Doctor Who thing: birthday treats for bronxbee
Today is my very best friend bronxbee’s birthday, so this is for her…
Lalla Ward
watch it: 1980s Prime Computer ads (with Tom Baker and Lalla Ward)
Oh, wow. Where to begin even calculating the awful? I’d probably start with the typo — “ITS’” — in the first ad (if the computer’s grammar is that bad, I’m not gonna trust it to do anything), and then move on to the painful sexual innuendo in the last two ads. Prior to this, I … more…
to be or not to be: Derek Jacobi as Hamlet
To be or not to be? Is there a third choice somewhere in the middle? I’m astonished to discover that I’m not crazy about this Hamlet, either the production on the whole or Jacobi as the melancholy Dane. Though much of that is a function of the production values of the time and my own … more…
