โItโs discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit.โ
Noรซl Coward
Blithe Spirit
Noel Coward, Deceit
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Beginnings
โBeginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.โ โSam Shepard
โHeโs going to drive that poor girl crazy!โ
The year: 1991
The setting: Pasadena’s Hastings Ranch theaters
The film: Hamlet, directed by Zeffirelli, starring Gibson, Close, Bates, Scofield, Holm, Bonham Carter, etc.
So, we get to the nunnery scene. Ophelia’s nearly in tears.
One grey-haired Pasadena matron turns to her companion, and says, just above a stage whisper:
“He’s going to drive that poor girl crazy!”
{blink}
Never seen this story before, have you, ma’am?
Bitch, you almost made me break character
Lexicon. Wild rephrasing of the original from the movie Chasing Amy:
โโWhatโs a Nubian?โโฆ Bitch, you almost made me laugh.โ
Now, in my defense, this may have been a mashup with a story from my college days. Professor Leonard Pronko put on one of his periodic kabuki productions, this one titled Lancelot Bewitched. The lead, Kevin Costello, was teased by a number of my friends (Mark Vargas, Cathy Kerry, Topher Jaworski, others). Imagine the following delivered to Kevin in the exaggerated style of kabuki:
โThreeeee times! You broke character threeeeee times! And weeee saw you!โ
So I may have taken the laughing and the breaking of character, and merged them.
Itโs a theory, anyway.
Discouraging
โItโs discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty, and how few by deceit.โ
Noรซl Coward
Blithe Spirit
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