The way Jason auditions with the monologue that says "I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes/ and but thou love me, let them find me here/ my life were better ended by their hate"
Still not over Bare after 5 fucking years apparently
Happiest of birthdays, sir! You don't have any idea of how much I appreciate your existence and how much I treasure your work (be it on the theatre, tv movies, tv shows, and films). I've talked extensively before of how characters like Neil, Wilson, Housman, Barry Kempler, Danny, and many others have resonated with me; and how your work has changed my life time and time again. In honor of your birthday, I proudly present:
Robert Sean Leonard on the stage
For the full HD version on YouTube: here
If you want to know more about RSL's stage career, @samnyangie has a very good guide here
PS1: I know he probably won't see this taking into consideration that the man doesn't use social media, and it's almost impossible that he would choose to look at the hellsite, but one can dream
PS2: I chose Elvis Costello's music because he said he liked it on an interview
In honor of David Tennant's Olivier nomination for Macbeth...
I feel like giving out something special from my collection in celebration of David Tennant's nomination for Macbeth at today's Olivier Awards:
Here's a photo printed in a local newspaper from Long Day's Journey Into Night, a 1994 production David did at the Dundee Rep!
This was the second time David had starred alongside Edith MacArthur, who famously told David's father Sandy he'd do just that someday (the first time had been in 1992's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, also at the Dundee Rep.)
Here he plays Edmund Tyrone, a consumptive (which you can see from his haggard appearance.)
I wish it was a better quality photo, but ya know....sometimes you have to take what you can get!
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Jason Robards as Jamie Tyrone
Katharine Hepburn as Mary Tyrone
Ralph Richardson as James Tyrone
Dean Stockwell as Edmund Tyrone
directed by Sidney Lumet
cinematography by Boris Kaufman
Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A
(info about nominees under the poll)
NANCY KELLY (1921-1995)
NOMINATIONS:
Lead- 1956 for The Bad Seed
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KATHARINE HEPBURN (1907-2003)
NOMINATIONS:
Lead- 1936 for Alice Adams, 1941 for The Philadelphia Story, 1941 for Woman of the Year, 1952 for The African Queen, 1956 for Summertime, 1957 for The Rainmaker, 1960 for Suddenly, Last Summer, 1963 for Long Day's Journey into Night
WINS:
Lead- 1934 for Morning Glory, 1968 for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1969 for The Lion in Winter, 1982 for On Golden Pond