[LMB] a funny thing happened, was Gender roles

[Marilyn Traber]

My 2 absolute favorite movie musicals are A funny thing happened and 
1776 ,,, I will slot in the dvds if I am feeling under the weather and 
want to watch some 'comfort tv' - neither one is particularly accurate 
historically=)

Funny thing is parodying classical plays with the stock characters, and 
does it in spades! It was actually filmed in lightly refurbished roman 
locations, the costuming for the extras was actually fairly good ... 
phenomenal!

1776 compresses the time scale to about 1 month, major oops is that 
Caesar Rodney survived and was in the political scene of Delaware for 
another 13 years, though they worked in actual dispatches from 
Washington and letters from John and his wife. Great portrayal of our 
founding fathers as earthy and sometimes bawdy people. Music is 
fantastic as well.

My favorite reread of Herselfs books is ACC/Diplomatic Immunity/Memory. 
I will fess up to having all of her Vorkosiverse except winterfair, all 
the elizabeth moon Serranoverse and the Harringtonverse constantly 
loaded in my Treo's chip. As a matter of fact, I think all 100 books are 
from the webscriptions pages except for a couple of vorkosiverse books.