Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 27, 2019, 12:10:49 PM
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A rather wonderful filled life.
https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/jonathan-miller-theatre-director-writer-death-a4297926.html
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And a more in depth obituary on the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21144364
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Pretentious old sod.
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Pretentious old sod.
Said the cantankerous not quite so old sod.
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This:- Erudite and clever, witty and paradoxical, Jonathan Miller was a born performer, a brilliant talker and a first-rate director.
He will be remembered as a man, who even at his grumpiest, couldn't help being entertaining.
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Definitely. I enjoyed seeing him on TV but that was a while back. Do remember 'The Body in Question', 'Mikado', amongst other things.
Glad he reached old age.
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This:- Erudite and clever, witty and paradoxical, Jonathan Miller was a born performer, a brilliant talker and a first-rate director.
He will be remembered as a man, who even at his grumpiest, couldn't help being entertaining.
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Definitely. I enjoyed seeing him on TV but that was a while back. Do remember 'The Body in Question', 'Mikado', amongst other things.
Glad he reached old age.
The Body in Question is brilliant. One of those great documentary series that changes what a documentary does that seemed to happen every few months in the 70s.
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Glad he reached old age.
Unfortunately, he was suffering from Alzheimers
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a first-rate director.
He was a crap director - unsubtle and pretentious. I've heard of (but didn't see, thankfuly) a production of his of Hamlet, in which everyone but H. wore grey, supposedly to suggest that it was all going on in H's head, and which was denounced as pretentious rubbish bythe OU literature lecturer I heard about it from; and talking about his production of 'The Mikado' in an interview, he said, wuite rightly, that it was essentially pantomime. Well, panto is very traditional, and you mess around with it at your peril (Oh, no you don't!), so why did he set it in 1930s England?
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Here's an oddity I hadn't seen before film by Jonathan Miller on Patti Smith
https://youtu.be/u1uOG3bKGNI