Late May Links and Stuff

[moon_custafer]

Film Noir fanfic vignettes, everybody! (mostly for I Wake Up Screaming)

I seem to be drifting into an obsession with Lionel Bart. Here’s a clip of him in the 1970s visiting the Stratford East Theatre Royal. Having seen a few other photos and clips, the man had a sincere commitment to Hats.

Enjoyed Albert Finney enough in The Green Man that I went looking for Dennis Potter’s Karaoke in which Finney is the protagonist and probable author stand-in (he’s also in the sequel, Cold Lazarus, but it sounds like he’s mostly a frozen head in that one). Accidentally watched the third episode first (ETA-- no wait, it was Episode Four), which was confusing—I’d a general idea of the plot from the Wikipedia entry, but I was starting to think “oh, so it starts near the end and then tells the story in flashback” and then I kept waiting for the flashback to start. Went back, found the first episode and watched that, which made more sense; although I’m now withdrawing at least half of the sympathy I felt for Richard E. Grant’s character after his beating in Episode Three Four Have also decided not to watch this one with Andrew as there’s at least three plot points that would likely be triggery for him.

Have a terrible feeling I’m going to have to read John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra for research purposes-– I mentioned in the latest chapter of Gentleman of the Shade that Eddy acted in a movie adaptation – it was just sort of a throwaway bit, but Mel speculated that Lambkin is going to track the movie down and watch it, and y’know, she’s right.

Have risked starting a new novel, well, multi-chapter original fic, anyway; two chapters posted so far: WWMBD

Just two totally normal men from the 1930s who are definitely not any of the Marx Brothers.

A propos of nothing in particular: 'When That Man Is Dead and Gone.'

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[sovay]

Have a terrible feeling I’m going to have to read John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra for research purposes-– I mentioned in the latest chapter of Gentleman of the Shade that Eddy acted in a movie adaptation – it was just sort of a throwaway bit, but Mel speculated that Lambkin is going to track the movie down and watch it, and y’know, she’s right.

I look forward to the report on the film.

Just two totally normal men from the 1930s who are definitely not any of the Marx Brothers.

I love that photo.

I would have seen Albert Finney first in Annie (1982), which I'm still not used to, but he's really terrific in The Dresser (1983), which is also where I got watching Tom Courtenay in anything.

[pedanther]

It's true that he's a frozen head in Cold Lazarus, but it's a frozen head that's being used for an experiment in extracting memories via neurological scanning, so from what I recall Finney still gets a fair bit to do in flashbacks and the like.

On the subject of Marx Brothers in unfamiliar outfits, have you seen the Harpo Marx episode of I've Got a Secret?

[moon_custafer]

I have but not recently. There's also an interview somewhere with Chico's daughter, iirc, about how one day when they were touring she skipped the matinee because she'd seen it a hundred times and wanted to get her hair done instead, and came back to find out her father and uncle had (according to them) swapped roles onstage to see if she noticed.