Sunday, September 23, 2018, 9:15 pm — I have a new appreciation of Shakespeare! … excerpt below, Eliot A. Cohen, “How Will This End,” The Atlantic, August 24, 2018 …
“But to really get the feel for the … administration’s end, we must turn to the finest political psychologist of them all, William Shakespeare. The text is in the final act of what superstitious actors only refer to as the “Scottish play.” One of the nobles who has turned on their murderous usurper king describes Macbeth’s predicament:”
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
In a lighter vein, immediately thought of “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”! … Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore, two non-musical mugs … singin’ and hoofin’ for Howard Keel … Kiss Me, Kate, 1953 …
Movies, Of Course! 