prince of players and paper dolls ~

[lookingland]

i don't understand why no one's made a movie about Edwin Booth. maybe that's a good thing knowing the tendency to turn amazing historical stories into rubbish, but i think America has enough perspective at this point (and enough talent and technology) to do it up right. and what a story! maybe it's just too depressing. i admit i get depressed when i think about him. but so far as pathos goes, his life's got it all: deep dark tragedy, true love, lost love, fame, fortune, dereliction and despair.

anyway, i drew this for a project i am working on that has nothing to do with anything else that i have been working on, but which may actually be an actual submission to actual people. scary, that. we'll see. if i can finish it this weekend, i will share more. there's a july 31st deadline and i am notoriously slow at these things sometimes.

the painting is by j.s. sargent and was done in 1890. for my own picture, i made booth younger and gave him his "Hamlet" hair (and will draw a Hamlet costume to go with this), though the hair is not as long as he occasionally kept it. i am still working on the face, etc., so i may yet lengthen the hair.

ComicCon stuff is finally officially all done (whoohoo!!!).

Dark Knight tomorrow. can't wait!

happy thursday all!

Comments

[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

Your Edwin Booth is beautiful. I could already tell that you'd shifted his age down, before I read what you wrote, so you must have done it right ^^.

I think there was a movie, based off of Ruggles' stupid book, but I could be wrong.

[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

yeah, here it is:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E03E4D9123AE53BBC4A52DFB766838E649EDE

Richard Burton. I'd forgotten. I've never seen it.
Alas the review is to interested in its...colorful...language to be very convincing.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahaha ~ well, i can't imagine it was very good (consider the source and the era it was made).

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[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you!

you're right about the movie. i looked it up afterwords. it looks perfectly wretched (as expected). it's out of print though (maybe for good reasons).

i still think they ought to take a fresh approach to it.

p.s. this project was almost edwin and adam playing dress-up (from badeau's account), but i managed to restrain myself.

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