For a presentation we’re doing at work, I need the image of a mystery behind a door. And the first thing that came to my mind is an old movie poster that shows this big dark, mysterious door, and there’s light peeking out around all the edges from the other side. Standing in front of the door is a little kid in his pajamas, like he’s trying to decide whether to open it. Anybody have any idea what I’m talking about? My first thought was Poltergeist, and others have said that too, but I can’t find this image associated with that movie. That movie is famous for the girl sitting in front of the television screen. Another thought was Close Encounters, where the door is open and the kid is watching the space ship land, but I don’t think that’s what I was thinking of. Anybody know what I’m talking about? It’s killin me! (My apologies for the offtopic post. I figured my regular readers will forgive me :))
Would You Rather Do What Now?
http://redshrt04.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/would-you-rather-wednesday-week-4/ Our dear friend Shakespeare makes an appearance as part of a very unusual game of “would you rather”…
Comcast Commercial
Comcast (the US cable provider) is running a new commercial for their “high speed” service that shows two actors performing the death scene from Romeo and Juliet. The gimmick is they’re in a hurry, so they rush through it. They actually seem to stick to script (I didn’t care enough to actually see how accurate they were). I think it would have been funnier if Juliet actually said “Blah blah, yadda yadda, oh happy dagger….” Not terribly funny, and I have no smart comments, I just felt obliged to acknowledge it :).
Claymotion Romeo and Juliet
http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/video/j_mill_complete_video.mov This isn’t what I thought it was going to be. It’s Romeo and Juliet, sort of . With space aliens.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets : With 300 Years Of Commentary
I recently received a press release for Carl Atkins’ new book, Shakespeare’s Sonnets : With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. This isn’t just another printing of the collection, this is a hefty volume that attempts to pull together and collate 17 different “scholarly editions” of the sonnets in order to compare the differences between them. Most interesting to me is that the sonnets are all published with the original spellings and punctuation in tact. There’s even a sample file available weighing in a 78 pages, including all 154 sonnets in their original form (just none of the commentary, that’s what the book’s for). If you’re a fan of the sonnets and looking for some in depth discussion about, quite literally, every last character Shakespeare wrote, this might be the book for you. I think I might debate the web page where it says that this is a book for everyone, including those who are getting their first time exposure to the sonnets. It’s hard enough to read Shakespeare without every word being spelled wrong!