Good morning, all! Last night, I continued watching MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, which has a character modeled on Moliere's Tartuffe and excellently acted by Tom Wilkinson, and by the end of episode 5 I was so curious to know the denouement that I watced the entire rhing and got to bed arond 1:30. For a comedy, it's quite dark, involving parricide, murder, spousal abuse and a Madoff ponzi scheme that bankrupts several impotant characters. The cast was fantastic: Paul Scofield as brothers Martin and Anthony Chuzzlewit, John Mills. Elizabeth Spriggs as Sairey Gamp, the world's drunkest and worst nurse ever, an actor I don't recall seeing, Philip Franks, as the kindly, but duped, Mr Tom Pinch, and the wonderful Julia Sawalha as Mery Pecksniff, who goes from filrtatious girl to terrified and battered wife; she had my favorite line "When you married me, you broke my spirit. Don't break my heart as well." I realy limked this miniseries.
Today, I need to add footnotes to my Main Report on BABES IN TOYLAND. We've put in a request for a new office manager, since we've lost the wonderful Matthew Brookshire, but the institute is moving slowly in replacing him, and I will soon get tired of begging for one. I dislike begging as much as I dislike being a scapegoat for administrative incompetence.
TOD: It all comes out in the memoirs.