Blogging in English und auf Deutsch. English: A key topic of this blog certainly is Bullying, and what can be done against it. Deutsch: Ein Kernthema dieses Blogs is ganz sicherlich Mobbing, und was dagegen getan werden kann. E: There are still lots of other topics here, too - feel free to cruise around and take a look :-)! D: Es gibt aber auch noch viele andere Themen - schaut Euch einfach um :-)! E: I look forward to comments on my blog entries! D: Ich freue mich über Kommentare zu meinen Blog-Einträgen!
So, at the moment, I am 45 years old. And of course, once in a while, I think a little bit about the future - of how I will be in a few years' time.
But you knwo what's convenient? If someone does that for you, and best still in the hilarious way that Bill Cosby did, when he himself was only year away from The Golden Five Zero.
I have watched this solo program of his numerous times, and it still does not get old ... well, at leat not older than 49 :-)))!
I am a longterm fan of the American TV show GOLDEN GIRLS. I don't know how often I watched basically every single episode ... praise be to re-runs on TV and to the series on DVD.
Over the weekend, I collected videos with in-depth interviews with Bea Arthur (Dorothy Zbornak), Betty White (Rose Nilund), Rue McClanahan (Blanche Deveraux) and Estelle Getty (Sophia Petrillo) and put them together in this playlist.
The result is a wonderful hours long journey through the lives and careers of four great actresses, who not only amaze with so many details and anecdotes from the series GOLDEN GIRLS, but also have to tell loads about American TV in general.
On top, I added a few bloopers in a extra video; to be continued.
I love Sherlock Holmes, and read every story and every novel that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the famous detective. And I also downright adore the British TV series from the late 1980's to early 1990's, starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
Dr Watson, friend, companion, partner in the criminal investigations and chronicler of Sherlock Holmes' exceptional adventures, plays ever so often an important part in the deductions of the master detective - but unfortunately not in the way that Watson might wish:
"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."
(Sherlock Holmes in THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES)
I love these strains of humour that occur, when Dr Watson starts to walk on the paths that are Holmes' very own, tries to draw logical conclusions, and then ever so often heads off in a direction that is almost 180° away from where the truth can be found :-)!
The beginning of the famous novel THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES is an excellent example for this.
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In this video, I play both characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Please be so kind as NOT to expect costumes, settings and props in proper style of the late Victorian age - I may be old, yes, still I was not born in 1864, but 100 years later.
I tried to take up the references from the story the best I could, but took a few, say, "artistic liberties", too:
Finding a mandolin at Sherlock Holmes' side, instead of his trademark violin, is one of those things. And the attentive viewer will see several Sherlock Holmes books on my shelves ... and he will also be finding Nemo, ha ha!
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.
Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.
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