casablancalover
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Heard Badfinger on Duval yesterday.
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>NASA Director: *This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.*
>Gene Kranz: *With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.*
Joe Spano, Ed Harris, Apollo 13 (1995)
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Frankie Valli:
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 6, 2010 8:32 PM
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>*Bonjour, Papa.*
Breaking Away (1979)
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>*Read it, roll it, hole it.*
Josh Flitter, The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
h6. Now I know why I love golf. It is a being sport.
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There was a christening today at the Church I visited. Very lovely. They sang this:
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Ode to Billie Joe. Excellent; maybe for next year on June 3rd. Throwing something off the Caloosahatchee Bridge?
Just returned from seeing the sunset on Captiva tonight. I have been Captiva -ted ....
I heard a good singer at an outdoor bar (right on the beach) tonight, and he sang this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THL5jTWl3ek
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 5, 2010 11:09 PM
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> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote}
> " I'm part Indian and I can smell you when I'm down wind of you.You baked today. I can smell fresh bread on you. Some time today, you cooked with salt pork. Smell that on you to.You smell all over like soap. You took a bath. And, on top of that, you smell all over like a woman. I could find you in the dark, Mrs Lowe and I'm only part Indian"
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> Hondo Lane to Mrs Lowe
> John Wayne to Geraldine Page
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> Hondo 1953
I love that! You make me desperately want to see Hondo.. Maybe when I return from my sojourn..
h5. I made pizza tonight for my son (he helped set up my little point 'n shoot video camera). So, Hondo would say I am a combination of Italian sausage and Donna Karan..
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Nothing else needs to said. My favorite musical.
One Day More:
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> {quote:title=shakespeare wrote:}{quote}
> Little Girl: "I like my coffee black, like my men"
> From "Airplane"
h5. Wow. shakespeare is here! In his honor...
>*She's magically babelicious.*
Dana Carvey, Wayne's World (1992)
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Thank you.
Honestly, I do post to please myself. Music has the ability to reflect our spirits. If we are open to it, it can change our attitude as well. All the music threads here are wonderful, and like a good film, adds to the richness of our lives.
I have been listening to the stations here in MN lately, and a little frustrated that they do not announce songs anymore. lol-- my son's iPhone has an app that allows the iPhone to hear!! a song anywhere and post the link to his iTunes account! Maybe it's time I bought the next generation of equipment..
Today, something rainy for it's rainy...
Rainy Day Women 12 & 35, but not Dylan:
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Marilyn, singing in FL in Some Like it Hot:
and, on this date, the late Sam Cooke recorded, You Send Me:
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h4. Happy Birthday, MM!
>*I think it's just elegant to have an imagination. I just have no imagination at all. I have lots of other things, but I have no imagination.*
Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch (1955)
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Could find no decent Young Rascals recording of How Can I Be Sure ... so off to bed.
h5. Something old yet fresh tomorrow..
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>*You see, Mr. Milton, in the Army I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His 'collateral' is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.*
Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives, (1946)
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This will be sung in many Churches this morning. It really is a hymn:
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I absolutely love this film too. All the performances are pitch-perfect to me. I love the contrast between Theresa Wright and Virginia Mayo. And the performances of Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell are very touching.
What do you think of the photography (Greg Toland)?
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Because I love Mildred Pierce, but I hate it when I fall asleep ...
h5. I think Eve Arden needed more lines!
ZZZZzzzzzzzz
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The Thin Blue Line. Very good, but for me doesn't compare to Blackadder the Third ...
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And what makes movie magic magic ? I think Casablanca is the something extra.. The editing work and camera angles are superb, with some of the conversation moving quickly and the camera picking up the pace too. They enhance the story, and I wonder if the editor thought some scenes needed that. At first, I thought it to be a mark of Michael Curtiz shooting style, but Mildred Pierce doesn't have that quick of pacing. . .
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In a letter, in V.O.
>*It is late at night and someone across the way is playing "La Vie en Rose"..It is the French way of saying, I am looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, and it says everything I feel.*
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>*I have learned so many things, Father. Not just how to make Vichyssoise, or Calf's head with sauce vinaigrette, but a more important recipe. I have learned how to live. How to be in the world, and of the world, and not just stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life, or from love either.*
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>*I am taking the plane home on Friday, Father. You needn't pick me up at the airport. I'll just take the Long Island Railroad and you can meet me at the train-- the 4:15. If you should have any difficulty, recognizing your daughter, I shall be the most sophisticated woman waiting at the Glen Cove Station.*
Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina (1954)
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I am going to look that one up! That is a great story. Hum, Evelyn Keyes...
>*Pax! . . . Pax!*
Evelyn Keyes, calling to Farley Granger in Enchantment (1948)
h5. I know; not very much.. But it was the one line where she could show some emotion, outside of her crying jag over losing Mr. Kennedy to Scarlet in GWTW.
Edited by: casablancalover on May 27, 2010 9:38 PM
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Gladys Knight and the Pips:
Midnight Train to Georgia:
If I Were Your Woman:
The Beatles, 8 Days a Week:
The Best Years of Our Lives
in General Discussions
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> {quote:title=kybabe3 wrote:}{quote}
> The Best Years of Our Lives is a classic. This movie, showing the struggles of returning veterans and their families. The acting in The Best Years is perfect -- fear, alienation, and the awkwardness of trying to resume family relationships. Although I have seen The Best Years many times, and I never tire of looking at it, I do have a questions that bothers me every time I view the film. The Stevenson son disappears. If my memory serves me, and I am not saying it does every time, the last scene he is in is when he rushes past Dana Andrews saying he will be late for school. Did I miss a scene where it says 'school' is in Ten Buck Two? Can anyone elaborate on this for me? I know it is not the most important of issues but it does bother me. Where did the kid go? He simply disappears!
This happens in many movies. You may think of him as a happy, but studious son, but really he is there for character development of, namely, good old dad. Peggy will overshadow her little brother in short order (she has the supporting storyline), but Rob Stevenson was needed to show how much the returning veterans, like his dad, had missed in current affairs, while they were involved in the biggest story of the last century. So his character is important to the story for only the first 30 minutes, if that...
1. Rob is grown up, but still too young to go out drinking (meaning-too young to serve in the military)- check.
2. Rob explains to his father the nuclear device and it's changing global influence, and the value of rebuilding broken relationships--even globally.- check.
3. Rob is aware of the importance of staying involved in all Current Events (when asking about Fred Derry's background and what Bomber group.. -double check.
There are characters like this in just about any story; it is just a little disconcerting to have a family member used in this short order. Many times, it is a character like a bartender, mailman, floozy receptionist, hairdresser that gets the job. Someone more peripheral. Think "Sticky" Merkel or the Sea Bee applying for a loan. Rob could have been a greater presence in the original story, we just don't know.
Edited by: casablancalover on Jun 8, 2010 8:24 PM