Writer, director. NYC / Londonhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlcjz5bh522nNothing could add to the tributes, but - His recent film on London wildlife makes London as joyful & new & strange as anywhere he's been. What kind of writer & filmmaker can do this? People called him soft on climate change. He said, 'You know what? You're right.' He's now a leading authority. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/08/david-attenborough-100th-birthday08 May 2026 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcjz5bh522nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlcbou732k2tI know Jesuits, not Augustinians, but there’s a close relationship & the tone here is familiar to me as, ‘It would be instructive for the rest of the class to have you flayed, but for various reasons I won’t do that’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcbou732k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlbx26jrfc27There is a lot of sex in Chekhov. A lot. He loved women, women loved him. Everybody in his life was a little drunk, threadbare, gluttonous, laughing on the edge. Including him. Andre Gregory got this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbx26jrfc27https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlbgfrrzek27During the 1848 renovation a skeleton was found in the wall, dagger in his chest. Said to be an actor who didn’t come to fight call 🤪 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbgfrrzek27https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlbajmu2vc22Joanna Lumley did Are You Being Served? twice. She was recently divorced from Jeremy Lloyd but still friendly. She said she was totally intimidated by working with them, but they were all very nice to her. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbajmu2vc22https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlb7jwp6pc27Alomar met Bowie on a session Bowie produced for Lulu (!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb7jwp6pc27https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlb72vhhos2vMarvellous shot of Laura Turner in my play I’M NOT THERE. Photo by Richard Hall07 May 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb72vhhos2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mlb2uvrnqs2vIn translation Frayn & Schmidt are best bc they’re playwrights who are also fluent Russian speakers. Richard Nelson w/ Volokhonsky/Pevear excellent too. Production, Andre Gregrory is unmatched. His Vanya (which I’m seeing in cinema soon, he & Wally are speaking) is the one Chekhov would recognise. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb2uvrnqs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml7g7jhx222wAn actor in my play went to the gym with the director. They decided to run the play. A woman was on the adjoining treadmill. She left about halfway through. 'She's had enough,' they thought. But she returned 5 mins later - she could've had any treadmill but chose that one, & stayed til the end..06 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7g7jhx222whttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mla3d4fjec2k07 May 2026 01:37 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mla3d4fjec2khttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml7ptsf6w22vAs I recall Curry said he did intense physical therapy & regained a lot of function- had he kept going he might have gotten some ability to walk, but it would have been limiting & he chose a better quality of life. His short term memory is affected but the voice is intact. He’s made of strong stuff. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ptsf6w22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml7g7jhx222wAn actor in my play went to the gym with the director. They decided to run the play. A woman was on the adjoining treadmill. She left about halfway through. 'She's had enough,' they thought. But she returned 5 mins later - she could've had any treadmill but chose that one, & stayed til the end..06 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7g7jhx222whttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml7azcmgds2vPeople get addicted because, knowingly or not, they like to think of them as patriots in British-occupied Philadelphia. You are not that. You have a shit job & no money like everyone else. This is hard. We’re all frayed but some of us have sustaining alternatives. Those people play spies. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7azcmgds2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml5l5icef22bIf you’re ‘reimagining’ Chekhov in ways that would make him want to kill you - in this case, explicit ties to Trump & MAGA - you actually totally lack imagination, & should be ashamed of yourself06 May 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5l5icef22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml5ie4j6j223When Gumby’s friend Errol Flynn invited him to explore the ‘service corridor’ of the house, the result was beyond his expectation. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5ie4j6j223https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml5ebgbwvk23Tim Curry always gets to the right place, but by a route that never occurred to you. No greater compliment for an actor than that. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 23:39 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5ebgbwvk23https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml5dok54j223Not knocking Skarsgard at all. It’s largely the makeup/CGI for sure. But think about Curry, who has an unnatural amount of charm combined with darkness, & he can modulate between them at will. There isn’t an actor like him, really. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5dok54j223https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml5d7fk4us23When Tim Curry says he’s eternal, he’s everything you’ve ever been afraid of, and he’ll kill us all, you believe it - and he also feels way bigger than the clown suit [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5d7fk4us23https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml4rl4zvls23Ringo's earliest heroes were Cozy Cole (showman, swung, interesting tom set-up, soloed, but great feel) & Chico Hamilton (precision feel, the 'painter' Ringo became) [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4rl4zvls23https://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml4qce3c7c2nAs Tom says later, Jagger certainly knows The Cure, Ronnie might, whether or not Keef does, he doesn't care [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4qce3c7c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml2zveii6s2rThere’s an objective pleasure in Cary Grant in an Anderson & Sheppard suit, for example, or a dress that shows off Ava Gardner’s legs up to her neck - then there’s this, or a pop star in stupid old man makeup, yet people act like it’s the same 🙄 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 01:28 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2zveii6s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml2yfhjpb22hDid I have a decent career in the music hall? Yes. But my digs in Wych Street had lice, I had cirrhosis, & the mercury killed me before the syphilis did. (Buried quietly at East London Cemetery, collection taken by fellow artistes. Shaw mentioned me sneeringly in 1948.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 01:01 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2yfhjpb22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3ml2oqtpbkk2gThe IT filmmakers dithered on prosthetics. Curry had found the prosthetics in LEGEND torture, but it was more than that - he knew he didn’t need them for Pennywise. He finally said if they wanted prosthetics they’d need another actor. They ended up making his head bulbous, that’s all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2oqtpbkk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mkzoue75a22gNot for nothing the term was first coined for Ed Rendell, who really did help turn Philadelphia from a backwater people left to an arts/culture/food/education/business magnet. He was born in NY but is a legit Philly sports psychopath, too. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 12:38 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzoue75a22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/wychstreet.bsky.social/post/3mkzinxxz5k2gICHIRO: learned Spanish specifically to better tell his clubhouse they were going to go out & do unspeakable things to opponents’ wives, & tell opponents the same [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:o4e7b2fcb6os35bwnlcmnzah/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzinxxz5k2g