"Celebrity gossip and Richard III" Topic
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| Muerto | 26 Mar 2015 5:56 p.m. PST |
Reading about the reburial of Richard the Third (which is still rhyming slang around here for something unpleasant), I saw far more column inches about Benedict Bloody Cumberbatch – the man most recently famous for putting adolescent, overcompensating dialogue into Smaug's mouth – than the man himself. Does your culture really stare with uncomprehending, bovine, dull eyes at anything not saturated in vapid celebrity gossip? Can we expect Battle of Waterloo bicentenial celebrations to be used as the launch of the new single by Sam Smith or Ellie Goulding or, worse, Kylie? (You adopted her, she's yours.) |
| zoneofcontrol | 26 Mar 2015 7:43 p.m. PST |
Actually, the Waterloo anniversary will be used to relaunch ABBA's career featuring their song borrowing the Waterloo name. If that doen't work, they will be replaced by 1D now that they are a foursome. |
| Pictors Studio | 26 Mar 2015 8:24 p.m. PST |
Actually nobody will know what Waterloo was so it won't be able to launch anything. |
| parrskool | 27 Mar 2015 2:27 a.m. PST |
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| Veteran Cosmic Rocker | 27 Mar 2015 3:14 a.m. PST |
hmm, so I gather that Mr Cumberpatch is a descendant of Rich 3 – I guess there is that link which got him the invite to the gig |
| ubercommando | 27 Mar 2015 4:31 a.m. PST |
Cumberbatch just spoke the dialogue, he didn't write it. Do you really trust journalists to do history right? These are the people who habitually say "in layman's terms", "in 30 seconds or less" or "in a soundbite" whenever they're interviewing a historian. News editors think that if there isn't a celebrity connection to the story, the public won't "get it". I'm more concerned that people, especially children, are getting most of their history from the Horrible History series. I can't stand them; a bunch of revisionist, out of context, sneering, "right on" anti-intellectual pap in my opinion. |
| Zargon | 27 Mar 2015 5:58 a.m. PST |
Th True King reside but temporary in that foul venue of Leicester. |
Dave Jackson  | 27 Mar 2015 6:48 a.m. PST |
I'll get you Brendadirk Cramplescrunch…. |
| axabrax | 27 Mar 2015 9:09 a.m. PST |
You neglect to mention that he's a distant relation of Richard's and that he read a poem that was written by Britain's poet Laureate, which I don't think is trashy at all. What the media chooses to focus on is the trashy part. |
| David Manley | 28 Mar 2015 12:03 a.m. PST |
Could be worse. Could be vapid gossip about the Kardashians, or why Russell Crowd isn't allowed to become Australian, or a hundred other bovine distractions depending on your country of residence |
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builds a pond for his campaign.