From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Off-Topic: For those of you who hate ST: 2009   
      
   Graeme wrote:   
     Wickeddoll  wrote:   
   >> Which is that? I own all of the TZ versions, and don't remember that one   
   >> at all.  You sure it wasn't something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents?   
   >> It's not the old Outer Limits, either; those I know very well, since I   
   >> have both seasons.   
   >    
   > I'm pretty sure it was Twilight Zone.  One of the hour long Season 4   
   > episodes.  I think the title was just "The Bard".  The plot involved   
   > Shakespeare in the present helping the hack writer, and had lots of   
   > little satirical observations on the nature of TV.   
      
   Oh yeah - I thought of that one, but was thinking it was about something    
   else.  HATE it, so I never watch it.  The main actor gets on my nerves. LOL   
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   >> Not my favorite BA - I like 2 & 3 best, with Hugh Laurie playing that   
   >> idjit George.  I think he's a much better comedian than dramatic actor,   
   >> though he's amazing in any part.   
   >    
   > I just used that quote because it fit what I was talking about.  They   
   > were performing the play "Death of a Scotsman", which takes place in   
   > Egypt, to try to get McAngus killed, by substituting real knives for   
   > the stage knives he gets stabbed with.  The Queen and Harry are   
   > watching, the Queen asks what a Scotsman is doing in Egypt in the   
   > first place.  Harry doesn't know either, but knows that the play got   
   > good reviews, which is all that matters to him.   
      
   LOL   
   >    
   > It sort of reminded me of how they'd stuck the Azim character into the   
   > Kevin Costner Robin Hood.  What's a Muslim warrior doing in the Robin   
   > Hood tales?  I don't know, but apparently we're supposed to like it.   
   > The reviewers did.  (It sounds like we'll be having the same   
   > discussion about the Thor movie too.)   
      
   I thought he was just made up for the part, but Freeman, as usual, was    
   so cool to see.   
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   > Usually any time I can come up with a quote from a movie or TV that   
   > fits what I'm posting about, especially from Red Dwarf or Blackadder,   
   > it ends up as a sig.   
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   Heh - great Britcoms!   
      
   Natalie   
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