Monday, November 10, 2008

"Finally: A Funny Gravedigger!"

L. A. Story. Dir. Mick Jackson. By Steve Martin. Perf. Steve Martin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patrick Stewart, Rick Moranis, and Victoria Tennant. 1991. DVD. Artisan, 1999.
When Poor Yorick was still around, its catalogue mentioned this film. Mistakenly thinking that the sentient, talking traffic sign quoted Shakespeare (it doesn't), I skimmed through it, became disappointed when I found no quotes from Shakespeare on the traffic sign, and took it back to the library. But I finally remembered—it's not the sign; it's Rick Moranis as the gravedigger! That's where the Shakespeare is in the film!  Oh, and it's marvelous.

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Bardfilm is normally written as one word, though it can also be found under a search for "Bard Film Blog." Bardfilm is a Shakespeare blog (admittedly, one of many Shakespeare blogs), and it is dedicated to commentary on films (Shakespeare movies, The Shakespeare Movie, Shakespeare on television, Shakespeare at the cinema), plays, and other matter related to Shakespeare (allusions to Shakespeare in pop culture, quotes from Shakespeare in popular culture, quotations that come from Shakespeare, et cetera).

Unless otherwise indicated, quotations from Shakespeare's works are from the following edition:
Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
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