FrankGrimes
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Shhhh.....Don't tell Miss Butterscotch! I'll be forever lost from her good graces.
Are you kidding me? She needs to know the truth. She needs to know just how bad of an
influence you truly are. But I fear Smithy has strangled Sweet T. She has suddenly
disappeared. You and Smithy were the last to have been with her. I can't imagine
you doing something horr... wait a minute. What have you done with sweet and innocent
Butterscotch?
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Yes, if you count Carol Burnett's send up. And I loved it!
You actually do have a pretty good sense of humor... for a snippy blonde.
But then, I'm not a big fan of musicals.
Maybe there's still hope for you after all.
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Thank you, Mr Grimes. Compliments are always welcome.
I'll be sure not to make the same mistake twice.
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It's now a musical on the West End:
I'm sure that would be a very different Gone with the Wind experience. Have you ever
seen a different incarnation of Gone with the Wind. Something tells me you would be
extra critical of such an event.
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I have low expectations for the film since it's not my kinda of flick, but you have helped increase my want to see it because of Gloria.
Mine were pretty low too but I really enjoyed it. I think I was in just the right mood for this kind of film. It's very light stuff.
I'm definitely interested in seeing Gloria in roles I'm not used to seeing her play. That's where my interest lies.
It hit the spot after a rough day.
Gloria will always hit the spot.
Gloria is a knockout in this.
That's what I wanna hear. Actually, it's what I want to see.
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Hiya, Kylefornia -- Your poster selections continue to impress me. The Night of the Hunter and Touch of Evil make for a formidable one-two punch. I loved the Hedy poster, too.
Hey, Minya -- I love me some Night Of The Hunter
It's refreshing to see such wonderful taste around here.
(is it wrong to covet Robert Mitchum even when he's totally and completely evil?)
No, please do. Help yourself.
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You have no heart to break.
I've been told. I've also been told to "go to the devil" many a time, too.
And you're holding my past against me.
That's impossible. There's too much of it for one man to hold.
Jackie just very astutely pointed out who it was who landed the role of Scarlett and you had said she was your favorite girl character in movies.
I adore Scarlett. I just wish you did too, Becky Sharp. Maybe another lovely Southern belle will come along one of these days to fill your vacant high heels.
I admit I'm not mean enough to banter words with the likes of you.
You may admit to such a thing, but I do not accept such admittance. Your meanness is unmatched.
This conversation's gone far enough. I'm going to the only man who understands me.
Ashley doesn't want you either, Becky. You better go poison Sedley at some pomp ball. I'm sure he'll be glad to see all of your faces.
You are just mean and trying to be tricky.
I would never do such a thing. I'm a traditional gentleman. A traditional gentleman whose respect for you has increased thanks to you actually having the courage to admit you like "Vanity Fair" more than "Gone with the Wind."
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Oh stop being so dramatic!
I learned from the best.
I wonder what happened to MR OPEN MIND? You always brag, brag brag how open minded you are and criticize me for not being that way so I venture to say I like a book that's English and you go all to pieces. You are very narrow minded I must say. Tsk tsk. I've broadened my horizons and you are just a Yankee reactionary underneath in sheep's clothing.
So are you saying I'm being just as deceitful as you when I claim that I am very open-minded? Do you really want to step into that minefield?
How is it that your liking of trashy Jane Austen novels means you have expanded your horizons? You've always liked them. That's not news. It's also not the reason why my heart breaks so. I lost all my faith in you when I learned "Gone with the Wind" was not #2 for you. You certainly did rub it in, Becky Sharp (you are no longer Scarlett). You rubbed the break right into my heart. I always thought it was impossible to remove the sweet, little Southern belle from the Goddess, but I was wrong. Painfully wrong.
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You took advantage of me, with your twisty lawerly big city ways.
