|| || issue, occur, cajole, active, "saver" it.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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I dunno about this solution.
Well... maybe.
Whaddya think, Sandy?
Is this the worst week ever for Jumble?
~ OMK
If not the very worst, today's is at least a prime contender. Yes, OMK, I wonder if they have an anonymous guest contributor this week who has a lot more ambition than talent.
FLN: Misty ~ I forgot to add to my final post last night that my reason for bringing up the marriage theme at all was to have a little fun with a second embedding of the clue words, this time in prose rather than verse.
~ OMK
"An Easy Save"
Gracie's account hadn't been active for years,
so the manager refused to issue a check.
He wouldn't be cajoled, not even with tears,
nor with the promise of payment to cover the debt.
"You don't understand," said she at last,
"I'm sending off for a gift, and they won't take cash!"
"Hasn't it occurred to you, Miss," he made the suggestion,
"to buy a cashier's check for the amount in question?"
~ OMK
Cedric's usual harangue was about restoring the Saxon throne.
But his cajoling, convincing and even coercing seemed to have been blown
With the death of the last issue of the House of Alfred. It hadn't occured
To Cedric to see his candidate active. But his great hope now demurred.
"I'm a changed man, uncle" said the rejuvenated Athelstane.
"I want to savor life and love it to the full. I bequeath my role to Thane
Wilfred and renounce my betrothal to Rowena. Take her Wilfred
For surely it was thee that the lovely lady preferred in my stead.
WC
I didn't have a big problem with MOO yesterday but today was definitely a stretch.
Cedric , speaking of a stretch, has the gall to utter as his first words upon seeing Athelstane alive "We can't kill Richard, I've pledged safe conduct "
Although his mind is still mainly on food the character development that Sandy likes is very apparent in Athelstane. He's come "alive" spiritually as well as literally. He'll no longer be a pawn to Cedric's schemes of Saxon glory at the expense of many lives lost.
WC
I thought perhaps to apologize for the supreme blandness of my ditty this morning, but on second thought I believe I will dedicate it to the simplicity and obviousness of this week's Jumbles.
Why should the pupil always exceed the Master's example?
Thanks for your installment, Wilbur. Athelstane's "rejuvenation" reminds me of the denouements of many of the TCM motion pictures of the '40s and '50s I've been streaming of late--where the idea was to wrap things up as quickly as possible following a climactic action.
The cynical studio bosses figured their audiences were already on their way out the doors. They'd be watching the knotting of loose ends over their shoulders.
~ OMK
(Here I go again, Ol' Man Keith.)
"Love Story"
My sweetheart brought up an issue
that made me require a tissue.
He was leaving, and said, "I'll miss you,"
and I said "Just let me kiss you."
They had worked hard to cajole
him to go to the Hollywood Bowl,
and try out for a band-new role.
That had always been his goal.
He'd be playing a crafty, low cur,
to whom disaster would occur
when along came a crazy joker
who hit him with a poker.
His performance was very active
but the director found it re-active.
So the role he surrendered, to give
him a chance to go home, and now live
with me. What a wonderful favor!
Soon we married, and now I savor
the love of my life as my saver--
a love that will never waiver.
Wilbur, Athelstane is becoming so admirable. I member vaguely seeing the 1953 film, but there wasn't any Athelstane in it, I think. Maybe that's why he seems so new to me. Obviously I haven't read the book.
Sandy, the 1953 film was about the triangle of Ivanhoe, Rowena and Rebecca with a lot of jousting and swordplay. Again, my thoughts were about a play/musical where character interplay was key.
I thought of gimmicks like a play-by-play of the jousting and swordfight with a Cosell type voice intoning "Down goes Le Boeuf!'. Sir Brian had the classic transformation from embittered mysogynist to unrequited but sincere love of Rebecca.
The big problem is how to handle the "Jewish question" eg Isaac of York whom Scott portrays as stereotypically miserly.
WC
OMK since your going to direct and Owen's going to do a lot of the songs I'm waiting for input.
Btw, we'll never actually see or hear Ivanhoe except his voice when he's in LeBoeuf's castle and Rebecca is giving
a play-by-play of the storming if the castle.
I believe, Misty, this is more complex and real-life-based (the "Hollywood Bowl") than your prior marriage tales. I haven't seen any role-playing at the Bowl in recent years, but I recall that back in the '30s Max Reinhardt staged his famous Dream there.
I was happy to see that the guy had a home & wife to go to after being rejected by the director, but I hope he has found another gig. One can't live on love alone, right?*
Love may not be "waiving,"
but neither will the stomach's craving.
~ OMK
___________
* Sorry to be so crass.
Well, Scott was a man of his time, wasn't he. I guess you just have to let his characterization of Isaac stand. With some explanation?
