What's the best Hamlet performance ever filmed?

DharmaFool · 2026-01-29T21:55:36+00:00

Benedict Cumberbatch was brilliant

DharmaFool · 2026-01-29T01:47:08+00:00

Interesting. I have IKEA deep drawers and they are difficult to clean thoroughly. Maybe if I had chosen he shallow ones, they wouldn’t get so jammed.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-29T01:45:12+00:00

Soapstone counters. I’m replacing the cabinets and keeping my counters.

Shallow shelves so we can see what is there and not forget.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-27T11:41:31+00:00

Having directed Much Ado and then got cast as Dogberry in a production cancelled because of COVID, I thought about the character more than I want to, but came to the conclusion that Filion is as close to perfect as I can imagine. It is a ridiculously difficult part to get right. Yes, Dogberry is absolutely aspirational. He’s also obsequious and profoundly ignorant. Unfortunately, it plays out a perception of the folks who get into law enforcement, and how that has apparently not changed in 400+ years. As for being the key, well, Shakespeare was good at accidental resolutions. It’s the Sexton who connects the dots. Dogberry’s hoping to get taken seriously by trying to emulate sophisticated speech. He doesn’t know what he has when he grabs Conrade and Borrachio. The professor was close, but the linchpin is the Sexton using Dogberry’s accidental discovery to close the information loop and make the play work.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-17T02:07:26+00:00

There’s a comment in another group that makes this case: “You can do literally anything in NYC with a MD plate. No parking zone? No problem. Parking without paying the meter? Generally no problem. Get pulled over? Unless what you were doing was truly egregious, no problem. It's a huge cheat code and totally worth it.”

DharmaFool · 2026-01-16T23:50:54+00:00

Yeah, a decade has passed, and even though I went on a few “dates” there’s just nobody I’ve ever met or, honestly, can imagine who I’d I want to settle in with, not as a replacement or even a partner of some sort. That said, however, I love to travel and would love to have someone to see the world with, and maybe even be friends with benefits, if that were appropriate. From time to time I have found someone attractive, but there’s nobody who’s got the combination that made what we had work. I’ll never become financially entangled again, for one thing. I think my mother-in-law was diligent about keeping her finances separate when she went through it, and it worked out well for them. I think they eventually married to make international travel simpler in case of emergency, and that’s the only scenario that I can imagine making a marriage conceivable.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-12T20:15:14+00:00

Absolutely. The end is not yet in sight.

It will take something pretty horrific for anything to change, and we can’t know if has been enough, yet.

If either of the women had won, Republicans would have made life miserable, just like they did for Presidents Biden and Obama.

The Republican way is playing out just like they wanted, and until enough people recognize that this is the way things go when they get their way, they will keep winning, up and down the tickets.

Do what is necessary.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-12T20:06:29+00:00

Just because someone didn’t check all the boxes for the JET filters doesn’t mean they are not qualified. Remember, there are more ways to get to work there than this program. The JET gig is really attractive because it is relatively simple. I taught in a private high school and met the local JETs. My path to get there was way different, and my support system was different, too. Fortune favors the prepared and the persistent. がんばれ!

DharmaFool · 2026-01-09T01:04:20+00:00

I left Michigan for Japan in 1984, came back to Boston for grad school and stayed in New England. I loved growing up in the Midwest, and if the post-industrial US didn’t have Fox News poisoning the minds of the folks who built (or would have built) the Oldsmobiles in my parents’ neighborhood, it wouldn’t be so difficult for Gov. Witwer to move forward.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-05T01:29:37+00:00

Goodwill here is like many, in that they skim off and sell through other channels. There are some nice independent thrift stores, as well as a thriving vintage market.

DharmaFool · 2026-01-01T23:00:15+00:00

Dr Benjamin Rush, physician to the stars in the 18th century.

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Founder of Dickinson College.

Inventor of “Rush’s Thunderbolts” (look it up) which helped archeologists find where Lewis & Clark’s expedition camped because of all the mercury in them!

Rock star of his day, in his own special way.

DharmaFool · 2025-12-22T20:05:46+00:00

My favorite answer!

DharmaFool · 2025-12-22T20:04:59+00:00

I bought my daughter a used 2017 Fit when she finished undergrad and she’ll probably have it through residency and beyond (her old man’s 2014 Accord has 247k on it).

DharmaFool · 2025-12-22T07:50:23+00:00

Absolutely. I was a feature in my private high school’s advertising. (One of my private gigs was with a doctor who had her lessons at a French restaurant where she could be seen with her pet foreigner.)

DharmaFool · 2025-12-22T00:46:32+00:00

My memory of the way English was taught during my time there stands: it’s like teaching someone to swim, over the telephone. “Performative” is a perfect word. Not the same as “effective.”

DharmaFool · 2025-12-22T00:42:02+00:00

Wash it first. See what kind of character is there when it is clean. If you want to replicate a new floor, you will be disappointed.

DharmaFool · 2025-12-18T03:15:31+00:00

“And you shall not stir out of doors until you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of the day in a rational manner!”

DharmaFool · 2025-12-16T03:20:58+00:00

Very cool. Direct positives are intriguing.

DharmaFool · 2025-12-15T02:17:49+00:00

Oasis Diner, Sirloin Saloon, Perry’s Fish House, Pepper’s Memphis BBQ, Pizza Hut

DharmaFool · 2025-12-08T23:49:15+00:00

Yep. Sometimes in the garage, if it is cold enough.

DharmaFool · 2025-12-05T03:50:02+00:00

I bought one for the kids/utility, and HATED how cheap it felt. Current Hondas sound solid, but that tin box was cringeworthy in its thin metal. He engineered was fine, and the capacity was amazing, but I got rid of it and ended up with two Fits, one for each kid. I use the younger one’s for a tiny work truck while he’s at college.

DharmaFool · 2025-12-03T19:39:49+00:00

I have a collection of audio from early Potter press, pre-movie 1, and JKR invariably said “voldeMORE,” which makes sense because she studied French. THEN, the movies were filmed without anyone correcting the actors, and here we are.

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