Month: October 2010

Hooray for Horror

—Fortune Theatre, London (near Covent Garden) I recently saw the current play at the Fortune Theatre, The Woman in Black, now starring Michael Mears and Orlando Wells. The play has been showing at the theatre since 1989. It’s a ghost story and Michael Mears plays several different characters, while Orlando Wells stars as The Actor.…

Interview: Jason Salkey, Chosen Man Rifleman Harris from the Sharpe Series

Jason Salkey is best known for his role in the British TV series about Napoleonic War soldier Richard Sharpe as Rifleman Harris, one of Sharpe’s (played by Sean Bean) “Chosen Men”. An outstanding description of the role and a biography of Mr. Salkey can be found at HERE. If you have read the books that…

Trafalgar Day

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Night Baseball

—Night Baseball, Marjorie Phillips, 1951 or 1952, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. This painting is another one of my favorites. Marjorie Acker Phillips, wife of Duncan Phillips, founder of the The Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., painted this picture of Joe DiMaggio at bat during a…