Archive for: April, 2015

Uncategorized April 23, 2015

THE IMMORTAL MEMORY

Ten thousand honors and blessings on the bard who has thus gilded the dull realities of life with innocent illusions; who has spread exquisite and unbought pleasures in my chequered path; and beguiled my spirit in many a lonely hour. Washington Irving on Shakespeare  A film in celebration of the Bard’s birthday, in remembrance of …

Uncategorized April 15, 2015

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. The Player, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead  A film to mark the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s death, featuring a poem I wrote in my dressing …

Uncategorized April 8, 2015

ON AND OFF BROADWAY

Give my regards to old Broadway And tell them I’ll be there ere long. George M. Cohan The second in a series of film blogs as My Perfect Mind prepares to head to New York in June. Photo by EP

Uncategorized April 4, 2015

FAMILY TREES

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.  Marcel Proust  A new film linking Richard III, the Moscow Art Theatre and …