Chimes have rung at Windsor

Our sun's quaint custom,
of always setting upon one
outpost or another of the
English language, is some-
times a great convenience
to the timely mixing of a
dry martini, more or less
at will. It's from that
amusingly distributed ton-
gue that we now recite our
happy news, of the jury's
successful completion of
another tonsorial tourney,
selecting the Haircut of
the Year in a single, u-
nanimous ballot. First,
the runner-up ~ a player
of distinction in the
texts celebrated by the
champ. For our part, it
will make for a fine af-
ter dinner treat to re-
visit his best work in
film, of that very kind.

And now we learn with

great delight, that 2016

will see a 50th anniver-

sary screening in several

American cities, of that

infinitely rich tapestry

of Bolingbroke selfies,

Chimes at Midnight (1966).

The Haircut jurors plain-

ly reasoned, that if deso-

lation is the inevitable

backdrop for the winning

haircut, the bearer need

not be the one to wear it.

Time to go and play.

                 Now comes in the sweetest morsel

                 of the night, and we must hence

                 and leave it unpicked ..

William Shakespeare
King Henry IV
  Part II
II, iv, 364-365
1598
The Arden Shakespeare
A.R. Humphreys
  editor
Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1966©

River Phoenix

My Private Idaho

Gus van Sant

  director

1991

Jeanne Moreau

  Doll Tearsheet

Orson Welles

  Sir John Falstaff

Orson Welles

  director

  screenplay

  couture

  art direction

Chimes at Midnight

1966

Bridget Gellert Lyons

  editor

Rutgers Films in Print

  Chimes at Midnight

  Orson Welles, director

Rutgers University, 1988©