In the feature, I'll share with you all a guest, and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.
In Three Words...
George Bernard Shaw
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
I know who he is. But never read any of his writing. That over three words.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent man.
ReplyDeleteAs in the Oscar Wilde description of him: "An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."
Jx
It's good to read of an Oscar witticism (and this one is a perfect illustration) that comes from the man himself rather than from a character in one of his plays, which are too often erroneously thought that they must be what O.W. himself thought.
DeleteHe wrote Pygmalion.
ReplyDeleteMy Fair Lady.... Actually he wrote Pygmalion, which Lerner and Lowe turned into the hit Broadway musical.
ReplyDeleteIt's remarkable how much of Pygmalion''s actual textual words are transferred into the stage musical. All credit to Alan Jay Lerner, the writer of the 'book' and, of course, the lyricist - even putting some of the play's original words into a number of the songs.
DeleteTundra Bunny here...
ReplyDeleteIrish playwright.
Neil Simon radicalized.
ReplyDeleteSocialist, brilliant, exasperating.
ReplyDeleteTheatre, Culture and Politics .
ReplyDeleteRevolutionizing comedic drama.
ReplyDeleteComplex, Dark, Controversial
ReplyDeleteSocialist, Activist, Intellectual. I once read a snippet of an editorial somewhere that followed his death, put it, “GBS was so big that we all have our own private Shaws”.
ReplyDeleteNobel,Oscar, Winner
ReplyDeleteHeard of him.
ReplyDeleteHe hated Shakespeare.
ReplyDeleteFabian Society member (and so were my parents).
ReplyDeleteFirst famous anti-vaxxer?
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