Posted on 09/12/2008 2:10:24 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
John / Billybob
Mr. “I’m going to make government *cool* again.”
Because without government we wouldn’t have civil rights and our wonderful welfare system.
Oh yes. I saw it a couple of times, and read the book(s).
If it's still available, I would certainly recommend it.
The production values were kind of "soap opera-ish", but the acting was outstanding. You even get to see Patrick Stewart with hair as Lucius Sejanus.
I don't know whether History was kind to Claudius, but Robert Graves certainly was.
Bracing for that intense laurel-vs.-olive controversy! ;)
Be strong.
OMG! That photo looks just like Hussein! It’s the chin in the air thing that he does. And the ears!!
Read tonite.
ZERO POSSUMUS ARUGULA
“Oh yes. I saw it a couple of times, and read the book(s).”
Our favorite was John Hurt as Caligula. “Typical!”
Great, great acting there all across the board. Not a weak performance in the bunch.
Tatt
Greatly amusing column on the self-anointed popstar king!
Obama is like a dreamy psychopompos out of some asiatic cult, perhaps the worst choice for a potential moral and military leader ever chosen in America.
And his speach “I am the ONE” backs up everthing you wrote.
And his speech “I am the ONE” backs up everything you wrote.
History was not very kind to I. Claudius
A good read, thanks!
Yes I do remember (I Claudius) on PBS. At the time there was a ground swell of viewers who were displeased with the raw content in the production.
If I remember correctly?/ the production was based on Roman writings of actual content found in some archaeological dig.
Will it end the same way?....John F'n Kerry, the horse God. 
agree......Who could forget, (newly proclaimed, by the Palace Guards :) Claudius speech before the senate.....great stuff. 
Actually its a movie from a fiction trilogy written by British classicist, Robert Graves. I think I remember this right, Graves based the novels on Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus’s history, “The Lives of the Caesars” and maybe other sources I can’t recall. Claudius did purportedly write an autobiography, I think it was artistic license by Graves saying that Claudius hid the biography.
I Clau-Clau-Claudius!
Augustus meltdown: “Is there anyone here who has not slept with my daughter???”
(There wasn’t. Ok, one stayed awake...)
Great series. Look for it on ebay or amazon.
As someone quipped on FR, a Roman take on Obama would be ‘I Fraudius’
Wonderfully evil Sian Phillips as Livia was mine....a Hillary role.
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