I don’t know what Supergun Cinema is, exactly, but I’m fascinated by these posts that keep popping up in my regular reading.  It appears to be the blog of somebody who is writing a screenplay about people writing a screenplay based on Shakespeare’s works, which is in turn modelled after Shakespeare’s works.  Got that?    Apparently his previous movie was called “Macbeth 3000” so Shakespeare figures prominently in his work.   The image caption in one of the related blog posts says “Macbeth + light sabers + Batman + snow + car chases + Super Dave + an Iraqi chemical weapons plant + a pedophile + Star Trek = comedy gold…”   I’m intrigued.  

This looks interesting.  University of Washington’s “Educational Outreach” program is offering free courses over the net.  Interesting to us, that is, because they have two Shakespeare offerings:  Hamlet and Shakespeare’s Comedies. Haven’t had time to read them in depth yet, but I’ve got them bookmarked.   Something like this I wish came in a PDF, I find that I’m more likely to read things like this if I can print them out all nicely formatted.  I don’t like reading web pages for too long.  

To be, or not to . . . Oh, never mind – Health – Times Online

Did Shakespeare have his bad days when he wrote just to get the wordcount up? Did he wake up hungover, look at a half finished page and think “Where was I?” Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director at the Globe, thinks so. He shows a number of examples (specifically from The Tempest, Macbeth and King Lear) where he feels that the Bard wasn’t quite firing on all cylinders.
It’s an interesting position to take. If you take the position that every word was perfect, then you’re just being silly – Shakespeare was a man just like everybody else. But if you cite specific passages and say “This is awkward” then people will come out of the woodwork to defend that particular passage and tell you that you simply didn’t understand it. At least this opinion is coming from somebody who is in the business of staging Shakespaere, so when he says “There’s no way to deliver a line like that with any passion” he’s got some degree of experience with it.
Does this remind anybody else of Polonius? “The most beautified Ophelia? That’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase…”

Well, this is interesting. Anybody want to see Sonnet 18 done as an animated tribute to actress Scarlett Johansson?

David Hasselhoff Wants To Do Shakespeare – Starpulse News Blog

Title really says it all, don’t it? The only real question is what role he should play? Maybe he and Jessica Simpson can start out with a Troilus and Cressida or something. See if either of them realizes that there’s more to Shakespeare canon than just the biggies.