Blogs about: Sir Thomas More
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When you're in, you're everywhere
So when the BBC runs a news piece about the death of the book/coming of the Kindle – how does it chose to make its point? Why, by waving copies of Wolf Hall throughout the interviews, of course,… more →
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Disagreeing with King Henry VIII
wrote 1 week ago: Do you remember A Man for All Seasons, the play by Robert Bolt about the life of Sir Tho … more →
1966 • A Man for All Seasons
wrote 1 month ago: Especially summer and fall... Sunday night, Lauren and I settled in to watch the 1966 Best Picture w … more →
Humanism
wrote 1 month ago: “Another aspect of the renaissance was its humanism, meaning an interest in or focus on human … more →
When you're in, you're everywhere
wrote 2 months ago: So when the BBC runs a news piece about the death of the book/coming of the Kindle – how does … more →
Mantel Wins Man Booker
wrote 2 months ago: Suitably regally attired, Mantel wins Gold After a disgracefully long absence, I can now reveal that … more →
Bad-urday Oct 10 edition
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wrote 2 months ago: Today’s bad boy is the gorgeous Jeremy Northam - He played An Ideal Husband where he was a me … more →
What do readers think?
wrote 3 months ago: He may not attend - so this is what he looks like While we wait for The Word from Naughtie and Co, I … more →
A Man for All Seasons
wrote 3 months ago: HENRY VIII: And that’s irksome, Thomas, for we artists, though we love praise, yet we love truth bet … more →
A BudLitfest coup
wrote 3 months ago: welcome to the First Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival When the determined folk of Budleigh Salte … more →
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
wrote 4 months ago: It’s at this point that I have to come clean and confess that, not only was this the only book from … more →
...And you think our Gedolim our bad
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wrote 4 months ago: You can hardly hit up the Jblogsphere without running into 10,000 complaints about the “Gedoli … more →
Holbein's More
wrote 5 months ago: You run across a lot of people who are completely dismissive of anything from the past. They feel t … more →
Screenwriting Quote of the Day #91 (Lawrence Turman)
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wrote 7 months ago: “I like strong narrative drive, even though some of my very favorite films are more internal and mea … more →
Q #108: What are some of the best examples of “speaking to power”?
wrote 7 months ago: In this series, Bob Morris poses a key question and then responds to it with material from one or mo … more →
Why H.R.6123 is bad
wrote 7 months ago: From My own site I totally agree that the family of the child who killed herself need some sort of c … more →
On Reading Bridges
wrote 9 months ago: On the wrong side of a debate with Henry VIII regarding the authority of the Pope, Sir Thomas More, … more →
An exhibit with only 5 pictures at the Frick Collection
wrote 9 months ago: What museum would have the audacity to promote a special “exhibition” consisting of just … more →
Assignment #2
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wrote 9 months ago: Over the months of February and March I read the novel, “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More. Whi … more →
A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
wrote 1 year ago: In 16th-century England, the corrupt King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) betrays the Roman Catholic Church … more →
