SansFin
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> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote}Sansfin,
> We have all missed you so much!
I thank you for your kind words. I missed all of you also very much!
> It sounds like you had a great deal of good fortune on the trip.
It was very much like an adventure. I was on four airplanes. One had web seats along the wall like parajumpers use because it is a cargo airplane and passengers are rare. It was much more interesting experience than if I had waited for him to have new luxury jet available to take me.
> I hope your wrist heals quickly. Get plenty of sleep.
I slept for fourteen hours and have had a shower and then breakfast in bed. He has made arrangement for me to go to hospital tomorrow for X-ray so the doctor can have it when I see him on Monday. I must do a few things and then I believe I will have a nap.
> I hope he made you some chocolate buttercream cheesecake!
He said he will not make it because I become wanton and reckless when I eat it and he is afraid I may hurt him by accidental hit with my cast. I admitted to him that there is a chance I will hurt him if I have it. I admitted to him also that there is no chance I will not hurt him if he does not make it and let me have it. He has gone to the grocery to buy ingredients. It is sad to say it must sit in refrigerator at some steps so it will be tomorrow before I can have it.
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My body has returned. I do not know when my mind will arrive. I feel I am vibrating at very high frequency. It may be that I could hold a wire in my hand and bring in near FM stations. I am writing this as we are on the last road to home. I have been thirty-four hours in flight and in airports and it has been near to eight hours of driving for Capuchin to bring me home. I will post this before bed. I have made it very firm that he must awaken me no later than Halloween.
He is very mad at me that I did not tell him of my wrist breaking. He acts like fussing grandmother. He could have done nothing to help and he would have sent many foolish messages to tell me to take care. It is better this way.
My trip has been fortunate with no incident. I passed through six airports and last is only one which did customs. It is to my good fortune that they were very much informal and that they did not muss my cases.
I came home by a favor that I did many years ago. My father was concierge at a hotel for foreign visitors. I went there after school and watched foreign movies. I met a small boy there. He was ten years of age. He looked afraid and so I sat with him. He did not speak our languages and I did not speak his language. I bought for him snacks and we laughed at the same places in the movie. I saved him also long trips to his room by showing him which is the restroom for men. He returned many times later and he would have his father call me each time. We wrote to each when he was older. I saw him last when he brought his wife and his son who was same age as when we met. I contacted him with hope he would know some person in his company who would be leaving there and could let me ride with them to London from which I could find a ride to home. He told me to not worry. His son owns airplanes for carrying oil people where they need to go. His son said he could not make a fast flight for many days as his airplanes were appointed. He said I could come at once if many stops, very much zig-zag course, and long waits in two places would not bother me. I said yes, and he had airplane make special stop to take me up and I am here now.
I have had to pause my writings as we were speeding. The police here are nice because they will give you a warning only even although you do not give them money.
My mother's house belongs now to a nice couple with baby girl. I will not miss it as my mother owned it few years and I lived with her there a short time only when it was a bad time for me. My happy memories of her are of a different place.
Sadness of my trip was visiting places I have not gone in many years. Many places in which I was happy are gone and worse that some have been left to rot for many years. I did not think to visit them when I was living there as there was no reason to go. I went now because I knew they would not be a short ride away which I might take at any time.
Happiness of my trip was visiting places I nearly never went. I spent many hours in museums in which I had passed little time before. I went to the dolphinarium two days. It was grand and pleased my soul very much to spend dawn to midnight on Deribasovskaya with no intention but to enjoy it. I did that many times. I am very happy I was there for many events and celebrations in summer.
I went to St. Petersburg. Friend of my father let us see spaces in The Hermitage to which the public does not go.
I went to Kiev to make paperwork go faster several times. It is a beautiful city. It is not beautiful like Odesa but I see why people who live there love their city. I saw also Lviv.
My best savings was my car I rented. I had taken it for unlimited use when I arrived. I returned it in when I left the city when there was flooding. They were paying bounties for returning in cars. They gave me the same car when I came back. They make a mistake and did not do new contract. They could charge me for my first use and minus the bounty. They could not charge me for having it second time because their records said it had not left them. I paid seventeen dollars for nearly ten weeks of use. They were happy for not having to tell their office they make a mistake.
My apartment I rented was good also. I paid for a month and then again for two months. It saved him much as he has to pay a booker most years to find people for each week and he must pay for cleaning each time. It saved him time also. He goes north each summer and he did not have to travel to the city many times when tenants change. I have also my cousin repair the oven so it cost him nothing. He rents for one-hundred-and-fifty each week. I paid six-hundred-and-twenty for three months and we are both happy. I could walk to Deribasovskaya quickly by small streets. It was close to tram to go any place in the city. My neighbor on one side works in vegetable market so she bought for me the best of what I need. A cat of the neighbor on other side adopted me.
I have little else to tell. I lay on the beach and I shopped and I did tourist things. I had to tell my cousins' great-grand-children they have grown and I had to tickle new ones.
