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Shakespeare's Alternate Endings: Romeo & Juliet
How should Shakespeare's romantic masterpiece really have ended?
CAUTION: bawdy.
Starring Beth Eyre and Mark Bonington, directed by Sean Bye.
Written and conceived by Robin Ganderton.
All complaints to Mr. W. S., Holy Trinity Church, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon.
CAUTION: bawdy.
Starring Beth Eyre and Mark Bonington, directed by Sean Bye.
Written and conceived by Robin Ganderton.
All complaints to Mr. W. S., Holy Trinity Church, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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The Ten-Year Lunch; Wits & Legends of the Algonquin Round Table (Complete)
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The Algonquin Round Table set the standard for literary style and wit beyond its ten-year duration. After World War I, Vanity Fair writers and Algonquin regulars Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Robert E. Sherwood began lunching at The Algonquin. In 1919, they gathered in the Rose Room with some literary friends to welcome back acerbic critic Alexander Woollcott from his service as a war co...
Is that Fred gynne’s voice?
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I had always looked for this documentary. It was worth the wait!
The 1st podcast.
Poor Dorothy. Libido ,with or without alcohol, is tough on a girl in her thirties in a crowd of interesting and horrible men laughing at all her jokes. Imagine an illegal abortion back then with them all in attendance advising her to stop trying to kill herself. Funny not funny, guys.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. I put all my eggs in one bastard. Oh my.
Many self-absorbed people.
Didn't someone once say..?.."Those were the days"..😊
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culture and wit that never will be matched
Please stop the music
All is vanity.
This was FUN. What witty people they were!
Many thanks for this, Impropaganda.
Just about anyone who could string more than two sentences together seemed like a genius, right after WWI and just before talkies came in and the stock market bowed out.
There was a film made a few years ago entitled “Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle.” It sparked my interest in these people.
Have known about this story for years. 10 years EVERY day? No One is that funny or fresh. One of those legions that gets bigger than it ever was and actually ran out of gas about 3 years into it?
Now American literati are only functionally literate. The awful generation of ‘68!
This is obviously white privilege today. Amazing they allow it to be viewed. So sad today.
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all wars are bankers wars.
Robert Benchley was sent to Venice on assignment and he telegraphed his editor with this message - "Arrived Venice, streets full of water - please advise."
Once I sent my sister a text message with a picture of her cat gnawing on my finger with the message “am being eaten by cat, please advise”
Thank you for this enlightening look at those interesting times and people. How much fun to have been if only an spectator then.
Wow... wit! Genuine wit....a long lost commodity in today's illiterate, hostile world. Thank you!
Dorothy Parker was married to a Campbell. Just like Tanya Tucker & Glen Campbell.
Is gaiety, still a word?
In her later years, [Dorothy Parker] denigrated the Algonquin Round Table, although it had brought her such early notoriety: "These were no giants. Think who was writing in those days-Lardner, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway. Those were the real giants. The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting for a chance to spring them ... There was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth ..." Wiki
I read the "Big Joke" cover to cover each week. It's a chore more often than not. The "t" in "Often" is silent.
Thanks. I enjoyed the information re: that cohort of witticisms. In truth, I don't think they were as spectacular as they've been hyped. Talent, and nearly all journalists, who have a command of the English language, they were a group of writers in the right place at the right time. Waspish, acidic? Just a bunch of regular people using their command of language to "burn" colleagues. I had the same experiences in college and the Army, but we weren't published and quoted in 75 newspapers.
Their antics don’t really age well. I guess you had to be there. Edna Ferber was a big talent, and prolific. Robert Benchley seemed to have an idea of what personal dignity is. And Helen Hayes too. Dorothy Parker nailed it when she said they forgot to grow up.
Excellent point.
Witless doc.
A group of queers and closeted queers. Those were the days.
Shuddup
So much more fun than promising to follow social rules you never thought about yet.
Dorothy Parker, on Calvin Coolidge's death: How can they tell?
In the East was the Algonquin...at the same time in the west was W R Hearst's 'San Simeon'.
Ms. Parker was extraordinary in many ways. However, committing suicide was not one of them.
Radio wounded the newspaper trade and television wounded wounded radio. The internet killed newspapers. With each fall they scrape off the unnecessary and opinionated columnists on "the arts" are easily expendable. The true artists found work elsewhere and the rest moulded away.
I think this was made in 1987, been waiting that long to see the whole thing again, I only taped half on my VHS tape. 😊 Can’t believe it took 9 years to find it on YT.
So did they broadcast this thing on the radio or what?
Very interesting distribution here as this was one of the rare occassions resulting in an Oscar AND Emmy nomination. let alone subsequent WINS.
Amazing how the most witless Anglo-Saxon nation on the planet has produced its greatest wits. The English have no excuse for not being witty. Tradition. But if you really want wit, turn to Jewish Americans. Mostly, Americans can't understand how funny they appear to foreigners. Oscar Wilde discovered this in the 1880s!
Have to concur with you there. Masters of satire. But let us not forget how intertwined Jews are with many cultures, let alone the English/Americans. (Think Yiddish. Dress British).
Kauffman & Hart wrote the play, The Man Who Came to Dinner on the premise if Alex Woollcott came to your house and couldn't leave.
LOVE that movie!
Odd to keep hearing Herman Munster pop in. Fred Gwynne's voice is so instantly identifiable. :)
He had a velvet voice. SO sad that loveable character stifled his career.
a somber reminder that even the greatest stars of society and tastemakers will all be forgotten within 2 generations In the end, just a bunch of high society snobs.
You need to be reminded a generation is considered 20-25yrs and this is now a century later. And what the hell is a tastemaker?
Where is America today...that proud, happy America after WW1? Where is the talent, wit and glamour? Broadway, Hollywood, the written word...all have succumbed to sleaze, vulgarity, "woke". Wouldn't those brilliant writers be stunned to hear "woke" used as it is today! Where is heard "Over There" with pride and joy in being an American? I could weep for our beloved country.
I could weep for you too. Commiserations from Scotland 😥
Greed killed it as well as all individual accomplishments. Wall Street now owns your idea before you even get it off the ground.
The animated take on the Al Hirschfeld caricature of the Round Table is just adorable. 🥰
Monumental. Probably his most famous work.
Academy Award Winner for Best Long-form Documentary in 1988. ruclips.net/video/B_MSM0szHxs/видео.html
HARPO MARX, "A TALKER AT LUNCH"? NOT SO! HARPO NEVER SAID ANYTHING. THAT'S WHY THEY APPRECIATED HIM. EVERYONE ELSE WAS A TALKER. HE WAS THE ONLY LISTENER.
I read this also. He himself said he learned a lot just by listening (from Harpo Speaks).
Had to pop back on here for a second. Just after I watched this video, Edna Ferber's Cimarron with Glenn Ford started playing on #gritTV. Talk about serendipity!!
Whose here after watching Gilmore Girls? Yes, I'm late to the rodeo with both.
I’d have preferred a little less material about Wollcott and rather more regarding Parker, Benchley and some the others.
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Wow I love the illustrations in this!
During my "Fawlty Towers" years, I had a Bed and Breakfast guest who shared a Robert Benchley story from her 1930's years as a young New York City actress. At a party that was getting out of control one night, she felt obliged to tell the crowd downstairs to quiet down. "Imagine," she said to me, "telling the great humorist Robert Benchley to stop laughing!"
Oh I love that story! Thanks for sharing!!
I could go on and on, so I'll be careful. When Benchley traveled to Venice, he sent a cable back to his friends, "Streets under water! Please advise!"@@lindavernon8051
@@lindavernon8051 Thank you!