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Infinite Variety: Slings & Arrows Season 1 Episode 4
Slings & Arrows Episode 3 ended on a cliffhanger as a duel broke out between Geoffrey and Darren. As we open Episode 4, Ellen’s house looks a bit like Elsinore must have looked in Hamlet Act V. Much of her furniture may not have survived, but what of her cast mates? Where are they as…
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Infinite Variety: Slings & Arrows Season 1 Episode 3
Despite becoming Interim Artistic Director as well as custodian of former director Oliver’s skull, the one thing Geoffrey does not want to do is direct the company’s production of Hamlet. But can he sit back and watch as the production is handed over to his arch-nemesis? Amid the backdrop of Geoffrey’s supposed madness, we also…
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Infinite Variety: Slings & Arrows Season 1 Episode 2
Episode two covers episode two of Slings & Arrows. Despite calls for “More Shakespeare,” Duane and Keith find a considerable number of connections to Hamlet, the play the rest of Season One will cover. Here’s an image of the memorial service at the New Burbage Theatre—we talked about how tacky and overwrought it was, but…
- Loyal readers probably know that Bardfilm and I finally did something we’ve talked about for years — we started a podcast! The Infinite Variety Podcast Infinite Variety: The Shakespeare Rewatch Podcast will involve us watching anything inspired by Shakespeare—movies, television shows, music videos, commercials … If we can watch it and find some Shakespeare in […]
- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30038654/window-cleaner-portrait-william-shakespeare-worth-200m This week, I spotted an article in The Sun about a “new” Shakespeare portrait that could be the “first ever”. So you know I’m clicking that. And my first thought is, “I think I’ve seen that before?” But I can’t quite place it. I remind myself what the Flowers Portrait looks like — nope, […]
- If I had a nickel for every time the Globe Theatre had to be evacuated over stray fireworks, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
- Bardfilm and I have done it, we've created our very own Shakespeare podcast. Listen and subscribe to "Infinite Variety: The Shakespeare Rewatch Podcast"!
- Do people remember Rain Main (1988)? Given the subject matter—Tom Cruise discovers that he’s got an autistic older brother, played by Hoffman, and immediately kidnaps him to go scam casinos—and the time period (1980s), I wonder if it’s one of those movies that, as they say, “didn’t age well.” That doesn’t mean some stuff isn’t […]
- Amend, Bill. Some Clever Title: A FoxTrot Collection Blah Blah Blah. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2016.Welcome back for another FoxTrot Friday!The volume Some Clever Title: A FoxTrot Collection Blah Blah Blah is the third of the Sundays-only FoxTrot books. There are fewer comics in those volumes, which means less opportunity for Shakespeare to find his way in. Yet […]
- “The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding: Part 1.” By Greg Malins. Perf. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, and Gary Oldman. Dir. Kevin Bright. Friends. Season 7, episode 23. NBC. 17 May 2001. DVD. WarnerBrothers, 2013.Alert readers will know that I prefer more Shakespeare to less, but my ears are attuned to picking up […]
- Meyerson, Amy. The Bookshop of Yesterdays. New York: Park Row, 2019.I found The Bookshop of Yesterdays while searching for anything Shakespeare-related that I could load from my library onto a Kindle to dip into easily. Its plot involves a woman named Miranda Brooks (so we see the connection to The Tempest right away) who receives a mysterious package […]
- Ferris, Joshua. Then We Came to the End. New York: Back Bay Books, 2008.This summer, I read Then We Came to the End. I knew nothing about it except that it was supposed to be humorous.I found it hysterical and compelling—but not in any obvious way. The most intriguing thing about it was the narrator. […]
- Amend, Bill. Jasotron: 2012: A FoxTrot collection. Andrews McMeel: Kansas City, 2012. I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten about FoxTrot Fridays. Heaven forfend! It's just that the school year started, and that makes it difficult to prioritize blog posts on Shakespeare-related comic strips.As things fall into place in the fall semester, free time becomes less of […]