Tagged: Richard III

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The erasure of Tom Bombadil in the definitive cinematic account of Middle Earth is appalling.

Mr Rock is naive to think he’s still living in the 1950s.

Before there was Bono, Mr Springsteen had long been the American Bono.

Richard III was a blonde, his reign was more fun than previously known.

Hastings: More pity that the eagles should be mewed,
Whiles kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

Richard: The world is grown so bad
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

Shakespeare, Richard III

Stronger through the years

Hopefully the Japanese government will put an end to the barbarism that is whaling. It’s time for Japan to join the 21st century.

Once you get past the puritanical morality and gun violence, you’ll find that Americans are capable of both irony and sarcasm.

Governor Chris Christie was thinking of Fort Lee, New Jersey when he referred to the West Bank as the “occupied territories.”

The best Richard the IIIs: Olivier has the right amount of camp; McKellen is massively sinister. All the rest pale in comparison.

Noah lived to be 900 years old, much longer than the Kings of Gondor.