Ugh

The truly awful Ethan Hawke Hamlet is on A&E today. It is only one step above unwatchable, and I'm not sure of that, because I quite literally forced myself to watch it through some years ago for a paper a former student of mine wrote at the time, and I remain to tell the tale. Watching Julia Stiles as Ophelia is a drudgerous calisthenic exercise in itself. Saving grace, sole saving grace: Bill Murray has a few glimmers as Polonius. But, what did not kill me....