{"id":2635,"date":"2013-08-24T19:38:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-24T19:38:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:38:01","slug":"a-bit-of-stephen-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/08\/24\/a-bit-of-stephen-fry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Stephen Fry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/franklycurious.com\/media\/1\/20130824-stephenfry.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Stephen Fry\" title=\"Stephen Fry\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border: 0px;\" \/>On this day in 1552, the great Mannerist painter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lavinia_Fontana\">Lavinia Fontana<\/a> was born. Romantic composer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Th%C3%A9odore_Dubois\">Theodore Dubois<\/a> was born in 1837. Here is the first part of his <i>Piano Concerto No. 2<\/i>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;width:267px;height:25px;overflow:hidden;margin: auto;text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:-276px;left:-5px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycztvpO5jXA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Writer and caricaturist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Beerbohm\">Max Beerbohm<\/a> was born in 1872. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hal_Smith_(actor)\">Hal Smith<\/a> was born in 1916. He is best known for playing the town drunk Otis Campbell on <i>The Andy Griffith Show<\/i>.The great Canadian painter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Colville\">Alex Colville<\/a> was born in 1920 and died only last month.  Activist and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Zinn\">Howard Zinn<\/a> was born in 1922. Palestinian leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yasser_Arafat\">Yasser Arafat<\/a> was born in 1929.<\/p>\n<p>Politician <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Cleland\">Max Cleland<\/a> is 71 today. Homophobic climate change denying fucktard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orson_Scott_Card\">Orson Scott Card<\/a> is 62. Similarly inclined <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Huckabee\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> is 58. Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Guttenberg\">Steve Guttenberg<\/a> is 55. Comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Gould\">Dana Gould<\/a> is 49. Here is his take on the <i>Star Wars<\/i> franchise:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7fRaChMLtE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlee_Matlin\">Marlee Matlin<\/a> is 48. And comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Chappelle\">Dave Chappelle<\/a> is 40. Here he is on Michael Jackson molestation scandal:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEHVR9Hj_b0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The day, however, belongs to one of my favorite comedians <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Fry\">Stephen Fry<\/a> who is 56 today. He is also (and this pisses me off more than I can say) an excellent novelist. But mostly, I know him from his act with the also brilliant Hugh Laurie. Here is their great psychiatrists sketch:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PvV_gO62uHk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Happy birthday Stephen Fry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1552, the great Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana was born. Romantic composer Theodore Dubois was born in 1837. 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