I didn't put any deceitful words in your mouth. I did not wish to have my heart broken. If I'm guilty of anything, it's that I was damn foolish to believe you were a sweet Gone with the Windy Southern belle. Sweet T had been trying and trying to convince me of this despite my severe reluctance. Finally, I gave in. I figured Sweet T couldn't be wrong. She just couldn't be. Well, I cannot blame Sweet T for falling under your spell. It is I who needs to accept responsbility for being so naive, so foolish. I put the "Gone with the Wind" noose around my own neck, only to see a "Vanity Fair" "woman" hang me. I deserve my fate. I deserve my darkness.
I had only good intentions in starting this thread and sharing the wonderful news that many Americans, including me, adore this book.
Not that I like rubbing it in....BUT I DO!!! -- Miss Good Intentions
My intentions of believing in you were just as good. A harsh lesson has been learned.
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Life is but an empty bubble. I have been betrayed by someone who sanctimoniously claimed to be a TRADITIONAL GENTLEMAN but who is in fact a very modernly disrespecter of innocent females. Please!
I would never disrespect an innocent female. It's the guilty ones I disrespect. Especially the ones who have deceived me. The ones who have taken advantage of my loving trust.
Don't try to apologize or make up, you can never atone for it. I don't know why I should be surprised, you've behaved very badly before.
Apologize? To use the word of a former classy lady, "Ha!"
The scar on the side of your head is from you losing your mind. Sadly, I now know there is no scar on your chest. You have no heart to scar. You never did.
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I tried to lessen the pain for her by speaking of her favorite Smithy in such loving terms
"Jack the Ripper"
I said it in such loving terms.
I love the costumes in "Becky Sharp"
Ahhh, intelligent women.
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Whippersnapper, this may be before your time:
Yes, that song came out before I started to listen to music, but I do like Fleetwood Mac
and that song. I have a Fleetwood Mac greatest cd. Sweet T may know my favorite of theirs. It's one of my very favorite songs from the 80s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqrQg0lFwQ&feature=related
Becky Sharp/Vanity Fair?! Blech! And this is what women consider to be "intelligent"? Everything is starting to become quite clear to me now. And did you see how that trailer starts off? Such masculinity. Gone with the Wind actually looks less like a chick flick compared to that abomination. I've got to get to a "political meeting" in the Tuscan sun mighty fast now.
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FG should listen to you.
I used to listen to women but now that I've been burned by the former Miss Scarlett, I've turned reluctant. There was one thing I thought I could count on in this world and that was the Goddess placing "Gone with the Wind" on a pedestal. Now that I have learned the truth about her being nothing but a phony, I'm a shaken man. I don't know what to believe anymore. Everything has turned dark. There is no tomorrow.
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Rhett seems to be taking the news of your intelligent dishonesty very well. He's learning the very hard way what we hysterical, Dutch yankees already know about disloyal Southern belles.
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All this because I said I like Vanity Fair. What an hysteric it is.
All this because you chose "Vanity Fair" OVER "Gone with the Wind."
You've made your dirty little bed, now you must lie in it.
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Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse ME! I NEVER said and never
would say that I thought I was an intelligent woman. I'm mighty flattered if YOU
think so, but I certainly lay no claim to any such thing.
Jackie is the one who thinks you are intelligent for liking Vanity Fair. If
abandoning heart and home is intelligent then you are the most intelligent
WOMAN in the world. I'm heartbroken. I don't know if I'll ever get over this.
I need to go see Belle. She's a REAL woman with a heart, not a phony British
society girl with a "brain."
Now who wrote this?:
Not that I like rubbing it in....BUT I DO!!!
Gone with the Wind---the novel by Margaret Mitchell---was just named in a poll as
the favorite book after The Bible by Americans:
What are you rubbing in? You're not one of the Americans who thinks "Gone with
the Wind" is the second best book. Your words above led me to believe you were
one, but alas, you ain't. The only thing you rubbed in was Rhett's nose in the muck.
Even though I knew you were wrongheaded for liking "Gone with the Wind," I still
respected your Southern belle roots. I found it to be rather charming. What a
fool I was to believe in such a princessy story. It pains me to know, there's not going
to be a tomorrow.
