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>Red: (narrating) *I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew. Things went on like that for awhile - prison life consists of routine, and then more routine. Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises. The Sisters kept at him - sometimes he was able to fight 'em off, sometimes not. And that's how it went for Andy - that was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him, and I also believe that if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him.*
Morgan Freeman
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
(1994)
h5. Tagline: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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We started to be concerned about that latest "bike ride" ... Welcome back.
Not, Dargothe2ndcoming?
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>*That's all I've become to you. A pair of dirty hands. . . Well have them then!* (Heathcliff slaps Cathy) *.... Have them both!*
Laurence Olivier
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
(1939)
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True, to me 1973 is more of the soft rock with Bread and Helen Reddy, but the BeeGees were there too. It was happening, as surely as bell bottoms were changing to granny dresses and platform shoes. While there are exceptions, I thought by and large, the 1970s culturally were an awful time.
There was some good music too: The Guess Who, BTO, GFR, and the like. But AMERICAN GRAFFITI was like an oasis.
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To me, and I lived through it, 1962 was about as culturally different as one could imagine from 1973. It was already nostalgia.
I really enjoyed this movie, and coming of age in the end of the sixties, I felt captured right between those two periods of time. By 1973 I was grown up and married and felt little connection to disco scene at all, yet 1962 is definitely the time of my older brother's awakening and I was too young to feel it's pressures.
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I know how to get inspiration:
http://annetaintor.com/ati/taintorette-news/
If you haven't met Anne Taintor, you are in for a treat. It's Forties to Fifties women, and the captions are what I would think.
"The secret ingredient is resentment."
-from an Anne Taintor caption.
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Oh, Sans, looks like my favorite, Anne Taintor.. Love the cynicism. Hum another thread comes to mind..
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These 80s groups were a refreshing break from disco.
Have to play my favorite, tho technically 1979..
[The Knack|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ded4MZVVAhE]
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I liked it too, and I don't even like Gallagher.
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>Finance wrote: A starnge woman is a woman who is a starnger to the fondler------similar to a srange woman who is a stranger to the fondler.
I have a golf buddy that used to refer to me as starnge. He was the better golfer, and the only man I never felt I had to compete against. We enjoyed being together far more than keeping a score on the card.
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Not only will I tell, I will be taking pictures, lol..
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h4. Holes as big as double wide garage doors.
I agree. It was something nagging about how the story seems to jump ahead without much thought of what was happening. The only comfortable linear part was when Babs meets Joel the first time, and their whirlwind romance. And it seems whirlwind falling apart. What the....?
She had kids? They died?
THEN, don't go to the kitchen to make your self a ice cream sundae dessert, or you will be wondering why is she all gussied up running a craps table. And what's her dad doing ??
THEN, for some unknown, it seems 40 years have taken place and we have no idea how this woman got along. The plot jumps THAT much..
And I can't get a read for a spec, and Wellman, Stanwyck, McCrea, and Donlevy have this to work with.. Hollywood is a funny place.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 17, 2012 8:45 PM
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I missed this man's birthday. May 14. I will play my favorite.
[bobby Darin|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bRAtV-jgoQ]
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Still haven't reached the Polo Lounge either. I believe I still need an escort and he needs a jacket and tie. It will most likely be my son.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 17, 2012 7:24 PM
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More coming, Les Miz comes in December. More sung-through theater, shot in the real world.
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Look! misswonderly and TikiSoo, reaching social consciousness..
It is a shame about the Ambassador Hotel in LA.
I wonder what's the fare on the streetcars in NO these days. Rode the streetcars in Olso. Terribly fun..
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the Police
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>misswonderly wrote:
>It is better to have small breasts than large ones. Just sayin'...
I agree. You don't fully realize it until after fifty!
Carol Burnett as Norma Desmond had me ****, for Bob Mackie literally gave her two bags of uncooked rice (or was it beans?) for her costume in their parody of Sunset Blvd.
That's the best pic I can find, though it shows that, yeah, gravity takes over.
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Not wanting to mention, but I must..
*Field of Dreams*
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Do you guys know I am watching THOR right now?
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>*Hello. You are using unregistered weapons technology. Identify yourself.*
THOR
(2011)
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Thank you for telling me about the showing, I was enjoying _every word_ !
I don't know how, but I will do my best to make that experience happen for me, and someone else. BEN-HUR is best seen with someone you know beside you.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 15, 2012 7:49 PM
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Thanks so much, haven't heard that in quite a while. Terrible title for a great song.. I guess it was the times.
The Easybeats. Yes, I want it to be Friday.. NOW..
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SansFin theory is an interesting one, although I can think of films that do ask duplicate and triplicate suspensions, mainly falling in line, (If you accept this premise, then you must accept another premise)..
Casablanca is a perfect example. Not only can a member of the Underground walk around in broad daylight along side Nazis after escaping from a Concentration camp, yet not be picked up, but his wife can carry on a deep love affair while he's in captivity, and we love her for her ambivalence .. and he will continue his work -from America..
Harvey is another good example of multiple suspensions. --A man befriends his 6 foot rabbit after a night of drinking (remember the reveal in Act 2). His concerned sister wants him cured from his delusions,, but Elwood seems to be able to escape the sanitarium rather easily. Elwood keeps getting drinks at his favorite watering holes and no one wondering anything about it, while in public. Suspension beyond the original suspension. The friendly, delusional drunk. and other's see Harvey as well.
I say the story -and how good it entertains- lets us suspend our disbelief. It isn't about the number of situations seem beyond belief, but how well they work together to give us the answers.
I thought of another multiple: Jane Eyre.
Just about any fantasy movie is multiple suspensions. Does the direction of the story satisfy? Even if you know where it's going, are there enough surprises that you can over look the "wait a minute" moment. At some point, we want to suspend more.. Think about Princess Bride. think of the skeptical grandson. He wants more fantastic piled on, even with all the "kissing"
How many you can get the audience to accept for the telling of the story is the grail..
Born in the wrong time (?)
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Very Good Pics of the Traditions in stone, Jake. Beautiful pics.
In upholding traditions, it's hard not to notice the Masons and their Temples.
h4. In Mobile, AL is a wonderful Egyptian Revival simply called the Downtown Temple.
Unfortunately, it has been converted to a banqueting venue.. The loss of the possible interiors for their rites would be even more tragic than the building it housed. It is the traditions in those rites that are of incredible value.