![]() ![]() I still laugh my butt off whenever I watch it. I laughed till I cried when I first saw that. I just would not have cared.īut the Little Rascals version opened the door for me. I honestly admit, if I would have seen Marlon Brando’s performance of the Marc Antony speech before the Spanky version, Brando might as well be speaking Portuguese. And this video classic from the Little Rascals I posted today to go along with Marc Antony’s famous speech from Julius Caesar was my first introduction to Shakespeare. And how about the scores to Tom and Jerry? A virtual Music 101 course. I was introduced to classical music and even opera through Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Yosemite Sam and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang. In the KCK, our window to the world of UHF was Channel 41, possibly the greatest kid-centric station in the history of broadcasting. Where the weird and risque’ would appear, where we would get our cartoons, the serials, monster and horror movies, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Ultra Man, Johnny Socko and His Flying Robot, Benny Hill, etc. Friends roman countrymen lend me your ears tv#UHF, original cable TV before there was cable TV. You old folks remember the UHF, don’t you? The channels beyond the normal VHF world of channels 1-13. ![]() And no, I am not talking about PBS here, people. ![]() I am of an age and place where (and I think many of you will relate) my exposure to culture and arts was mainly introduced through the magic of television. Bear with me My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.”Ī little high brow culture for the Rest Day Read? Well…not completely. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And, sure, he is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones So let it be with Caesar. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. This email is an advertisement from Barnes & Noble, Inc.-Marc Antony’s speech from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare When You Buy Online, Pick Up in Store (Where Available) SEE ALL >Īll offers are subject to availability and selection may vary. And if you’re feeling intimidated, the SparkNotes "No Fear" version is Shakespeare made easy. Seriously, Shakespeare’s play has it all. Now, over 2,000 years later, we commemorate the occasion by reading Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and watching Mean Girls. Today is the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate and the day that gave a certain Elizabethan playwright a really good idea for a tragedy. Unfortunately for him, his friends had daggers. On this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar died surrounded by friends. I come to buy more books, not to read the books I already have. ![]()
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