ARENA : Jonathan Miller

[Nick Armstrong]

en route to the Zoo

Are you a regular visitor to the Zoo, ammy?

[kernelbogey]

Ams - wasn't there something in the film about his being in some way disappointed with his life...? Might explain his 'cheesed-off' look. (He did say something about his regrets re not practising medicine.)

[amateur51]

Are you a regular visitor to the Zoo, ammy?

I wish, Calibs - my favourites are the otters who arrive en masse, form a squirmy lutrine choir and 'sing' to crowds of Japanese tourists

[amateur51]

Ams - wasn't there something in the film about his being in some way disappointed with his life...? Might explain his 'cheesed-off' look. (He did say something about his regrets re not practising medicine.)

I'm niot sure that my interpretation is correct, kernel - as my old dad used to say when people asked him 'what's the matter?' - "it's just the way my face hangs in respose"

[vinteuil]

the otters who arrive en masse, form a squirmy lutrine choir and 'sing'

Ammy - did you alert our former (temporarily suspended until the next proms... ) Board Member and loutrophile to this delight?

[amateur51]

Ammy - did you alert our former (temporarily suspended until the next proms... ) Board Member and loutrophile to this delight?

oooer vints - that possibility had quite escaped me.

It'll be fun to see who's first in rumbling her latest identity

[kernelbogey]

the otters who arrive en masse, form a squirmy lutrine choir and 'sing' to crowds of Japanese tourists

Respighi?

[salymap]

oooer vints - that possibility had quite escaped me.

It'll be fun to see who's first in rumbling her latest identity

I don't think I can cope with any more people on the boards with multiple identities. I see another name from tbe past on a recent thread.

[gamba]

I agree he is talented & knows it & demands that you should too.
Hence the lavish programme cover to a performance of the St. Mathew Passion directed by him in Glasgow, which I still have in my possession & which has the M of Miller at 24mm. in height, completely monopolising the page, whilst J.S Bach, which ( after searching ), gets all of 5mm. The conductor, Paul Goodwin, is obviously of too little importance even to be mentioned on the front cover, an appalling insult.

I always thought type size & the impact it makes must surely relate to the importance of the message it conveys.
( sorry, JSB, your contribution is not regarded as important as that of the Director ).

In fairness, I must mention that the reason for a ' Director ' was that this performance was to be a St. Matthew Passion with 'movement , style & new direction ' which amounted to little more than singers, musicians & some of those in the chorus occasionally shuffling around from time to time - a source of great annoyance to many of us in the audience & especially with music of such greatness.

[Serial_Apologist]

I always thought type size & the impact it makes must surely relate to the importance of the message it conveys.

I am sure you are right.

I have a book by a certain Richard Tames, whose cover announces in bold capitals: "DULWICH AND CAMBERWELL PAST", with, underneath in lower case, "with Peckham"

[handsomefortune]

the main problem with judging who/whatever, as per marketing and typographical tricks is that i suspect neither miller, dulwich or camberwell had anything whatsoever to do with belittling, or ommitting .....

[Serial_Apologist]

the main problem with judging who/whatever, as per marketing and typographical tricks is that i suspect neither miller, dulwich or camberwell had anything whatsoever to do with belittling, or ommitting .....

I somehow think my musical Peckham friend wouldn't agree, handsome - having seen that book cover!