Thomas Bowdler was born today in 1754. He was the chappie who rewrote Shakespeare and Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire without the rude bits (which is odd, because try though I might I've never found any rude bits in Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire).
Here is Bowdler's version of a Lenny Bruce performance -
'Hi.'
In other news ....
Larry Olivier died today in 1989. That's Lord Olivier to you and me, by the way. Whether you hate his camp delivery or regard him as the greatest actor of all time, he got it absolutely right shortly before his death when he said, 'Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.'
