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Last night's Shakespeare movie was Romeo and Juliet, the 1968 version by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Michael York, and others. The first two were the leads, cast as teenager unknowns at the time, which works well as Romeo and Juliet are meant to be teenagers. In my book it's close to a perfect adaptation of the play, which has certianly been adapted often enough. I suppose not every actor has a good grasp of the language (Romeo for example) but I think those are minor quibbles, because on the whole the movie succeeds admirably. Many consider this the best film version of this play, if not one of the best film version of any Shakespeare play. And the theme is of course beautiful and haunting.

If It Isn't One Thing It's Another...

I got home tonight and went to check my mail box. I didn't need my key because the door of my mail box had been ripped off and was completely missing. There was some junk mail inside, but I have no idea what might have been stolen. I do have two or three dvds that I've been waiting for, Titus Andronicus and Twelfth Night and maybe one other that I've forgotten, it's possible one or more of them were taken, or a magazine, or bills I suppose.

Like I have time to deal with crap like this. I have to get up extra early tomorrow so that I can get in my 1 hour walk and still make it to the doctor's office before I go to work.