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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Richard III, Was He Homosexual?
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 22:38:46 -1000


1. Serge may well have a valid point. Laura did address this issue.

2. We do remember this post from Laura Blanchard? Vide infra.

3. Once again, the East River Pontificator's [ERP's] memory seems to have
failed him badly.

4. I see nothing wrong with Laura's post. She makes some quite interesting
and substantive points.

5. As to the sexual proclivities of Richard III, the verdict on this
matter, as on so many others concerning this complex and fascinating
historical figure, still seems to be a Scottish "Unproven."

6. No one has condemned anyone's sexual preferences or been homophobic.
Some folks seem to be inordinately sensitive on this issue --- and squeal
even when their oxen have not been gored nor their horses harnessed or bound
improperly.
--

D. Spencer Hines --- Leo Tolstoy On Firmly Held Beliefs and Resultant Mental
Gridlock ---

"I know that most men --- not only those considered clever, but even those
who really are clever and capable of understanding the most difficult
scientific, mathematical or philosophic problems, can seldom discern even
the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit
the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with great
difficulty --- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught
to others, and on which they have built their lives."

Leo Tolstoy [1896] --- Source: "What Is Art?" --- Leo Tolstoy, Translated
by Aylmer Maude, in Tolstoy's Collected Works, Charles Scribner's Sons,
(1902), Volume 19, p. 468

Laura Blanchard wrote in message <>...

>The only person I've ever known to suggest that Richard III was
>homosexual was the director of the off-off-Broadway production of
>Richard III in Neil Simon's _The Goodbye Girl_. Some of us may recall
>how fetching Richard Dreyfuss looked in pink lying on that bed of roses.
>(And how he looked when the director urged him to play Richard as "a man
>playing a woman playing a man.")
>
>The musical version, now touring the country, has
>Elliot-Garfield-as-Richard decked out in a Madonna-style bustier, a
>g-string, and fishnet hose; the Battle of Bosworth is fought by some
>folk who appear to be Metallica's back up band. I don't even want to
>*think* about that baggage train, Alex!
>
>
>Regards,
>Laura Blanchard
>

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