Things that Stick in Your Head for Too Long

Not that this is meaningful to anyone but me, but I finally figured out how I would stage the ending of "Sunday in the Park with George" in a way that would make it work.

Hunger.

The weekend turned into a Michael Fassbender festival. After watching him as Magneto on Friday, we saw him play jailed IRA terrorist, Bobby Sands in the riveting movie, Hunger. The movie takes place in the Maze prison in Belfast in 1981, where IRA inmates were fighting for the right to be treated as political prisoners instead of common criminals. The movie deals with the period leading up to and including Sands' hunger strike and death.

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