[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Marge and I watched this British procuction of the G.B. Shaw play over the weekend and we both enjoyed it. I liked it more than ‘My Fair Lady.’ But then I am not a big fan of sixties musicals. It is refreshing to hear, “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain, or, “I’ve grown accustomed to her face,” without the actors breaking into song. I didn’t verify this but this may be Leslie Howard’s last role before he became Ashley Wilkes.

[Political Junkie Too]

It wasn't until a recent viewing of My Fair Lady that I realized that the movie Trading Places was also Pygmalion.

It was the scene in MFL where Col. Pickering bets Prof. Higgins that he could convert Eliza Doolittle into a Lady that reminded me of the scene where the Duke brothers reveal their $1 bet that they could turn petty thief Billy Ray Valentine into a Wall Street business man.

Of course, the stories diverge at some point, but the early similarity in plot stood out when I made the "bet" connection.

-PJ

[AppyPappy]

We have old copies of the New Yorker that we can check out at the library. It’s interesting to read about this time of our history in real time.

[CougarGA7]

Here's tonight's offering from Campbell Playhouse Rebecca.

This is the last one till "A Christmas Carol" which will be presented on the 23rd. (I'm looking forward to that one.)