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moon_custafer) wrote2025-05-27 02:48 pm
moon_custafer) wrote2025-05-27 02:48 pm
Late May Links and Stuff
Film Noir fanfic vignettes, everybody! (mostly for I Wake Up Screaming)
I seem to be drifting into an obsession with Lionel Bart. Here’s a clip of him in the 1970s visiting the Stratford East Theatre Royal. Having seen a few other photos and clips, the man had a sincere commitment to Hats.
Enjoyed Albert Finney enough in The Green Man that I went looking for Dennis Potter’s Karaoke in which Finney is the protagonist and probable author stand-in (he’s also in the sequel, Cold Lazarus, but it sounds like he’s mostly a frozen head in that one). Accidentally watched the third episode first, which was confusing—I’d a general idea of the plot from the Wikipedia entry, but I was starting to think “oh, so it starts near the end and then tells the story in flashback” and then I kept waiting for the flashback to start. Went back, found the first episode and watched that, which made more sense; although I’m now withdrawing at least half of the sympathy I felt for Richard E. Grant’s character after his beating in Episode Three. Have also decided not to watch this ne with Andrew as there’s at least plot points that would likely be triggery for him.
Have a terrible feeling I’m going to have to read John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra for research purposes-– I mentioned in the latest chapter of Gentleman of the Shade that Eddy acted in a movie adaptation – it was just sort of a throwaway bit, but Mel speculated that Lambkin is going to track the movie down and watch it, and y’know, she’s right.
Have risked starting a new novel, well, multi-chapter original fic, anyway; two chapters posted so far: WWMBD
I seem to be drifting into an obsession with Lionel Bart. Here’s a clip of him in the 1970s visiting the Stratford East Theatre Royal. Having seen a few other photos and clips, the man had a sincere commitment to Hats.
Enjoyed Albert Finney enough in The Green Man that I went looking for Dennis Potter’s Karaoke in which Finney is the protagonist and probable author stand-in (he’s also in the sequel, Cold Lazarus, but it sounds like he’s mostly a frozen head in that one). Accidentally watched the third episode first, which was confusing—I’d a general idea of the plot from the Wikipedia entry, but I was starting to think “oh, so it starts near the end and then tells the story in flashback” and then I kept waiting for the flashback to start. Went back, found the first episode and watched that, which made more sense; although I’m now withdrawing at least half of the sympathy I felt for Richard E. Grant’s character after his beating in Episode Three. Have also decided not to watch this ne with Andrew as there’s at least plot points that would likely be triggery for him.
Have a terrible feeling I’m going to have to read John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra for research purposes-– I mentioned in the latest chapter of Gentleman of the Shade that Eddy acted in a movie adaptation – it was just sort of a throwaway bit, but Mel speculated that Lambkin is going to track the movie down and watch it, and y’know, she’s right.
Have risked starting a new novel, well, multi-chapter original fic, anyway; two chapters posted so far: WWMBD
Just two totally normal men from the 1930s who are definitely not any of the Marx Brothers.
A propos of nothing in particular: 'When That Man Is Dead and Gone.'
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