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    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    I understand exactly what you mean, darkblue, *Mad Men* is depressing me for some reason this season. Maybe it's the charcters..

     

    though my period of a profound sense of deju-vu exists late WW2 till 1960. Movies from that period have such a strong psychic pull. Then, I was 8 when 1960 happened, and oh, do I remember and loved *Route 66* (I liked Tod -Martin Milner) My older brother's faithfully watched every Friday night--was it Fridays? I seem to think it was.

    Why they said "stop" in telegrams in old movies Pt 2

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    h4. My folks were not as nostalgic as they said they were.

    My parents have received telegrams many times through the years. They never saved a one.

    My aunt Florence in Duluth (MN not GA) saved her unused A gas coupons she had left over after we fought and won in WW2.

     

    Let this be a lesson for all of us.

    Saved something that marks a sense of space and time. Most of us have held on to one magazine of our youth.

     

    I have a floppy disk around just to prove it existed. My grandchildren may not believe me.

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    Love the pic of Riverboat Landing Restaurant in Wilmington, I will need to visit that someday; don't even care what the food taste like.

     

    h4. Glacier National Park

     

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    A little 3 mile hike up to this lake on The Road to the Sun

     

    h5. I will try to find some more shots without me and my uncle Arvid in them.

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 25, 2012 7:32 AM

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    My goodness, what a conversation. Feels like the dinner party from DINNER AT EIGHT.

     

    I was thinking of Pasadena, then my security software starting acting up, and couldn't get anything done!..

     

    Anyway, I heard a request for the West, and I haven't access right now to my files of Glacier NP, I do have some others of wild beauty, after a house..

     

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    h4. Pasadena Craftsman

     

    Some miles north off the PCH, south of San Simeon..

     

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    h4. California coast

     

    *Bonne nuit..*

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 25, 2012 1:08 AM

    Men's movies

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    Learn to make a statement as a question, Dargo2, if you wish to be gentler in communication. Thats the kindest odservation I could make of your post. You also put it as an absolute, and the only certainty is death.

     

    I did not intended my post to read as passive-agressive, but you seemed to be mocking yourself as victim, and that's a shame, for you appear to made of much stronger stuff.

     

    It is sad that there are people who live intimidated by their spouse's reaction and that determines their behavior. I dont think anyone deserves to be treated as such.

     

    As far as my own failed relationship, the one person who deserved to know what happened is the man I love now. Those details of my life do not concern anyone else.

    Men's movies

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    >Dargo2 wrote:

    >I mean almost EVERY guy knows that if ya forget to hang up your wet towel after showerin', OR maybe forget to buy flowers on your anniversary, that THAT "of course" means that "we don't love our wives", and that there'll be holy hell to pay later on SOMEWHERE down the road!

    >AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

     

    How come some men can go all Drama King about the wife being a harridan Drama Queen, and the horrible payback they expect?

     

    I didn't treat my ex spouse like that, ever. Before, during, or after the marriage. I can't imagine how cruel such behavior is between two people. Manipulating to get a desired response. If you imagine you can control people, then others can control you.

     

    >Dargo2 closed his post with this statement:

    >(...just funnin' ya here, lady...I know what ya meant here)

    That's kinda passive-aggressive, isn't it? Could it have been more honest and kinder to make an exception of her first in your post?

     

    Let's be fair about this. I do agree with TikiSoo observations. The main focus of a Man's movie in revenge or vengeance usually is very personal and used to address a situation where the societal systems in some way have failed (the hero plays by the rules and is directly wronged anyway-- THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO), or the protagonist is operating devoid of a moral compass (people double-crossing each other, and we are shown the two evils-- THE GODFATHER).

     

    Revenge is not the same as seeking justice. SHANE to me is not quite the same in revenge, neither is HIGH NOON. THE SEARCHERS is a revenge tale, but with a great ending about righting injustice and the greater good.

     

    In THE WOMEN, Mary does seek a revenge- but of the Karmic variety, and it is bloodless. She is righting a wrong against someone else (her ex-husband). I see it as seeking justice. She could've just pulled Luger on Crystal, but didn't. Everyone lives to fight another day.

     

    Men's movies like _finality_ to it all. When the women seek vengeance, they tend to be quite deranged (FATAL ATTRACTION).. But then, that's in a way not a woman's movie either.

     

    Funny how it works.. Don't fault me for being the gentler sex.

     

    But this is a message board. There is more than one correct viewpoint.

     

    I want cogent arguments with film titles to support your views. I always like to learn..

    Born in the wrong time (?)

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    Not far from Asheville is a home of American Industrialist Vanderbilt

     

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    h4. The Biltmore Estate

     

    A look of the rise and fall, a worthwhile tour.

     

    I think I wouldn't want a house that big..

    Still love my little cottages..

    No CGI studio!

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    Tiki-

     

    I agree with you and VX that CGI is cheaper, but I am grateful on the flip side that it does incorporate artists in the realm of computer graphics. Now, if more of the directors can get up to speed on story...

     

    h5. What is this attraction I have to curmudgeons??

     

    Transformers=bad

     

    Iron Man=good

     

    Edited by: casablancalover on May 22, 2012 9:14 AM

    No CGI studio!

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    h4. Love your observation, clore

    >Clore wrote: You should read up on Cooper - he loved designer clothes, traveling in upper class company, fast cars and faster women. He wasn't much different than many of today's celebrities and he still has detractors who say he wasn't much of an actor.

    >The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    If you substitute the name *Cooper* for the name *Clooney,* you open my eyes to how others see things. Maybe some here will idolize the work of an actor only once the actor is no longer around. By then, he's a classic. Not classical, but part of that wonderful idolize memory of something. Not that it's a bad thing, not at all! It's just perspective of life.

    Off Topic: Favorite Music?

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    I never associated Edwin Starr with disco. I remember him for [War|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk] . Great song, for some of us in the day.

     

    Here's another from the earlier period.

     

    [25 Miles|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEMmewFj6k&feature=fvst]

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