Cui Bono? We Bono!

[artyartie]

Bad, bad pun in the subject line, but I've just run across two squee-worthy bits of Ciceronia so I am quite pleased.

Google Video Player has "Murder in Rome," a 45 minute dramatization of the trial of Sextus Roscius, which made Cicero's reputation in his early career. The advocate himself is played by a handsome and utterly captivating Paul Rhys (they know how to grow men in Wales), and Sextus is played by Mark McGann. I've been trying to find this for a year or so and this just made my night, along with the next exiting bit of news!

The second part to Robert Harris' Cicero trilogy has a title and release date! Titan will come out sometime in October of this year, and based on the timeline (Cicero was just elected consul at the end of the first book, Imperium), it should hit the Catalinian conspiracy and possibly his exile. If you haven't read the first book, definitely give it a try!

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[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Mark McGann Mark McGann Mark McGann!!!

Mark McGann!

Oh thank you for telling me! Wish I had time to watch it right now before work! My heart's all pitter-patter at this unexpected Mark McGannity...

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

PS Did I mention Mark McGann?

I'll have to post it at mark_mcgann! I'd given up hope of ever seeing "Murder in Rome." Yay you!

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

Hee, he looked so familiar (it's those eyes!), and when the credits rolled, I felt nice and vindicated. And somewhere in the back of my brain, I remembered someone on my flist liked Mark McGann - yay for my poor noggin doing something right!

But have fun watching it - definitely let me know what you think of it once you do see it!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I liked it! Me bono! I'd been wanting to watch it ever since it was first aired, but of course I couldn't because it was aired in the UK. Poor ol' Sextus.