I learned my doctor is retiring so then I saw her in the last week her office was open. I was one of her first patients and was one of her last now.
I saw my dentist also and he did four crowns. He was my greatest cost as he sends molds to Liechtenstein and the crowns are made there.
I dread unpacking which waits for me. I took carry-on in which was two changes of clothes. I have now five bags and three cases. I have also to sort many boxes I sent of the things I purchased there and sent home.
I must deal with school. I am very late for start and I do not have any books. I hope they have kept me in all classes since I last spoke with them.
I must go to doctor. I am sure he will demand to make new images of my wrist. I am sure he will demand also to remove cast when time comes and will not want me to remove it at home.
I must make list of all others things I must do.
I very much missed all of you. I read many posts here when there. I did not log in to my account to say things because I did not want my username and password taken. Capuchin sent to me copies of posts so I would not miss important ones. It made my heart happy all the good wishes you have for me.
I am at his desk and on his computer now. He painted! All rooms are different colors. He changed the bed to one he built for me when I come here. He has been drying dill and rosemary from garden. It smells wonderful. It is all wonderful1
I have Private Messages to answer.
He demands I close this and go to bed. I wish to fight him but he is right that I need sleep. I will write more when I am awake.
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I am off!
I wish you to please understand that I am not referring to the status of my mental health.
Within the hour I will be leaving to go to the airport and when it is tomorrow night here I will be dabbling my toes in the sea. My mother's house has sold and I must be there to sign the final papers and make other arrangements of transfer. It will be also a look at my city which I will surely not see again for a very long time.
I have no definite date of return because there is no such thing as a simple sale of property and a forgotten piece of paper may take days to replace. I may have to face many days with nothing to do except visit shops in tree-lined streets and watch young men on the beach while I sip kompot.
I hope you will all please play nicely with each other until I return!
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It has truly been a fun night going from Gojira to Rodan to Mothra!
I am very pleased that you are delving so deeply into the true meaning of world cinema that you presented the proper version of these movies.
It is sad to say that most Americans know only the versions which were stripped of their spirit and identity by distributors who wished only to satisfy monster-lust. I hope many viewers were able to appreciate the subtle implications presented in these original versions and were able to recognize the cultural differences they exemplified.
I had nearly forgotten the impact of the opening screen of Rodan wherein Toho proudly hailed their color process. I believe more than one book has been written about the design and its impact on Japanese viewers.
It was meaningful also that you presented an undubbed print of *Hausu* ! The nuances of the actors' inflections contributed greatly to the atmosphere.
It was brilliant to end the night with *Empire of Passion* ! This fairly modern movie keeps strongly to the traditional elements of Japanese cinema. It is a very powerful movie and it was a great treat for us!
I believe this is an example of the finest programming as it educates, enlightens and entertains all at once.
I thank you, TCM, for your efforts on all of our behalfs.
I wish all to please note that I am aware of another thread concerning this night's programming. I I feel this is not a 'duplicate' thread because I can see what the programmers wished to do and I can appreciate the efforts and the movies in ways which are not merely an opposing view to what is expressed by many in that thread but is completely separate and distinct from that type of 'thinking'.
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I believe cord-cutting will slow greatly when the economy improves. It is far easier to surf the dozen channels you normally watch than it is to sift through the thousands and thousands of possibilities.
It is much like books. There is a great selection of fiction available for free on the Internet and people continue to buy books because they know that people other than the creator of the work deemed it worthy to publish. A program which is on an established cable channel is a guarantee that it meets some minimum standards. There is no such guarantee of material on the Internet.
Parents feel also safer when their children watch television because they can set the V-Chip or other protections or simply not subscribe to tiers which contain objectionable material. There are no such protections for programs on the Internet and pornography far exceeds all other content on the Internet.
I have found an interesting development:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/14/net-us-media-tech-summit-youtube-idUSBRE85D1NQ20120614
"Cable channels with smaller audiences will in the future migrate to the Web and become available on an "a la carte" basis,"
I believe this could become important as it would not require a channel to establish the very expensive infrastructure for handling customers.
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> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}
> They have no idea what they're missing, and they simply don't care.
That leaves more for us! Right?
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Tyoschin Bridge is only a little more than forty years old. It is a very special place. It is called the Mother-In-Law Bridge because a local official had it built for the two purposes of being able to go with ease to his mother-in-law's house because she was a good cook and so that she could not have an excuse to stay the night in his house.
Couples put a lock with their names on it on the railing and throw the key into the water to show that they are locked to each other for eternity. It is sometimes that they will put a smaller lock on the lock when a child is born. It is a sad time when the city cuts all the locks. It has been said that nearly a ton of locks are put on the bridge each year and they fear the weight will damage the bridge.
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I wish very much that they could split into channels of genres:
30s-40s Romance
30s-50s Mysteries
20s-60s Comedies
10s-60s MelonDramas
20-70s Foreign Movies
30s-50s Action and Adventure
The great downside to this is that there surely would be many times when every channel is showing a wonderful movie and we would have to chose only one to watch. That is a problem I would very much like to have!