I simply said Vanity Fair was my favorite novel and my goodness, you kick up
such a fuss! Calling me names, a traitor to my beloved Tara and to Rhett and the
whole universe practically.
Simply?! You just "simply" turn your back on Rhett and Tara? That makes it
even worse. I never thought your shoulders could get any more icy than they
already are, but here we are. You are cold.
Theresa! Where are you???
You know what YOU did to her. You killed her. Her sweet little heart could not
take the news of you being a "Gone with the Wind" fraud. I tried to lessen the pain
for her by speaking of her favorite Smithy in such loving terms, but even my strong,
loving effort couldn't save Sweet T. I tried, but the damage you caused was done.
Her sweet little ticker stopped pitter-pattering. It just couldn't take the pain any longer.
I think you must have done something to her because she asked you mighty
politely to please watch Pride and Prejudice. But I guess that insulted your
manhood somehow. Tsk tsk and quadruple shame.
I have been nothing but sweet to Sweet T. I spend a lot of time discussing her
favorite films like Random Harvest and The Valley of Decision. I just
wish she wouldn't like such trashy films. I'm not into gory serial killer films or
amoral homewrecker films. I've got very high standards. That's why I find your
heartless actions to abandon Rhett, Bonnie Blue, and Tara for prim and proper
to be disGRACEful. The world knows no hurt as I feel right now. I'm afraid to say,
the once lovely Goddess has chosen to be no more. Well, you just go to your
precious little England. Just go! Go! Go now! Go!
You Dutch Yankees are such a prissy, hysterical bunch. Rhett Butler would never
make a fuss like you do. But then, he was a Southerner and thinks like I do.
Poor, sweet, little Bonnie couldn't take the news that her Goddess didn't love her.
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Hiya, Jackie -- Vanity Fair is actually the story of a less than reputable woman's climb to the heights of society , and is a satire of the "prissy" genre that you think you are being subjected to. The main character is a sort of Gloria Grahame type (I can't believe I'm writing this). P&P is also a satire. Perhaps your view will change if you know that... but I doubt it.
You have such great faith in me.
A less-than-reputable woman? Now I understand why a certain someone lists it as their second favorite book.
So Pride and Prejudice is not a dreamland story for girly-girls? It lacks priss? And did you say Gloria Grahame plays "Elizabeth Bennet"?
Under the Tuscan Sun would probably be more pleasurable for you than for any intelligent woman. It is masquerading as a women's picture, with the heroine going off "on her own" after a bitter divorce. But the resulting movie has a rather misogynistic slant. I don't think the film-makers meant it to be that way, but somehow it comes out ....well, yucky. The main character is a weak mess, because of her divorce from her really unworthy husband. She should find happiness and a sense of self in learning to fix up her house in Italy. Instead, the movie is about how she learns that she is Diane Lane- and looks smashing in a white dress. If you are Diane Lane, you can find love... and that is the most important thing to us little girls, isn't it?
OK. I am stepping down off my irritable soapbox.
That was good, Jackie! But I'm not an intelligent woman. Is there such a thing, by the way?
I'm an unthinking, unfeeling man who only cares about one thing.Howdy, Intelligent Woman Who Abandoned Her Simple Home (for shame) -- Let's get one thing straight, Pilgrim---I never, ever suggested you should read/watch or otherwise have anything to do with Vanity Fair. For your information, VF is Scarlett's favorite novel, the only one she ever reads SO THERE. Why on earth do you think she went down into the library in the first place????
So how is it that I ended up reading about Vanity Fair then? It seems as if I was sent there by an "intelligent" woman who has lost her way home. A WOMAN who is gone with the wind.
Scarlett thought the library was where the men held their "political meetings."
Well, La-di-da! I daresay all you Yankees always sadly misconstrue us poor, simple country girls from down South.
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Fantastic photos and comments, Miss G! I'm glad to see your noir gallery percolatin' with some Bogie & Bacall.
