Lexicon: "He's going to drive that poor girl crazy!"

The year: 1991

The setting: Pasadena's Hastings Ranch theaters

The film: Hamlet, directed by Zeffirelli, starring Gibson, Close, Bates, Scofield, Holm, Bonham Carter, etc.

So, we get to the nunnery scene. Ophelia's nearly in tears.

One grey-haired Pasadena matron turns to her companion, and says, just above a stage whisper:

"He's going to drive that poor girl crazy!"

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Never seen this story before, have you, ma'am?

Lexicon: "Oh, the felinity!"

Derived from the radio announcer of the Hindenburg fire: "Oh, the humanity!"

Used to commiserate with our cat Tinka as she tries to get more tuna.

The Remains of the Day

Having watched this via Netflix streaming recently, I've been looking at a few reviews here and there.

A great quote by fanboy Roger Ebert:

"There are emotional upheavals in it, but they take place in shadows and corners, in secret. It tells a very sad story - three stories, really. Not long ago I praised a somewhat similar film, Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence," also about characters who place duty and position above the needs of the heart. I got some letters from readers who complained the movie was boring, that "nothing happens in it." To which I was tempted to reply: If you had understood what happened in it, it would not have been boring."

Which only reminds me of Clifton Fadiman's observation:

"When you re-read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."