Monday 10 June 2002

Segovia Achieves Something He Couldn't in His Lifetime. By Allan Kozinn. [by way of New York Times: Arts] How much? $60? $70? No! about $45 retail. 11:08:29 AM    comment [] Link rot at the New Criterion, but this review is important, so here’s the Google cache of Roger Kimball on The death of socialism. Socialism, drenched in blood, blood, blood. 1:29:22 AM    comment [] I find it deeply saddening that this little weblog is now number one on Google for He was a verray parfit gentil knight. Some poor person writing their doctoral thesis hopes to get some insight into Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale” or “General Prologue” suddenly gets me. I found the link in my Referer log, and following it back, found this gem from the Register: Oh to have been a fly on the wall at the pitch meeting for this movie. Faced with a bunch of execs in suits, director Brian Helgeland says: "OK - so the whole thing is kind of Gladiator meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and it's set in the olden days with genuine medieval Tudorbethan beams and the hero is really just a squire, and he needs to be a very perfect gentle knight to compete in tournaments, OK, so he gets Geoffrey Chaucer to forge his, like, patents of nobility, and then he gets this babe who is also a blacksmith to make his armour and at his first joust, everyone is like totally singing We Will Rock You by Queen." There is a pause before one exec removes a cigar and says: "I think you'll find that is a common misreading of 'verray, parfit gentil Knight'." [by way of Guardian Unlimited Film] er, Guardian. 12:13:12 AM    comment []

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