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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

James Goldman - The Lion in Winter

The lion in winter (A Dell book) - James Goldman
bookshelves: re-read, teh-brillianz, film-only, play-dramatisation, plantagenet-1154-1485, medieval5c-16c, winter-20142015, re-visit-2015, families
Read from January 01, 1996 to February 23, 2015, read count: 4

 

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Laura's found a remake - HUZZAH - just right for a Monday blizzard banking the snow up outside. Nothing will better Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole performances IMHO yet it is always grand to watch other versions of a favourite play. This one is with Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart and PS looked just like a lion with his mane and slightly up-at-the-edges eyes.

This play never palls, I find fresh delight at every pithy one-liner and poisonous barb. Six stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfbV...

"'Hush dear, Mother's fighting'"

"I'm old now, I'm 50 and the oldest man I know - Good God, I've got a decade on the pope."

"Well ...... what family doesn't have it's ups and downs."

"You kill him - I'll watch"

J - "He's (Richard) got a knife!"
E - "He's got a knife, I've got a knife, we've all got knives. Its 1183 for heaven's sake, and we are barbarians."