The Gisborne Institute of Broadsword Polishing and Leather Lustering

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Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense

Master Classes available in:

Smouldering
Stompy boot wearing
Pointy weapon waving, and the effective deployment thereof
Exotic equestrianism
Imperatives
and The cause and alleviation of damsels' distress (Godwyves also welcome)

Me too Massive. I'd like to be part of Robin's gang, I think it would be a great laugh although I'd probably get thrown out for hurling myself on Guy at inopportune moments.

Guy is far and away the sexiest character RA plays.

When I get back from walking the dogs I will tell you another GH character I want RA to play, but on TV....

Guy is far and away the sexiest character RA plays.

Someone heard that, LadyD

Oh, re. TV, I've been meaning to ask you something for ages, LadyD! Have there ever been any Heyer films/TV adaptations? I looked on imdb once and din't find any...

The best parts of RH were series 2 between Guy & Marian, all the flirting in the middle episodes where he seemed to have somewhat got over her jilting him, and knew she was playing him but sort of enjoying it all the same.

But I also love the tension of series 1, esp after they were betrothed. I can't say as I felt (that) sorry for him when she punched him, I laughed my head off. In fact that week was a marvellous week of television as a few days later he really did get married in Vicar of Dibley. I remember the continuity announcer saying "Let's see if this wedding goes a little better than the last one..." or something similar :)

I have to admit, there was a slapstick element in that wedding, Insomnia. Not very authentically of the peiod, was it

Didn't Geraldine land Harry one too, in that "It should have been me" dream she had?

Gotta go and do some RL so no time to check that out on YT.

Oh, LOL, how funny of the announcer, Insomnia! So you've been a fan for a long time, then? He wasn't on my RAdar in either RH or VoD...

Did somebody mention Thornton?

::swoons::

Twigs, apparently one book was adapted for TV/ film (by the Americans, iirc) during GH's lifetime and she hated it so much she had a clause added to her will(?), something legal anyway, saying there weren't to be any more. Which is a huge pity because imo they would make a fantastic change from all the Jane Austen adaptations.

I was re reading These Old Shades while I was away and the main male character in that would be absolutely perfect for The Man. He's very like Guy in that he's a bit of a bad man to start with but by the end has his softer side well and truly exposed. All because of the love of a good woman, naturellement! The film running through my head as I read it was ever so swoonsome .

If you like the full, paper versions of the GH audiobooks then I'd recommend These Old Shades. It's set a bit earlier than the Regency - pre the war that ended with the Battle of Waterloo so it's all wigs and powder but still has the humour and fabulousness of GH's writing.

Having said that, there's very few GH's I don't like, of the ones I've read!

. Yes, you're absolutely right although the best bit of that clip is the dancing.

Insomnia, those were all the episodes I watched yesterday. I nearly collapsed when Guy said something along the lines of 'wanting to show her his passion for her'.

::palpitations at the memory::

Fess up, then how long have you been obsessed an admirer of The Man's work?

Oh thanks LadyD, mighty neighbourly of you, as they say in cowboy films. . That was to have been my first job when I got back. The poor Man, two punches in two weddings. I think he got away with it in Sparkie though, IIRC

Have you got to the bit where Guy is outside Marian's door and he says " Please let me in"

Though of course the iconic

"I thought i'd never..." swallow, gulp, groan "...kiss you" is in season 2.

How in the name of all that's holy did she manage to resist him?

Erm, Maud, sorry to arouse your interest un-necessarily. Wrong Thornton. I won't mention the third Thornton, Izzy Gizzy's horrid hubby.

Oh blimey, I feel weak just reading that, Massive.

::lowers voice:: I don't suppose you happen to know which episode in S2 that immortal line is uttered, do you?

Just found this review of Sylvester. I don't think the author is entirely neutral though!

Yes, Massive I knew, but felt I had to fulfil my allotted role.

By the way, I should have said that on my hols I finally got round to reading the Byron biography I bought a while ago. My My Bad Boy Byron project is officially cancelled and the script has been shredded as I have a new appreciation of quite how repulsive the old reprobate's behaviour was.

He was absolutely dreadful, wasn't he Maud? The way he treated Caroline Lamb was pretty shocking, even by today's fidelity-challenged footballers' standards.

Oh sorry, lady D, my brain has turned to mush at the thought of Gizzy wanting to show his passion, so I can't remember what episode that quote is in. I bet LadyV would know.

Great review there for Sylvester. I am so tempted, now, but I really shouldn't.

Such a shame about BBB. but Maud, Hollywood never let a fact get in the way of a good story, so why should you?

Turn it into a jolly musical, should be great fun.

Do it, do it, do it. G'wan, you know you want to .

And it's blooming brilliant - coming from a huge GH fan and minor RA fan it's obviously a completely impartial recommendation!

ROFL @ the idea of Bad Boy Byron - the Musical.

Now, who could play Byron? It would need to be someone who sings, dances and acts.

Hmm, tricky one.

Yes, LadyD. I knew about Lady Caroline Lamb and about Augusta, but what I found equally repellent was that he managed to impregnate Claire Clairmont in a one night stand, made her hand over the child and then because he found the child too troublesome, dumped her in a convent where she fairly promptly died. I have come to the conclusion that even having The Lead Actor in my production recite She walks in beauty like the night while clad in a floppy white shirt can not offset the main character's lack of redeeming features.

Minor RA fan she says I shall put it on my list, then.

Gawd, Maud, that sounds even worse than Eastenders Obviously you'll have to cut out the worst of the sleaze, for family consumption

Jeepers! Makes John Terry and Ryan Giggs look like relative good guys.

Nope, the Man must not be associated with such a fiend. Even his determination to find the redeeming features in his bad guys would be sorely tried there by the sounds of it.

Who wrote it, out of interest?

This was Edna O'Brien's biography, LadyD. It's about 15 years since I read the previous one and can't remember whose that was, but it must have downplayed some of the general sleaze and unpleasantness. Hence I came to the conclusion that there was no way in which I could make My Bad Boy Byron into anything other than a horror film and so I should abandon the project - there's a difference between bad and unremittingly vile.

So do you think it's definitive, Maud? Biographers sometimes disagree quite intensely.