Harold Pinter
The playwright Harold Pinter has died, age 78. I wrote my university dissertation about his work. Somebody had once asked him what his plays were about, and he said "The weasel under the cocktail cabinet".
Loads of people then wrote learned articles trying to work out what this meant, even after he'd said that he just said the phrase and didn't expect it to be taken seriously.
He wrote some great plays and is often thought of as rather serious, but he wrote some extremely funny sketches too, and some superb film scripts.
RIP Harold Pinter
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Loads of people then wrote learned articles trying to work out what this meant, even after he'd said that he just said the phrase and didn't expect it to be taken seriously.
He wrote some great plays and is often thought of as rather serious, but he wrote some extremely funny sketches too, and some superb film scripts.
RIP Harold Pinter
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posted by Daphne at 3:27 pm
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"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort - all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation." - Harold Pinter speaking in acceptance of his Nobel prize in 2005.
Ah, I see now where Pudding's softer side comes from....One would think one would just say, "Thank you for the very nice gift; it's what I always wanted." Wouldn't one?
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