Many thanks for the kind comment, Ol' Man Keith. I'll try to continue to be a bit more realistic in my romantic verses.
Your own verse, now that I've looked at it again, is very clever, with its bit of conflict and manipulation. Loved the "save" title, and how you worked all the Jumble words into it.
Wilbur,, your Cedric verse is so complicated that I had to work hard to find the Jumble words and solution--but there they were--a total treat!
What a fun morning your two poems have given us, Wilbur and Ol'Man Keith. Thank you both.
Wilbur, if I am to direct I should first read the original myself. My generation contented itself with the movie--as we did, unfortunately, with much of Dickens too, and other major authors.
As you have made clear, the several tales and characters within Ivanhoe deserve a more extensive treatment than one movie was able to provide, and a stage treatment, even a musical, is unlikely to be expansive enough to handle all the major arcs. This does not seem to be as condensible as, say, Les Miz.
I don't think it's the stinginess of Isaac is the big problem. There are a few ways it might be treated to diminish the anti-semitic bias.
Without having read Scott's novel, I would propose that a TV mini-series is the optimal means of enacting it. In what other format can you expect an audience to watch and listen to ten or fifteen hours worth of the same story?
If you really want to see it as a stage musical, it might be possible, but only if we have the collaborative ambition--and the gall!--to INVENT a new form of serial stagings, maybe six separate showings of two hours each, in which we could delve into each narrative at some length.
I am all FOR live theater, but there would be NO "binge-watching" our show.
Patrons would need to sign up for a season subscription just to see and follow the one EPIC production.
How many individual stories would you say are inside the overall book of Ivanhoe, Wilbur?
~ OMK
HOW to re-claw the anti-semitism?
Just off the top of my head:
1) Sandy's idea--let it play, but attach a note in a prologue, say, or in the program, to give it some context.
2) Treat it as a funny personal (as opposed to a group) quirk. Make fun of it, especially by another Jewish character.
3) Just erase it. Leave it out.
4) Substitute another non-prejudicial character flaw. He's constantly tempted to eat bacon, say, Mmmmm, but alas! knows it's not kosher.
5) Give him a back story of great deprivation that explains his need to be a miser.
Jes' noodlin'....
~ OMK
Misty, to say it was complex and that you had to search for the J's is praise indeed. I say keep doing what you're doing. Today's was excellent: A tale in verse. You might try AABB or ABAB rhyming.
OMK, ok. 1. You have Wamba. Perfect vehicle for Robin Williams. A clown who's the smartest man in the room. Wit galore.
2. Gurth. The swineherd who's all about task before animus about his station. His loyalty to Cedric and then Wilfred earns him his freedom. He does develop in the tale.
3. Cedric as I said today is obsessed with Saxon glory. Mocked at the Norman feast, proud, but of sterling character. The friction between him and his son, Ivanhoe, is a big Arc.
4. Athelstane was a gluttonous, sluggard. Reluctant participant in the tournament but challenges Sir Brian with no armor and then attains nobility of spirit while discarding noble ambition.
5. Friar Tuck is just a great character. Belushi would've been perfect.
6. Rebecca is a heroine in every respect. A healer, one who cares for all people. Lovestruck by Wilfred, blind to Sir Brian's passion.
7. Sir Brian viewing to never love again and falls in love with Rebecca for her heroic qualities. More to come.
And the villains. Prince John. POTUS would be ideal to okay him. Two peas. Front de Boeuf pure evil.
DeBracy. Mercenary but his word is his bond. Won't partake in the cabal any longer after surrendering to Richard. Prior Aymer. Greedy prelate of the Church contrasted with Tuck.
And finally Isaac of York. Loves his daughter even more than his purse but comically reverts to miser .
Richard, Robin Hood and especially Ivanhoe are great, natural characters but are stock portrayals done elsewhere. And here's the Wilbur touch. With Rebecca and Rowena madly in love with Ivanhoe , denying Sir Brian and Athelstane, Wilfred and Richard walk off into the twilight, arm in arm. True lovers.
There ya go
Great notes, Wilbur! You'd be great at a fantasy casting game.
Though I hate to break it to you about Robin Williams...
I can see your finale now. Played by Bogart and Claude Rains, once that Bergman dame gets dumped.
All the great ones are gone. I would have proposed Jack MacGowran as Wamba.
And, yeah, Belushi would've been great. Is his bro too tame?
What can be done these days with CGI?
~ OMK
Yes, I know Robin Williams passed away, RiP. I loved Popeye.
I like your idea of a multi-week series. I'd want to go with the Musical idea. Les Miserables and Hamilton were very long. I might be able to get it done in 3 1/2 hours.
WC
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