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And did you notice the reference to Russell Square? What's an English-hater like FrankGrimes doing even knowing what a Russell Square is or where.
That's because some silly girl attempted to blind me with such trash. I nearly passed out. Why would a Southern belle abandon Tara for Russell Square? There is no bigger travesty than such. Even my eyes are crying deep in the broken heart of Texas.
I suspect, Mr Grimes, you protest too much.
I dare say not.
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Hey, Molo -- You said you were gonna bump the "Double G" thread, and you delivered. I really enjoyed your Merton of the Movies review. I have low expectations for the film since it's not my kinda of flick, but you have helped increase my want to see it because of Gloria. I loved this line by you:
Kind of like if Violet Bick had left Bedford Falls, gone to Hollywood and maybe gotten a bit silly.
Excellent! It sounds awfully familiar to me, too.
What's shakin', Lively Gal -- As for "ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW" what are the odds that I will miss that? Slim-to-none.
Gloria's not in the film that much, but she makes a helluva an impression.
It's one of my very favorite of hers.
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Hi, Trashy Girl -- Well thanks a lot for that little photo montage-I saw it
while I was at work and I almost peed myself. And just as I was building some
serious street cred, too.
That got a laugh out of me but I remain dry. Keep it up, and that may change.
Howdy, Bronx Blossom -- Hello, Droog.
Look closely at the UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN clip.....closely.....closely.....you
feel yourself getting calm and relaxed....all male aggression and violence has left
your body....
(this is the film, not P&P or GWTW or CD with Sam the Pickle Man,, that will turn
you (as Dolly Parton says so eloquently in NINE TO FIVE) from a rooster to a hen
with remarkable alacrity)
I still cannot envision Under the Tuscan Sun being more of a "neutering" film
than Pride and Prejudice. Do I at least see some female skin in Under the
Tuscan Sun. Maybe a bathing suit, perhaps? I bet I see nothing but gowns in
Pride and Prejudice. Blah!
Hey Frank -- "Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble, one of us, one of us!"
I really thought Gone with the Wind was the worst, but all this Vanity
Fair and Pride and Prejudice stuff has me thinking differently now. I'm
actually starting to believe Gone with the Wind may be halfway decent.
Ciao, Miss Pomp and Priss -- yeah i cant see sweet april setting anyone on fire
You can say that again.
I don't think I like the sound of that.
Well then don't think it, Icy G.
I am highly insulted, Suh, by yoar lyin' Yankee backtalk. Mistah Buck Cantrell
will meet you and yoar Second at fuhst light 'neath tha Duelin' Oaks. Gentlemen's
weapons, of course.
Do I have to post No Country for Old Men caps now? Must I?
You eliminated the TRUTH! Who's a "traditional gentleman"! You are sir are no
gentleman.
No, I'm not a gentleman. I'm a "traditional" gentleman. Big difference. "Traditional
gentleman" enjoy psychos, gallons of blood, and decapitations. We are quite
traditional.
Ha haaaa! I think between me, Pyewacket, Miss Texas Tea and Bronxie, ONE of
our spells just has to have the right effect.
What's the "right effect"? Is it to neuter me?
Enjoying yourself, Mr. Burns?
Not yet.
I am NOT a Tara Hater.
You're a Tara deserter. You left the plantation. And for what, Russell Square? Are
you kidding me? Thankfully, I'll save Tara from burning down with all my tears.
O' where has Miss Goddess gone? She has taken leave of us and I fear she shall
never return home. The sun has set. There'll never be a tomorrow.
And you're not even supposed to be here. Oh oh, don't tell me Buck Cantrell is...is....NOoooooooooooooooo!!! And I thought he was such a good shot.
GWTW Named All Time Favorite in Poll
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I've always had a crush on Lindsey Buckingham. He looks like Colin Firth to me. (sigh)
Stevie Nicks works for me.
If Thackeray and Austen are too wimpy for your noir sensibilities, then I weep for your manhood.
Here's a hanky.