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Cyrano

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Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

Casablanca: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Casablanca  is a 1942 American  romantic drama  film directed by  Michael Curtiz  and based on  Murray Burnett  and  Joan Alison 's un-produced stage play  Everybody Comes to Rick's . The film stars  Humphrey Bogart ,  Ingrid Bergman , and  Paul Henreid ; and features  Claude Rains ,  Conrad Veidt , Sydney Greenstreet ,  Peter Lorre , and  Dooley Wilson . Set during  World War II , it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, "love and virtue". He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her  Czech Resistance  leader husband escape the  Vichy -controlled Moroccan  city of  Casablanca  to continue his fight against the  Nazis . Story editor  Irene Diamond  convinced producer  Hal Wallis  to purchase the  film rights  ...