tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12891742.post115100806917147334..comments2023-10-07T20:28:03.744+09:00Comments on I Got 2 Shoes: WaffleJellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17527405263030519383noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12891742.post-1151239867696943232006-06-25T21:51:00.000+09:002006-06-25T21:51:00.000+09:00Did I really write "John Done"?Sheesh.KevinDid I really write "John Done"?<BR/><BR/>Sheesh.<BR/><BR/><BR/>KevinKevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12891742.post-1151227668030527092006-06-25T18:27:00.000+09:002006-06-25T18:27:00.000+09:00Hey Kevin,Actually, I just watched that HBO versio...Hey Kevin,<BR/>Actually, I just watched that <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243664/" REL="nofollow">HBO version</A> a few weeks ago, on TV here! I'd seen it before, and Emma Thompson does a wonderful job in it. I hope you get a chance to watch it.<BR/>I think "Terms of Endearment" is one of the all-time best terminal illness movies, and always worth a good bawl. I wish it was on right now, as a matter of fact!<BR/>(Don't know if "Who's the Boss" played in Canada? - ha!) Yo, Angela!!Jellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17527405263030519383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12891742.post-1151172851006675972006-06-25T03:14:00.000+09:002006-06-25T03:14:00.000+09:00I think the Kid With Cancer movie is "Annyeong Hye...I think the Kid With Cancer movie is "Annyeong Hyeong," or "Hyeong Annyeong" or something like that. It translates, "Bye, Big Brother!" which is almost enough to choke me up right there. I'm pretty emotional about my own brothers, whom I love deeply. Can't bring myself to watch that film.<BR/><BR/>Films and plays about terminal illness are depressing enough as it is, wouldn't you say? If you really want to read or watch something incredible, find a play called "W;t" (pronounced "Wit"), by Georgetown University grad (yay! Go, Hoyas!) Margaret Edson, who got the Pulitzer for her effort.<BR/><BR/>"W;t" is about a strong-willed, 50-something English professor who specializes in the poetry of John Done. She has Stage 4 ovarian cancer, and the play is basically her ruminations until she dies. I saw the production at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, with TV star Judith Light in the lead role. <BR/><BR/>Do you know Judith Light? She was the star of that sitcom "Who's the Boss?" along with Tony Danza. Don't know whether that ever played in Canada. She's a great stage actress, as it turns out, and my brother David and I had second-row seats, so we were right there in the action. I was blubbering like a-- well, like a <I>woman</I>-- by the end of the play.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I read the play before I saw it performed, and the script is powerful all by itself. It's also a difficult script from an acting point of view: the play is carried almost entirely by one person for two hours-- and it's almost ALL dialogue. There are other characters, but they're peripheral: Edson wants us to see what it's like for a powerful personality to reckon with her own mortality.<BR/><BR/>I understand that an HBO production of the play was filmed some years back, with the always-amazing Emma Thompson in the lead role. I've yet to get my hands on that version of the play, but hope to. Someday.<BR/><BR/>Anyway... such plays and films can be cathartic, and I expect you're in need of a little catharsis, what with all this life-changing stuff happening. So <I>bawl away,</I> muchacha!<BR/><BR/><BR/>KevinKevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com