Just chanced across Hold the Sunset with Alison Steadman and John Cleese, two of my favourite actors. Brilliant acting and diction, with Peter Egan in a minor role. The script? Alas, BBC1 fare. Available now on iPlayer.
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My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson) -
I don’t think you can entirely blame the script! Cleese (especially) was dismal. -
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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... I have such happy memories of, when young, enjoying Cleese in Python &c - it is a source of sadness that I now find him unwatchable. Possibly I have turned in to Queen Victoria, and nothing amuses me - or (praps more likely) he has turned in to a self-important smug boring old fart.
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Good actors, yes. The script? Banal.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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- My lips are sealed. 
My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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I haven’t watched it, I struggled to get to the end of the trailer.SteveComment
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...who needs a lot of money to pay off various ex-wives, and would like to come by it with as little effort as possible.Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Watched 5 minutes in case a great cast had been given a decent script - they hadn't. Deleted.Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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That, and the fact of its infrequent trailing, told me all I haven't wanted to know about this programme.Originally posted by Stunsworth View PostComment
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Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
- if those were the best bits they could find to get people to watch ... !
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Precisely what I was thinking.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - if those were the best bits they could find to get people to watch ... !Comment
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Excellent cast and atrocious scripts never held back a BBC " comedy" just look at the number of series of My Family they made.Last edited by Barbirollians; 27-02-18, 22:19.Comment
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Currently, I am going against the tide. It seems to me that the various juxtapositions in the script are quite clever. I am seeing it as a stage play in sitcom form. The characterisation and dialogue ring true to me, albeit somewhat uncomfortably. As I have written cynically elsewhere, it is successfully depicting how many now over 60 are nicer and more balanced because financially and often domestically there was greater stability. Simultaneously, it is showing how a lot of us under that age are unbalanced at least partially because society went down the pan and we'd be a constant source of misery to them if they weren't so adept at shrugging their shoulders. I'm digging out my tea cards and the 1970 football coins next.Comment
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