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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-06-06 01:26 AM
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OMG, "A Midsummernight's Dream" is the funniest play ever!
I mean, they way the Mechanicals mangle Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe.... what a howl!
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-06-06 01:30 AM
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1. I hope Shakespeare pays Joel Hodgson royalties
Edited on Thu Apr-06-06 01:31 AM by jpgray
I mean, Demetrius is clearly just Tom Servo with a conical breastplate, for example. The Rude Mechanicals are a Lippert film.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-06-06 01:31 AM
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2. And Richard III is actually just Ian McKellan.
Yeah, what up with that?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-06-06 01:34 AM
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3. Judi Dench was cuter in 1968
Edited on Thu Apr-06-06 01:35 AM by jpgray
But as an actress (and fairy queen) she was quite green.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-06-06 01:41 AM
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4. Hey, everybody was cuter in 1968...
...except Charles Manson.
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