July
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Independence Day: the Movie
The swine returns from the land of the freebies and the home of the depraved
Ulysses contd.:
“You’re looking extra.” – how much social media speak occurs in Joyce? Did it seep through pop culture and permeate the internet?
Success for us is the death of intellect and of the imagination.
Is “time is money” really Roman?
“…aftercourse of both our lives.” “I’ in the first person is used here. Who is talking, and about whom? Bloom about himself and Stephen Dedalus?
Even the act of pushing up one’s spectacles is described allegorically: “…steadied them to a new focus.”
Contumely: insolent or insulting language or treatment
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Hold up! Shut the front door! What what what? Ghost World, the movie based on the comic book, has a Mohammad Rafi song as its first track on the OST:
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I saw John Mahoney’s tribute video mention Tin Men, and a spiral of wiki walking from watching an episode of Frasier (in which Mahoney gave an acclaimed performance) led me to the movie.
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A timestamp spiral on Twitter while updating my Gmail signature for Canada
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The West End adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is the most expensive mounting of a production, yet it failed to win over critics, even though it also had A R Rahman – India’s de facto virtuoso for decades – scoring the musical. {A Life Afloat}
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John Lithgow played Don Quixote! He had Bob Hoskins (of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? fame) as his Sancho Panza.
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Keanu Reeves has played the Buddha/Sidhhartha in Little Buddha
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Mystery Team was the debut for Aubrey Plaza.
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Derek Jacobi narrated the audiobook for Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkien.
