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Black Coffee Blues

Henry Rollins

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'If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper...

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

David Korten

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"An epic work. Exposes the myths that divide us and frames the stories that can bring us together."...

IPA Keyboard: International Phonetic Alphabet

Utilities and Education

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A complete International Phonetic Alphabet (including all sounds and diacritics) keyboard which CAN...

ACTUALLY HAPPENED

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ACTUALLY HAPPENED is a digital platform that gives people the chance to have their personal stories...

Shameless USA

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Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy stars as Frank Gallagher, a single father of six who spends...

A Star Is Born (1976)

7.7 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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The fire of Barbra Streisand. The magnetism of Kris Kristofferson. The reckless world of big-time...

David McK (3877 KP) rated Moriarty: The Silent Order in Books

Nov 17, 2024

The second in Charles Kindinger's 'Moriarty' series of Sherlock Holmes re-imaginings, positing what if Sherlock was an imposter and Moriarty an innocent man driven to a life of crime by the former, which - I have to say - I did not find *quite* as enjoyable as the first.

It also took me a wee while to get used to the recasting of the role of Colonel Sebastian Moran - not to say that the actor was bad, by any means, just that he sounded different.

Anyway, this time round, the story starts in the United States, following both Moriarty and Sherlocks death at the Reichenbach Falls, before - in the latter half - moving back to Merrie Olde Englande - with a new nemesis in the form of Helen Mirren's blackmailer Lady Milverton.

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David McK (3877 KP) rated Shakespeare in Love (1998) in Movies

Oct 19, 2025

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

1998 | Comedy, History, Romance

6.8

(11 Ratings)

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Award-winning 1998 film (supposedly) telling the story of how Shakespeare - here, suffering from writers block - came to write the tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' (which, here, starts life as 'Romeo and Ethel the Pirate King's daughter'), as well as where he gets inspiration for several of his other plays from.

Whilst this is a bit slow starting, it gets better once the plot starts moving, roughly half an hour or so into it, with the introduction of (a very young) Gwyneth Paltrow as Lady Viola who - in the best traditions of Shakespeare - wants to become an actor herself, a role forbidden to females of the time, and so is forced to 'go undercover', pretending to be a young man.

Sound familiar?

It's a plot device Shakespeare would return to, time and time again.