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...Hotspur: "Why, so can I, or so can any man; "But will they come when you do call for them...
...with dead and crowded its hospitals with wounded. Though the fighting was confined to the capital and to Omdurman across the Nile, the repercussions rippled far beyond the Sudan. The Soviets quickly supported the dissidents and were noticeably distressed by Numeiry's countercoup. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, the hotspur of the Arab world, barged into the internal problems of another nation for the second time in two weeks. He was more effective than he had been in Morocco, however. By forcing down a British jet and kidnaping two rebel leaders, he took much of the spunk...
...Frost on TV that his worst moment as an actor was a long-ago scene as Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV. After some lusty drinking and a prolonged period onstage, Burton wet his chain mail. He then played a duel scene with Sir Michael Redgrave, as Hotspur, and broke his sword. Forced to win the duel without a blade, he hoisted the bulky knight to his shoulder and tossed him across the stage. "Dear boy," said Sir Michael backstage, "I thought you were sweating rather more than usual...
There is no space here to describe more than a few of the iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff...
...Hotspur," reads one note, "said we should have had the battle, but for those cursed stars. Hotspur said he was indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food...