"I want you to hang him! I want you to break his little neck and bury him in quicklime!"
"That's the spirit!"
--Pennies From Heaven
Dreamed of noticing that Time magazine was always writing about India with the cliche "What the hey!"(?)
Performed Rigoletto. (There was a big enthusiastic house.) Moira saw it and liked it. Giuseppe repeated my joke in front of the whole chorus. (Priest: "In your house, do you pray before you eat?" Little boy: "We don't have to. Mom's a good cook!")
Tomorrow's Donald's 50th birthday, so we had him and John's family over for Indian food.
Giuseppe on the chorus we sing after kidnapping Gilda: "You're hoping the Duke will reward you by stealing your wife, so you'll be able to take up with another woman!"
Saw the DVD of the last episodes of Pennies From Heaven. I liked it somewhat better than I expected, but still don't get why some people consider it the greatest TV series ever. It does have a certain sensibility about Britain in the 1930s. Maybe you have to be British to understand Dennis Potter...
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