Theatre

Oh that’s a shame, I’ve always loved Steve Coogan. Goodbye, dear Saxondale. Oh fuck it, who am I kidding, I will be watching him as Stan Laurel until my end.

I’ve just seen a play at the Brighton Fringe ⁠— no that’s overstating matters, let’s call it a performance, barely ⁠— entitled Shitfaced Shakespeare. It makes me feel way worse about theater than doth Spanish novelist Javier Marías, who writes (2017):

There must be some happy medium between lazy, outmoded productions à la Pérez Puig (who seems to have been in charge of the Teatro Español in Madrid for decades now) and the jokey superficialities of the professional innovators.

Fun fun fun, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jim Carrey, Don Cheadle, Henry Winkler & Timothy Simons talk shop.

Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson’s bullshit and everyone else’s too. Oh and famous friends.

“Even The Beatles have sort of faded for this generation, but Billy hasn’t. Billy’s still cranking,” observes cover band leader Mike DelGuidice. Billy Joel is outearning the likes of U2 and Adele.

A romp through the current state of thespian-American affairs with fear and loathing of the English invasion, particular emphasis on Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a conclusory celebration of Jake Gyllenhaal.

Cary Grant’s 1963 op-ed in This Week magazine on dressing well.

Alec Baldwin’s calm, grown-up, entertaining talk show, Here’s the Thing.

Aluf Benn interviews David Mamet.

John Malkovich on Charlie Rose.

John Malkovich: The world is in fact, well, if you’re anywhere near as lucky as I have been, but even if you’re just moderately lucky, the world is in fact an exquisitely beautiful, endlessly fascinating place filled often with spectacular people.

Charlie Rose: That’s exactly the way I feel.

JM: You know…

CR: Exactly!

Harry Knowles lovin’ on the perfect _Captain America: The First Avenger_.

On the problems besetting the revamp of the plaza around Tel Aviv’s Habima Theater.

Interview with Shatner including video. Fine.

The New York Times reviews the latest revival of Waiting for Godot.

Sometimes it just works. Charlie Rose with the Broadway cast of Waiting for Godot: Nathan Lane, John Goodman, Bill Irwin and John Glover .

Michael Caine easy, free, articulate and enthusiastic on Charlie Rose.