tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post1947125548300658745..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Kit Marlowe Speaks / TOF: ImpromptuK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-25835097846033036042011-02-11T17:18:58.899-05:002011-02-11T17:18:58.899-05:00D'oh -- "shown" that ought to be, of...D'oh -- "shown" that ought to be, of course!C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-80816372186669793402011-02-11T17:18:04.956-05:002011-02-11T17:18:04.956-05:00Lynn, you're right: he's show to be physic...Lynn, you're right: he's show to be physically frail and a few times overtly feminized in a very broad way, but he does indeed make plain his thoughts and opinions. In part I think they overplay the feminized aspects to make the eventual consummation pay off more -- which I don't think is necessary.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-43056562443419818722011-02-10T17:33:54.401-05:002011-02-10T17:33:54.401-05:00Thanks for the reminder of a personal favorite tha...Thanks for the reminder of a personal favorite that I haven't watched since it was first released. The Judy Davis performance sells the movie all by itself; Grant, Patinkin and Peters are just icing on the cake, and I forgot about Emma Thompson entirely!<br /><br />I have to dispute your characterization of Chopin as "weak," though, even as protrayed in Impromptu. He's physically frail, yes, but a gifted and dedicated composer and a man who can speak to a force of nature like George Sand both politely and firmly. Unassuming maybe, but not weak.Lynn Schlatterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16229606548672665801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-41981628599459637482011-02-08T13:30:57.337-05:002011-02-08T13:30:57.337-05:00I'm practicing my jink stack and doubtless it ...I'm practicing my jink stack and doubtless it will form the heart of our assault on the city of cheese steaks. I think this was just before Thompson's star began to rise in Hollywood anyway -- she already had had her own series in Britain. <br /><br />I liked <i>Becoming Jane</i> a lot more than I expected, for just those reasons. The more gloomy <i>Miss Austen Regrets</i> just made her seem joyless and bitter. Bitter I can believe, but not joyless. Much as I love Olivia Williams, it was not very satisfying.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-6075570737492860552011-02-08T12:38:26.672-05:002011-02-08T12:38:26.672-05:00Ah...one advantage of BECOMING JANE is the deft na...Ah...one advantage of BECOMING JANE is the deft nature with which it suggested the drawbacks and frustrations of the writing life, whether for young Austen, or even for the Stephen King of her even more misogynist and classbound time, Ann Radcliffe. But (the oddly unbilled) Emma Thompson would certainly spark my interest among the cast, and the subject has built-in appeal.<br /><br />Just watch how high y'all stack those jinks...we have union regs, here in Philly.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com