Sherry Chandler

The NYTimes (or at least Virginia Hefferman) loves Kevin Kline and so do I:

Mr. Kline delivers Jaques’s beloved “All the world’s a stage” soliloquy to images of nature and the sound of chirping birds. (A lion later intrudes in a scene between Orlando and Oliver; nature is fully incorporated into stagecraft here.) This is odd, and it misuses Mr. Kline, who seems unable ever to hit a false note. As a thoroughgoing depressive here, he brings some clairvoyance to melancholy, which suits him.

Mr. Kline has, without fanfare, become a kind of elder statesman of American acting, with no taint on him. His face is so kindly and his voice so unforced that viewers can’t help wanting the satisfaction of seeing him cover the big hits; it’s not fair to deny us his face during this speech.

Kenneth Branagh, however, does not love Rosalind and so has cut Ron Howard’s daugher’s part in his production that airs tonight on HBO.

“She does go on a bit,” Mr. Branagh said, blandly explaining his resizing of the part to a reporter for The Los Angeles Times.

Alas! I have no cable. Not that I often regret this. And I don’t seem to be alone. According to Harry Shearer, about 20% of the country still grabs its television programming from the air waves.

Still I’d like to see this production if only to see Kevin Kline do Jacques. It also has Brian Blessed, whom I have loved since his days playing Augustus in I, Claudius.

Maybe it will be offered by Netflix later on.

I See Invisible People has tapped me with the Four Things meme and I’ll give it a try.

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

field hand
accounts receivable bookkeeper (with my math skills and not spreadsheet software!)
Consumer Affairs Specialist
Senior Staff Associate (figure out what that is!)

Four places I’ve lived

Well, I counted on my fingers and discovered that I’ve only ever lived 4 places in my whole life:

Owen County, Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Chicago, Illinois
Paris, Kentucky

Kentuckians move less than those in any other state and are more likely to come home if they move away. Is that good or bad? Yes.

Four places I’d rather be right now:

Paris, France
hiking in the Smokies
reading on some deserted beach
Vancouver

Four of my favorite foods

apples (for many years but not so much now because it’s hard to get good ones)
buttermilk cornbread
Brown Cow whole milk yogurt
cheese

(though I also like Terry’s chicken gizzards — takes young teeth — and Tish’s spinach)

Four people I tag:

Helen (who’s changed her look again — lovely)
Shamash
Darlene
Rebecca