwork”. I know for the most part that you have “arbejdsglaede”
And that you never have “karoshi”!
My daughter submitted her senior thesis last night, with about 10 minutes to spare before the deadline of 11:59 pm, PST, so I’m taking her out today for play time. Lunch and browsing. Long gone are the days of writing or typing out papers. Every one of her papers is submitted on-line. She curls up in my rocker glider, where, I nostaligically remember, I used to nurse her, and now she’s writing her college senior thesis. I ask her where her reference materials are, since I remember writing papers with journals and texts open all over the floor. “Oh, I have them on-line, Mom, open in different windows. See?”
Ok, back to calculating how much fabric I need to sew curtains for three of my Mom’s rooms…I’m using a pencil, graph paper, and a calculator. Old school. Fifty years from now, I wonder what will be old school for her?
I can’t believe that everything is online now! I’m sitting here right now doing research for the play, with papers and books all around me. I can’t imagine doing it any other way!
Sounds like you have a busy day ahead of you. I just made a pumpkin pie for my ladies luncheon that I’m hosting tomorrow. After my break. we’ll be decorating the tree…fa la la! ;)
May I have a piece of pie, please??
Sure thing!! ;)
My big kid is obsessed w Latin! I am low-tech, but if you need us, just reply & tell me how to reach you or have you reach me not so publicly :)
They have it covered, thank goodness. Thanks so much for the offer!
Just now reading your blog post. Yesterday was such a long day. I had Mom at the dentist at 9am. They took impressions to try to fix her lower denture. I returned her home then ran errands (including a stop at the library) and then took her back to the dentist at 3pm. It didn’t fit and after 90 mins they scheduled her another appt in Jan to try again. Poor Mom. So we went out to eat, came home and collapsed in front of the tv. I am planning a day HOME to rest, play with my Christmas decor and read. Whew! Hope you day went well. Hugs.
I hope you got a nice day at home yesterday, Linda!
hope the prep work’s gone well. you are detail-oriented so am sure it did.
how many languages can you read/speak?
nice to have some ‘fall back’ things we can count on to bring relaxation and enjoyment, huh? i, too, can watch certain movies and read some books over and over, knowing well the plot and some lines, but that’s okay … i just love them! for me, that includes any old western or movie made when they could only be in black and white, “enemy of the state” (or anything else with gene hackman as long as it’s not super-violent), “you’ve got mail” and “shop around the corner”, “sleeping with the enemy” (i love/need happy endings) and books like “bayou farewell” (non-fiction about louisiana losing wetlands at an incredibly sad and scary rate due to rerouting of the mississippi river decades ago that made hurricane katrina much worse) …
one-third of the way through knitting sock two for a Christmas present so movies and books have to wait a while longer!
hope you have a great day!
kathy in iowa
Coaching a dialect doesn’t involve knowing a language. It’s just knowing how someone who is not a native English speaker would sound when trying to communicate in English. That involves knowing the particular sounds of a language that differ from our sounds. But you don’t have to speak the language.
Have fun knitting the socks!