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I'm not a big fan of Godot. It's be better if they did something like King Lear, playing say Lear and Kent.
1 posted on 04/01/2009 3:06:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I was just thinking “What a waste of good actors!” when I saw the headline.

Patrick Stewart has done “King Lear” for TV. I’ve been meaning to look for it at the library.


2 posted on 04/01/2009 3:08:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." ~Sam Brown)
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"...how they bonded in a Hollywood trailer..."

Considering that McKellen is a galactic-class 'mo, I'm not sure we want to know the details.
3 posted on 04/01/2009 3:08:52 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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4 posted on 04/01/2009 3:11:19 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, 'waiting for Godot'

5 posted on 04/01/2009 3:12:18 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Nah, their best work together was as gay ex-lovers Magneto and Professor Xavier in the X-Men movies.

I googled “Waiting for Godot,” I’d rather have nails pounded into my hands and feet than sit through it.


6 posted on 04/01/2009 3:13:12 PM PDT by sinanju
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Stewart did a western version of King Lear, called King of Texas based on the famous King Ranch on the Mexican Border, that was truly awful. and Moby Dick with Stewart as Ahab was OK, but I liked Peck's Ahab better....

I do like Stewards stuff in general. He did a great Sejanus in I Claudius. I liked his Capt. Picard.

I hate Godot.

McKellan is a bone smuggler....I hear Steward is not.

8 posted on 04/01/2009 3:18:12 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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McKellen once asked Stewart if he could see his Picard....

...it was an uncomfortable gay moment


10 posted on 04/01/2009 3:59:42 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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Stewart is 68

I feel old suddenly.

13 posted on 04/01/2009 4:55:58 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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Who says gays are more fashion-savvy?

Looks like McKellen shaved for the part.

14 posted on 04/01/2009 5:01:25 PM PDT by x
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