the Dalaverse

While I was at the gym, I was thoroughly delighted to find "The Lion in Winter" on AMC (so delighted that I had to cut my workout short because I kept grinning like a maniac). God, I love this movie. I was sitting there trying to think up a quote for a subject line when I came back and squeed over it, and I might as well cut and paste the entire screenplay because there's a great line roughly every thirty seconds. It's so awesome. And until the end, nothing happens -- they just sit around and snark and fight and scheme and be awesome. I love it. Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn just fucking tear up the screen like nobody else.

Seriously -- IMDB quotes page. That's all I got.

I really, really need to start reading English history again. This is what I've always loved about history: for much of it, for the most important and most dramatic and most interesting bits? You couldn't make that shit up.

BTW, AMC is running a 24/7 Oscar nominees marathon, so there's nothing but great movies for a week. I'm excited. I think I might tape ol' "Cleopatra" today.