October 2011
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The story to go with the other post
this one Let me just start off this post by stating that I am in no way trying to brag when I say any of this. My junior year of high school, we did The Scarlet Pimpernel as our spring musical. I was beyond excited. Marguerite had been one of my dream roles since I saw the musical on Broadway when I was 11. Everyone in the drama department (or anyone who had talked to me for at least five...
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Free online audiobook recording of "The Scarlet... →
Oct 22nd
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
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youcanfillmyblankheart-deactiva asked: To be honest I've only really seen the Anthony Andrews one :P But I've seen it since I was tiny and I absolutely love it! I want to see the show and see the old film.
Oct 16th
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“Strangely enough that personality of the Scarlet Pimpernel came to me in a very...”
– Links in the Chain of Life, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy FIVE WEEKS?!?!?!?! 
Oct 16th
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Just to clear up some confusion...
Many people think, because of the dates, that The Scarlet Pimpernel was originally written as a play, and then turned into a novelization. This is not the case. Baroness Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1903. She submitted the novel to several different publishers, but no one wanted to publish it. So, she and her husband decided to write it as a play and see if anyone would be interested in...
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Did anyone see The Office tonight?
Dwight wore a cravat <3
Oct 14th
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“While the Pimpernel swashbuckles and romances his way through the bloodiest days...”
– The League of Gentlemen????? Good God. Richard E. Grant’s own website can’t even get the details right. This project seems like it was doomed from the start.
Oct 13th
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“I get to fight nasty villains, ride magnificent horses and make love to...”
– Richard E. Grant, on playing Sir Percy. Problems with this statement - That should be woman. Singular. And really? Those are the only good things that as an actor you can find with playing one of the greatest heroes of classic literature?
Oct 13th
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Just read on IMDB.com,
As of 2010, none of the episodes from the second season of The Scarlet Pimpernel have ever been released for purchase in North America. Good God, there was a whole other SEASON?! Ok, well, let’s see what happened in the next season… “Season 2, Episode 1- Ennui - The Pimpernel’s fortunes seem to be slipping when he rescues a woman who does not wish to be saved, and his...
Oct 13th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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Guillotine - The Card Game
 Guillotine is a card game created by Wizards of the Coast and designed by Paul Peterson. The game was released on Bastille Day in 1998. In the game, the players take turns as the executioner, trying to collect the heads of as many high-scoring nobles as possible. Nobles have point values depending on how unpopular they were (for example, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are worth 5 points...
Oct 9th
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Remember those earrings I posted pictures of a...
http://pimpernelobsessed.tumblr.com/post/8346643764/awdicks-gotta-love-the-french-i-want-these Turns out they were the earrings worn by “Mam’zelle Guillotine” herself in the second episode of the A&E/BBC version.
Oct 7th
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youcanfillmyblankheart-deactiva asked: What is your favourite adaptation of the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Oct 6th
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I finally got around to finishing the second and...
Episode 2 seems to be a mix of plots vaguely suggested by both Mam’zelle Guillotine and Sir Percy Hits Back. It’s alright. Once again, a lot of people die, and Percy doesn’t use any disguises. They completely cut Gabrielle Damiens’ backstory, so you have no idea why she’s so hellbent on revenge on this one particular family of aristocrats. And the only thing they took...
Oct 6th
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I’ve never actually seen Neil Jackson in anything, but look-wise, he looks PERFECT to play Percy. “strong, clearly-cut mouth”  Check “tall, above the average”  Check  Double Check “broad shouldered and massively built”  Well, not “massive,” but certainly built! He was a championship boxer and a personal trainer before becoming an actor. “undeniably...
Oct 5th
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Scarlet Pimpernel Remake?
About this time last year, news started circulating that Fairbanks Productions, the new U.K. based brainchild of Dominick Fairbanks, the great grandson of Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks, would be launching it’s name into the public arena with a $120 million (£75 million) remake of “The Scarlet Pimpernel”.   The film was to star Neil Jackson, who has had roles on the big...
Oct 5th
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