A Certain Saint
Mar. 17th, 2010 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I hardly need remind you that today is the feast of St Joseph of Arimathea - also known as Joseph of Glastonbury, the first ever saint of Britain. So, don't forget to wear those giant inflatable thorns and speak like a pirate - after all, everyone's from Somerset on St Joe's Day! Have a good time - but do go easy on the cider.
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Date: 2010-03-17 09:03 am (UTC)(I am in bed sipping pink gin, humming Elgar, and doing service to Irish literature).
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Date: 2010-03-17 09:10 am (UTC)You sound wonderfully decadent, in a hard-working way - composing in bed like Rossini (if we substitute The Barber of Seville for The Dream of Gerontius - but what's the diff?)
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Date: 2010-03-17 09:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-17 04:18 pm (UTC)He played Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), which I suppose a whole generation grew up on. I prefer to remember him as someone like Bill Walker in Major Barbara (1941)—I just rewatched it last night (finally on DVD from Criterion, not scratchy library VHS) and he's terrific. I wish William Wyler had been able to get him for Wuthering Heights (1939).
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Date: 2010-03-17 01:34 pm (UTC)