From my Celebrity News Beat, the details of Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell’s wedding:
One of Stewart and Ozell’s favorite moments was when Ozell’s maid of honor, Jillian LaVinka (with whom Ozell waitressed at Brooklyn’s artisanal pizza staple, Franny’s), got up to do a reading. She had a large Bible in her hand, and the secular-leaning audience let out a heavy sigh. But in the middle of the Bible’s pages, LaVinka had pasted a sheet of selected lyrics from classic rock songs that she proceeded to read, including a bit from Sting’s “Englishman in New York.”
Discuss: What lyrics from “Englishman in New York” would you read at such a wedding? You know, a real urbane audience, none of your Bible-thumpers.
My bet is on these verses, because they are uninterrupted by the chorus
Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle’s brighter than the sun
Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run
If, “Manners maketh man” as someone said
Then he’s the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
If you can break your legs and sprint a mile
And crab-crawl backward up the track you ran,
If you can suffer ignorance and smile
And be polite — my son, you’ll be a Man.
“At night a candle’s brighter than the sun.”
Included in ja’s bit, I know, but to me, the most fitting being read out of a Bible.
The trouble, of course, with “Be yourself, no matter what they say” is that it assumes that I am not a racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, adulterous, hateful, narrow-minded, misogynistic, judgmental, hypocritical asshole.
Never change, Matthew.
Thanks S.E…I guess. Maranatha.
It’s the tide. It’s the dismal tide. It is not the one thing.
And then there’s this guy: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/18/giants-cb-prince-amukamara-some-people-call-me-the-black-tim-tebow/
Heh. Yeah, I thought of posting that.
Then I thought it would be too obvious – too obviously self-serving.
He won’t last, anyway; he’ll be done by season’s end.
Nice guys always finish – well, reaching for the Grey Cup in the CFL.
JOB
Walker Percy might go with “I’m an alien.”
Katy Perry ft. Walker Percy
Noted Englishman Falstaff might like to have a word with Mr. Sting about this modestry, propriety, sobriety business.
Yeah, the national character — or at least, stereotypes thereof — shifted a bit over the centuries.
“But both Stewart and Ozell agreed that the best outfit might have belonged to the always dapper McKellen, who wore a gray three-piece suit.”
Nonsense. Click the link and look at his trousers. Then compare.
Nonsense indeed. See also.
The charitable supposition is that Sir Ian, rather than giving ignorant or ill-judged instructions to his custom tailor or alterations seamstress, was giving due consideration to the lilies of the field — i.e., that he chose to buy the suit off-the-peg, and chose to skip having it hemmed, so that he could donate his savings to some worthy cause, such as, e.g., a fund for the promotion of Biblical literacy.
Are you sure he wants folks reading the Bible?
The charitable supposition is that Sir Ian, since making the video to which you link, has come to see the light, and is now dedicated to sharing the Good News — so dedicated, in fact, that he’s willing to forgo wearing properly-fitting clothes, if such a sacrifice will serve to help spread the Light of Truth.