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Ash Wednesday - Motion Picture at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Z-gH24wn400:01 Introduction
This episode uses a variety of surprising sources to examine Ash Wednesday. First this episode looks briefly at what Ash Wednesday IS and asks was POE familiar with Ash Wednesday and its meaning? Then George looks at a rather forgettable movie starring the great Elizabeth Taylor called Ash Wednesday (which gives George a chance to talk about Elizabeth Taylor and her conntributions to the world.) The motion picture Ash Wednesday is about Taylor’s character undergoing plastic surgery, and this episode ends with the Ghost of Mr. Poe reading the last part of his story, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - a fictional story about a man interfering with nature.
- What is Ash Wednesday?
- Do we know what Poe and the Allan family thought about Ash Wednesday?
- What two actors played the lead in the movie Ash Wednesday?
- How did George see Elizabeth Taylor?
- What happened to Elizabeth Taylor’s diamonds after she died?
- What does The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar say about the human condition of mortality?
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:45 Finding the subject of Ash Wednesday
- 02:15 Ash Wednesday
- 03:19 What is Ash Wednesday?
- 05:20 Ash Wednesday the movie and Elizabeth Taylor
- 14:23 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 15:40 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- 29:37 Conclusion
- 29:58 Future episode
- 30:47 Sources
- 31:13 Outro
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