I still think he was better in "Dangermouse."
I thought Cleese was the best. After all, it's a variant of the Silly Walk.
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Following your links I just now found Molesworth's Twitter account!
My Dear Friend moved to NC from Pittsburgh in his high school years. Under this new state administration, in the post-King era, Blacks and Whites went to school together. His school had a Black principal. It seemed peaceful. He hates what has happened there recently.
I daydream a miniseries based on _Seven Day Magic_, set in the late '50s or early '60s, and drenched in the atmosphere of the period. Along with the epic fantasy you get the deaths of the settlers of the frontier, and (more trivially) the end of the golden ages of TV and Broadway.
Cable or PBS, with no ads.
I think not so much "The Book of Three" as "Taran Wanderer."
Gee, my heart leapt when I saw the illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. Then you didn't mention him.
Aren't we all?
I really appreciate casting directors who can cast adults and children and have you say, Yes, they are the same family.
"The world is a miracle of science!
Lauren Bacall . . . Humphrey Bogart . . .
. . . And the Bruces sketch, which moves into the Philosopher's Song.
"The Cowboys of Moo Mesa"?
I would wish that this isn't true, for the same reason that I dislike polite behavior being called "courtly." I would hope that this self-sacrificing affection is simply characteristic of friendship, rather than of romance.
The animated "Fraggle Rock." Ugh. The first episode had, as its plot point, the characters having a map. Much worse than the imaginative, socially- and psychologically-based plots of the original series.
Blocking is a big part of the drama. There is a contrast between the closed-in spaceship interior and the scenes with the families in the open: even with the curtains of leaves, there's a feeling of freedom. This plays in to the theme. What you thought was an ending — you're dead — instead has more hope, more…
Also works as a parody of attitudes toward homosexuality.