Posts tagged ‘Comedy’
Funny!
The funniest thing i’ve seen today. Comedian Stevie Riks impersonating Sir Paul McCartney.
Actions speak louder than words so just press play…
Sugar and Spice and All Things….
(image courtesy of IMP awards)
I have a confession… I’m starting to developing a habit, and her name is Meryl Streep. And now, having notched up a 15th Academy Award nomination for her lastest endeavour; surely, it’s not hard to see why?
In her new movie Doubt, Streep plays Sister Aloysius – a nun who suspects the priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of wrongdoing in the catholic school. With no hard evidence, only her certainty, Sister Aloysius sets out on a one-woman crusade to bring the Father to justice – at any cost!
Doubt is a great film; however, it’s very character driven. The theme of child molestation occasionally gets lost, in what seems to me, to be a movie about the actors.
Streep is sinfully good as Sister Aloysius and definitely delivers the stand out performance. However, a deserved winner of the Oscar for best supporting actress would be Viola Davis or Amy Adams, who plays the younger, more naïve nun, Sister James. The pairing of the nuns is fantastic. Adams plays innocent so well, whilst we all know Streep is no stranger to the more devilish role! As a result of their characters’ opposing dispositions, the film also delivers a few laughs.
Father Flynn: “Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty” – and Doubt certainly is sustaining, with powerful performances from the cast.
Forgive me, Father, for slipping back to adolescence, but I haven’t had this much fun watching nuns since the film Sister Act!!
All The World’s A Stage….
Having written a review last week of the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and being that it’s a new year, I thought it would be quite fitting to post a piece on the seven-ages of man, as described by Shakespeare in his play As you like it.
The monologue begins: ‘All the world’s a stage’, and goes on to compare the world to a stage and life to a play, and outlines the seven stages of a man’s life:
Infancy – He is dependent on others and constantly needs attention.
Childhood – He goes to school.
The lover – Modern day adolesance.
The soldier – Modern day young adult.
The Justice – Modern day adult.
Old age – He begins to lose he mental and physical abilities.
Dementia and death – He is once again dependent on others and constantly needs attention.
“…Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
OR, as i’m sure you will like it, in limerick form by the historian Robert Conquest:
Seven ages: first puking and mewling,
Then very pissed off with your schooling,
Then fucks and then fights,
Then judging chaps’ rights,
Then sitting in slippers, then drooling.
I guess you could call it the circle of life. No matter what way we go – whether we age naturally or in reverse – we all end up in the same state!
And so, in the words of a drunken friend: ‘Embellish World’ (while you can!) 
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