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Aug. 27th, 2024 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritI'm a little better, but overtired again tonight, and wanting to make a positive post, so:
1. Whumptober 2024's prompts are out! (For anyone, like me, also signed up to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
lyricaltitles, some of them come with song lyrics attached... could be handy for combining both challenges, heh.)
2. Also courtesy of tumblr, a pic of Jeremy Northam as Berowne in the 1993 RSC "Brideshead" version of Love's Labours Lost:
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Apparently he sang in it, too.
2a. Talking of him singing, I don't actually have another British Newspaper Archive sub currently, but a little while ago, I idly put a Jeremy Northam search in to see if the results would help sort out exactly what he was doing in the theatre early in his career. I did not expect to get a bunch of little preview paragraphs c.1987 where he was apparently in a thing playing the piano while all the local reviewers went, "He looks just like Ivor Novello!" You don't say. XD (The Novello resemblance was probably deliberate, as the garbled previews suggest that the other characters were also made up to look like 30s stars for that particular production of Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard, but still. It was apparently inevitable at some point. Clearly I need to repeat this search whenever I do actually have access, but that was so unexpected, it made me laugh.)
Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed. ♥
1. Whumptober 2024's prompts are out! (For anyone, like me, also signed up to
lyricaltitles, some of them come with song lyrics attached... could be handy for combining both challenges, heh.)2. Also courtesy of tumblr, a pic of Jeremy Northam as Berowne in the 1993 RSC "Brideshead" version of Love's Labours Lost:
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Apparently he sang in it, too.
2a. Talking of him singing, I don't actually have another British Newspaper Archive sub currently, but a little while ago, I idly put a Jeremy Northam search in to see if the results would help sort out exactly what he was doing in the theatre early in his career. I did not expect to get a bunch of little preview paragraphs c.1987 where he was apparently in a thing playing the piano while all the local reviewers went, "He looks just like Ivor Novello!" You don't say. XD (The Novello resemblance was probably deliberate, as the garbled previews suggest that the other characters were also made up to look like 30s stars for that particular production of Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard, but still. It was apparently inevitable at some point. Clearly I need to repeat this search whenever I do actually have access, but that was so unexpected, it made me laugh.)
Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed. ♥
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Date: 2024-08-27 08:11 pm (UTC)It amazes me how people can do those September- November writing things every day. I mean, I signed up for No True Pair & am currently not sure how many to do
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Date: 2024-08-27 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-27 09:07 pm (UTC)I support this plan!
I'm still really amused by the recurrence of Ivor Novello.
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Date: 2024-08-27 09:52 pm (UTC)https://youtu.be/ykcaS7BDKkI?si=oPDSV9hPNYbSc0kj
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Date: 2024-08-28 08:16 am (UTC)No. That was what was funny; I don't have anything suitable to link to as yet, because it's just preview extracts I can see, but I found definite multiple references to him being in a 1930s-set play in rep in the late 80s where he played the piano and all the local papers were saying that he looked remarkably like Ivor Novello! I was understandably amused - I had not expected to find he'd had a trial run for GP c.15 years before. XD
I will snag the articles when I next have access.
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Date: 2024-08-28 08:18 am (UTC)I'm still really amused by the recurrence of Ivor Novello.
I know; I do wish I'd looked when I had access earlier in the year!
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Date: 2024-08-28 01:26 am (UTC)Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed.
You and me both :)
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Date: 2024-08-28 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-28 12:28 pm (UTC)Noice!
For the Jeremy Northam bit, I may have some free pages available on BNA, if you really really need to check it now :D
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Date: 2024-08-28 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-28 01:35 pm (UTC)I hope you got some typing in and the humidity hasn't reached you (pass the headache tablets!).
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Date: 2024-08-28 05:06 pm (UTC)I think there may be laws against looking like that while performing Shakespeare and singing, just for the wellbeing of the rest of us. XD
I hope you got some typing in and the humidity hasn't reached you (pass the headache tablets!).
A bit, and a bit!
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Date: 2024-08-29 02:26 pm (UTC)Yay and slightly boo.
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Date: 2024-08-30 09:00 am (UTC)LOL, wouldn't that then shift to just plain tacky, and the charges'd have to be different? XD
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Date: 2024-08-30 01:17 pm (UTC)