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“…well, I wouldn’t worry about the virtue part of it, if I were you.  But you recited it well, lad.  Who wrote it?”  Oh Baudelaire, you decadent, saucy dandy you.  I’m an immense fan of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, in which frail young Edmund quotes these lines to his father, the miserly James Tyrone, Sr., who responds as above.  While I greatly admire Dean Stockwell’s performance as Edmund in the 1962 film and the poetic sentiments of the young consumptive, I do have to say Tyrone’s predilection for Shakespeare is closer to my own.  Ralph Richardson, who played Alexei to Vivian Leigh’s Anna in Anna Karenina, gives a masterful performance as the paterfamilias.  But by far the best thing about the movie is Katherine Hepburn’s portrayal as mom the dope fiend.   Awesomeness.

“…well, I wouldn’t worry about the virtue part of it, if I were you.  But you recited it well, lad.  Who wrote it?” 

Oh Baudelaire, you decadent, saucy dandy you.  I’m an immense fan of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, in which frail young Edmund quotes these lines to his father, the miserly James Tyrone, Sr., who responds as above. 

While I greatly admire Dean Stockwell’s performance as Edmund in the 1962 film and the poetic sentiments of the young consumptive, I do have to say Tyrone’s predilection for Shakespeare is closer to my own.  Ralph Richardson, who played Alexei to Vivian Leigh’s Anna in Anna Karenina, gives a masterful performance as the paterfamilias.  But by far the best thing about the movie is Katherine Hepburn’s portrayal as mom the dope fiend.   Awesomeness.

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Posted on February 22nd, 2012
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