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...with the words themselves: eccentric, after all, carries a distinguished Latin pedigree that refers, quite reasonably, to anything that departs from the center; weird, by comparison, has its mongrel origins in the Old English wyrd, meaning fate or destiny; and the larger, darker forces conjured up by the term -- Macbeth's weird sisters and the like -- are given an extra twist with the slangy, bastard suffix -o. Beneath the linguistic roots, however, we feel the difference on our pulses. The eccentric we generally regard as something of a donny, dotty, harmless type, like the British peer who threw over...
...actors had the line, 'Now go to the door and stay there till we call.' How many dramatic critics would point out that it was a direct steal from Shakespeare? But it is. It's straight out of the first scene of the third act of Macbeth. If a new symphony contained that much of a quotation from Beethoven or Wagner, the music critics would jump all over the composer...
...MCKELLEN won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus but is best-known in his native England as one in a four-centuries-long succession of Shakespearean actors that includes Richard Burbage (the first Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello), Sir John Gielgud and Paul Scofield. The players constitute something of a royal house--or at least are knighted pretty often...
...engaging one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, at the Charles Playhouse for the next three weeks, the actor performs soliloquies of some 20 characters, from Macbeth to Sir John Falstaff to Juliet Capulet. With parts from The Tempest, a romance, and several history plays, McKellen covers all the theatrical bases from tragedy to low comedy. He even throws in Sonnet XX, for poetic justice...
...recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare as a Woollcott first - edition?", Parker replied deadpan, "A second edition." Presumably it was the memory of such moments that prompted Woollcott to term her "so odd a combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth...