My BritBud Jaine asked me that after snapping this photo of a poet’s bust in her local park. She’s evidently suggesting that this is the impression that I leave with others? (Those English lasses are wisenheimers, I tell ya.)
Anyway, the poet in question is Honorat de Bueil de Racan. (Don’t ask me to pronounce that.) The bust is located at the Jardin des Prebendes park in France. (My buddy lives near there now.)
There is much to admire about Mike Nichols’ 1966 adaptation of Edward Albee’s 1962 play — but nothing stands out like Elizabeth Taylor’s performance. That woman’s skill as an actress was stunning. She was indistinguishable from the doomed character she portrayed, opposite her then-husband, Richard Burton, in a tragedy about a baroquely twisted marriage. I would easily place her on par with the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins or Sissy Spacek.
When I was a kid in the 1980’s, I thought of “Liz” Taylor as some “old” actress from my parents’ time. (And she frequently seemed like some sort of joke to adults on television who traded in celebrity gossip.) But now I understand that she had genius-level talent. Damn.
Postscript — the 1967 poster below was obviously produced in France.
Postscript 2 — I am linking below to Fábio Camargo Corrêa’s Youtube channel.
In Saint-Martin Church in Arc-en-Barrois (Haute-Marne, France).
Paramount Pictures.
DC Comics. I noticed here that the words “The Master Race” were eliminated from the title for the French edition.
“Christmas Eve Wonders.” Engraving. Donated in 1844 with the work Le Foyer Breton by Emile Souvestre to the Brittany Museum, Rennes, France.
Vimy, France. Memorial designed by Walter Seymour Allward, circa 1936.
Photo credit: By Cbone (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: By Ecelan (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
There’s a terrific set of links and resources over at Mashable.com, and it’s updated continuously:
http://mashable.com/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-how-to-help/#HcMKlkEchkqT
For a little perspective, we Americans should remember the support and friendship the French people showed us after September 11, 2001.
L’Amérique se tient avec la France.
Someone named Eric McConnell posted this in a comment on Trace Beaulieu’s Facebook wall. I thought it was a particularly nice idea.
Greg Camp said in the comments for this Youtube video, “Tonight, all good people sing this song.”
