Six Damn Fine Degrees #176: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instalment. So come join us on our weekly foray into interconnectedness.

~ There are answers to everything. There were answers everywhere you looked…

In Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet, two courtiers appear in order to gain the Prince’s confidence and to spy on him. Our “much changed” Prince appears to have gone bonkers, and the two old friends are to find out what afflicts him. The King can barely tell them apart and the Queen steps in to correct him.

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #168: My Best Fiend

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instalment. So come join us on our weekly foray into interconnectedness.

Here’s a trivia question for you: which actor and director, who famously ended up working together, supposedly shared a boarding house in Munich?

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #163: Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #158: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #153: Ivor Novello in Gosford Park

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #140: Men in Black (1997)

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We’re not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here! ~Zed

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #128: A case for All About Eve

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #125: The Mirror Crack’d

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“After that, I didn’t care if I was ever again anyone’s favourite actress.” ~ Gene Tierney (Self-Portrait, 1979)

Caution: here be spoilers for the novel The Mirror Crack’d from side to side, and its adaptations.

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Six Damn Fine Degrees #121: Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instalment. So come join us on our weekly foray into interconnectedness!

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