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To: Stoat
He said: "I am not certain it was that interesting an enterprise when it happened the first time around. The BBC were enslaved to their American sponsors and we were unable to do anything adventurous with the plays. They were all very historic."

He sounds like the kind of guy who wants Romeo and Juliet to star two men in a San Fran bathhouse.

6 posted on 11/18/2007 1:05:08 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
He said: "I am not certain it was that interesting an enterprise when it happened the first time around. The BBC were enslaved to their American sponsors and we were unable to do anything adventurous with the plays. They were all very historic."

He sounds like the kind of guy who wants Romeo and Juliet to star two men in a San Fran bathhouse.

Yes, and Lady Macbeth's "Unsexing speech" will be deemed as offensive to womyn as it suggests that a woman can't be as strong as a man.

Considering the multitude of scandals that the BBC has been involved with recently, most involving staffers cheating or being breathtakingly dishonest in one fashion or another, a project such as this is an excellent opportunity for them to do something right for a change and to reclaim their place as a respectable institution, but their recent history suggests that it will be merely a slap in the face of a "dead white male" and a colossal insult to anyone who has ever picked up a book in their lives.  I will undoubtedly end up watching it when it's released, but I don't have terribly high hopes for the content.  I do sincerely hope that I will be proven completely wrong.

8 posted on 11/18/2007 1:19:30 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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