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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 12, 2007 18:28:46 GMT -4
I bet it's every fangirl's dream role for him too.
Imagine him screaming, "Off, off, you lendings!", tearing off his clothes. ;D
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Post by henryrocks on Jun 12, 2007 18:40:01 GMT -4
His dream role is King Lear. And Prospero. I hate it when he talks about the roles he's going to do "in his old age." He's not THAT old! ;D Or at the least certainly doesn't look it. |
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 12, 2007 18:44:53 GMT -4
My John Wood's played both Lear and Prospero! But then, he is old - nearing eighty now. And he does look it, too. Yes, I realise this is très rude of me to be spreading JW love on an ME fanboard, but, erm, does anyone want to see my desktop wallpaper of John Wood as Prospero?  i3.tinypic.com/2h64mjp.jpg |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Jun 12, 2007 20:39:56 GMT -4
My John Wood's played both Lear and Prospero! But then, he is old - nearing eighty now. And he does look it, too. Yes, I realise this is très rude of me to be spreading JW love on an ME fanboard, but, erm, does anyone want to see my desktop wallpaper of John Wood as Prospero? i3.tinypic.com/2h64mjp.jpgI'm not so sure that it is rude. We have expressed loving Patchy, Richard, Danny Pickett and their respective actors. Love is love. Just as long as ME is still in your heart as well. |
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 12, 2007 21:57:53 GMT -4
Love is love. Just as long as ME is still in your heart as well. He is, don't you know, he is, and shall always be. |
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Post by henryrocks on Jun 13, 2007 2:04:42 GMT -4
Will this be your first time overseas, or in a diff. country?
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 13, 2007 2:12:19 GMT -4
No, actually, I've travelled a lot over the course of my life.
Countries I've been to include: Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Korea, Australia, Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Post by henryrocks on Jun 13, 2007 2:26:19 GMT -4
Wow. You're lucky. Which was your favorite? Is there somewhere you still really want to go?
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 13, 2007 2:34:48 GMT -4
I can't decide on a favourite, actually. Everywhere I go is simply wonderful.
Ironically, for all my pretensions, I've never once set foot in England, where my heart belongs.
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Post by henryrocks on Jun 13, 2007 2:45:55 GMT -4
Ironically, for all my pretensions, I've never once set foot in England, where my heart belongs. No kidding. I feel the same way. Wrote an essay about it once for a study abroad scholarship; was rather proud of it at the time. |
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 13, 2007 2:48:40 GMT -4
Just curious, but... did you get the scholarship?
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Post by henryrocks on Jun 13, 2007 3:16:27 GMT -4
 It was insane. They had to reset the deadline because of the number of entries coming in. I don't even think I was writing about what they were looking for. I was just being all artistic and writerly about how I love the accent/phrases and literature and theatre, and since I'm so imaginative and always have been, can't you imagine how cool it would be to blah blah blah theatre, poetically describing various important literary sites, blah blah. First place winner? "Araya Kibkabé wrote about her plans to travel to Ethiopia and Egypt to study how climatology and Egyptian dominance of the Nile River shapes political, humanitarian, and agricultural instability in the area." I'm going to study abroad there one way or the other.  I've only been to Guatemala. There, I saw the most beautiful thing, really, that I have ever looked at. Lake Atitlan, from a dock looking towards one of the mountains. I literally thought to myself that it was like being inside a video game. That water did not look real - it was that beautiful. This kind of purple/blue. It was hypnotizing. I just wanted to stare and stare.  Picked up any languages on your travels? ETA: While ensuring I had the name of the lake right, I read that Aldous Huxley called Atitlan the most beautiful lake in the world. ...Crater Lake was pretty cool, but I'm with Huxley all the way 
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Post by Henry Gale on Jun 13, 2007 3:34:03 GMT -4
All right, all right, I might as well divulge a bit of my life story, then.
Though I was born in Canada, I basically grew up in Brunei, as my dad had a job there. While in Brunei, I had to learn Malay, the national language, and Jawi (Arabic script adapted for Malay - as a result, I can write and decipher some Arabic script, but I don't know the Arabic language at all), and at the school I attended, Chinese was a compulsory subject, so there you have it - picked up two other languages during my time in Brunei. I was taught English as it should have been, with British spellings and whatnot - and yes, I do pronounce the letter 'z' as 'zed'.
Now that I'm back in Canada, I've only begun to learn French.
I've also managed to pick up random words of many other languages over the years - I know several Swedish swear words, random Latin words, 'one, two, three' and greetings in German...
Call me multilingual if you will, but I'm not particularly fluent in anything but English.
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It was insane. They had to reset the deadline because of the number of entries coming in.