Anyone know if there’s a place we can stream Waiting for Godot with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, or if there are DVDs of their performance we can purchase?
A really interesting Patrick Stewart interview about his life, his childhood and his career as an actor:
https://mrfeelgood.com/articles/who-is-sir-patrick-stewart
It actually wasn’t that much about Star Trek, but then there was this quote:
“I blame Ian McKellen for turning me into a child again. Actually, there have been a number of actors in my life who have probed the mischievous child in me. Ben Kingsley did it to a great degree, and we got into trouble at the Royal Shakespeare Company for doing that kind of thing on stage. There was once an official protest by all the other actors in the company, that they had to control what we were doing because it was disruptive. And my friendship with Ian has, in many respects, brought back the better aspects of my childhood. But I’m trying to learn to be a grown up. And in the last six months I’ve been choosing my serious Picard, as I play Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek. I have seriously been trying to commit myself to how to be a leading actor, because I never ever thought of myself as such.”
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Many students believe that if you get stuck, you should stop. Go back, read the offending passage again; repeat until light dawns-either in your mind or outside the library window.
This is almost always fatal. I always tell my students that the first thing to do is read on. Remember that you encountered a difficulty, don't try to pretend that all is sweetness and light, but continue. Often the next sentence, or the next paragraph, will resolve your problem.
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To sum up: If you think you are stuck, begin by plowing ahead regardless, in the hope of gaining enlightenment, but remember where you got stuck, in case this doesn't work. If it doesn't, return to the sticking point and backtrack until you reach something you are confident you understand. Then try moving ahead again.
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As a student I took this method to extremes. My usual method for reading a mathematics text was to thumb through it until I spotted something interesting, then work backward until I had tracked down everything I needed to read the interesting bit. I don't really recommend this to everyone, but it does show that there are alternatives to starting at page 1 and continuing in sequence until you get to page 250.
Let me urge upon you another useful trick. It may sound like a huge amount of extra work, but I assure you it will pay dividends. Read around your subject.
Do not read only the assigned text. Books are expensive, but universities have libraries. Find some books on the same topic or similar topics. Read them, but in a fairly casual way. Skip anything that looks too hard or too boring. Concentrate on whatever catches your attention. It's amazing how often you will read something that turns out to be helpful next week, or next year.
When I say "read around your subject," I don't mean just the technical material. Read Eric Temple Bell's Men of Mathematics, still a cracking read even if some of the stories are invented and women are almost invisible. Sample the great works of the past; James Newman's The World of Mathematics is a four-volume set of fascinating writings about math from ancient Egypt through to relativity.
The main reason for this is to preserve some kind of universe sovereignty.
What I mean is: I don't think it's fair to creators to just take the fan-favorite versions of characters and mesh them all into one universe. I would personally rather see a new MCU Magneto be set up and revealed.
I also believe that little hints at the multiverse would be fun, such as seeing a flash of Michael Fassbender in a multiverse-based vision Wanda has. To do the multiverse right, the best course of action would be, in my opinion, to just create new and alternate versions that don't exist in other franchises.
There are, of course, exceptions. I believe the Arrowverse handled its Multiverse very well (even if the crossover event as a whole was lackluster). But to put Kevin Feige at the head of managing multiple universes he did not create, even with bringing in Maguire's Spider-Man, Fassbender's Magneto, Evan's Human Torch, etc, would be something Marvel shouldn't do and I don't believe they will do.
While it would be AWESOME to see Ian McKellen show up initially, it would soon open up WAY too many questions that Marvel would have an extremely difficult time explaining to casual moviegoers.
That is all.
And did Ian play on any other songs besides Boogie with Stu?
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