where the Stratford theater crowd hangs out

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This is the streetside patio at the Dirty Duck, right down the street from the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon… and it’s where lots of actors stop by for a pint after the show. There wasn’t a theater crowd the night I took this shot, but a few nights later, the patio was mobbed by … more…

trailer break: ‘Fireproof’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Oh noes! Kirk Cameron is a hero with everyone in the whole wide world except his wife! And a real man’s gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else, or he ain’t a real man. Promise Keepers: The … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #38

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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

off to the theater…

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It’s going on 6pm here in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Hamlet — which is an almost unexpurgated version running close to four hours — starts at 7:15…

a few ‘Doctor Who’ish scenes from Stratford-upon-Avon

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One fish-and-chips takeaway place clearly knows what audience it’s catering to at the moment: Found this in a shop called Past Times, which sells doodads aimed at Anglophiles that recall earlier and more romantic eras. This charming bit of nostalgia apparently hails from the 1950s: it is a tabletop-size replica of a thing that police … more…