I've been trying to read Don Quixote since before we even moved into this house when Parker was only nine months old. Now that Isaac is almost two months, I'm nearly finished with it.
Yesterday I decided to take another shot at the introductory essay Harold Bloom wrote for the Edith Grossman translation that came out only a few years ago. I really didn't understand or appreciate a word he had to say about it. I don't mean that I disagreed with any of it; I didn't understand enough to even disagree. However, in his essay Harold Bloom quotes Mark van Doren, and based on that quotation I got the sudden desire to watch the movie Quiz Show, in which a Mark van Doren character appears.
I have a hard time talking about movies on this blog because I never know how much it is safe to say. No one has ever given me the principles of movie reviewing, if there are any. What details "spoil" a movie, and which ones don't. Well this isn't exactly a suspense film, and I don't know whether any of you are ever likely to see it, but Quiz Show makes my list of favorite films. The movie is about television and the Quiz Show scandals of the 50's, starring Ralf Fiennes and John Torturro among others. I realize I may not be spelling their names correctly.
Parker needs my attention now, so I'll have to write more about the movie later.
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