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"Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind." Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
?I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.? Pentti Linkola
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
Samuel Hoffenstein
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> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote}
> It was watching old movies where I would say "I've seen that guy on TV." I certainly had no idea of their movie work.
It is the reverse for me. I know little of television shows here. I am currently watching Perry Mason each day and I recognize many movie stars in guest roles.
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> Ha! You're right, it sure ended lickety split!
I feel sorry for those theatre patrons who felt from the pacing of the movie that they had time for a rest-room break before the big scene and returned when the credits were rolling.
We have the advantage that one DVR is nearly always on and tuned to TCM so that if we find a movie is better than we expect we can "rewind" to the beginning and begin recording.
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> Even if the online viewers were to pay for access to the channel online, two million paying online viewers won't be able to replace the revenue from tens of millions of cable subscribers.
I am sure the matter has been carefully considered from all angles.
Nick Bilton wrote that he thinks streaming HBO is viable in the article:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/disruptions-for-hbo-still-beholden-to-a-cable-company/
He adds:
"Eric Kessler, co-president of HBO, must have a different calculator in his office. ?At this time, the economics simply don?t support a standalone HBO Go,? he said."
HBO is the biggest dog in this fight and it has always been on the leading edge of mainstream adoption of new technology. I doubt streaming is truly viable for any channel if it is not viable for them at this time.
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}
> Bill Watterson did a funny Calvin and Hobbes strip on this very issue
I love that strip very much!
A person of his talent does not need very much more than talking heads to imply wild action:
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My esso has said that *Deception* (1946) gave him a terror of ex-lovers with guns.
I am not sure if that would be classified as an unreasonable fear.
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> {quote:title=MissGoddess wrote:}{quote}
> It is followed by *Fingers at the Window* (1942), co-starring Lew Ayers and Larraine Day. I've never seen it, but it sounds like an intriguing suspenser.
I like it very much. It is light-hearted and fun. She is wonderful as a ditz! Her last lines are precious!
I have the feeling that they had nineteen pages of script yet to shoot when word came that they must finish that day. That is the only way I can explain how fast it ends.
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> {quote:title=Olefaithfull wrote:}{quote}
> What the article didn't discuss is the change in technology and the paradigm shift in play: Cable is dead. They are in the process of trying to squeeze the last drops of blood from their subscribers.
I believe it is their desire to retain some vestige of control that prevents channels such as TCM from offering independent streaming. No channel could hope streaming revenue could replace the lost income if even one major carrier decided to drop the channel from their line-up. Cord-cutters are a tiny percentage of the market and even although the movement is growing it will be yet many years before they become significant.
TCM is also tied to the other previously-Turner channels and I doubt such a major investment in equipment and promotion could be done independently.
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I have found it! It is in *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937) with Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery.
They are talking of Lord Kelton's intention to propose to her.
Lord Dilling: You didn't accept Kelton did you?
Fay: What makes you think he asked me?
Lord Dilling: Did you refuse him?
Fay: No
Lord Dilling: You will.
Fay: Are you sure? After all, the love of a good man counts for something.
Lord Dilling: Not at all, as proved by the fact that it's always a bad man who is corespondent.
This is another of my feel-good movies.
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I always glance into the back seat before opening a car door. I can not link it to a specific movie. I am sure it is because of many movies in which there is a person hiding there and they will put a knife to the throat or a gun to the head of the driver.
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote}
> I find that getting me to post in it will kill almost any thread.
I often feel that is my forte. Some months ago I made a tally and on the second through fourth pages of General Discussions I was most often the last poster in a thread.
I know it will not work now because of the same principle that you can not make it rain by washing your car.
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> {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote}
> Sidney Toler Charlie Chan movies
I like these very much and I wish TCM would air them all.
I like also the movies with Roland Winters and with Warner Oland.
Sojin was an excellent Charlie Chan in a silent movie.
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> {quote:title=rohanaka wrote:}{quote}
> Oh.. and as a "ringer" ha.. just for fun, I'll add Lady Hawk..
I have seen only parts of it. I liked very much what I saw and I hope to watch all of it soon.
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I prefer my feel-good movies to have no strong antagonist. I like the tension to come from the situation and when it is a person conquering their inhibitions.
My next ten feel-good movies:
*If I Were King* (1938)
*Midnight* (1939)
*Munchhausen* (1943)
*My Life With Caroline* (1941)
*My Neighbor Totoro* (1993)
*Raffles* (1930)
*Sabrina* (1954)
*Sweet November* (1968)
*The Thomas Crown Affair* (1968)
*Whisper of the Heart* (1995)
BRONXGIRL'S MOTHER, HENRY FONDA'S HIRSUTENESS, ETC.
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> rest well and welcome back! We missed you!
I thank you for your kind words and warm welcome.
> look forward to hearing what trinkets are in those suitcases and boxes you brought back!
It is mostly all clothes. It is not my nature to have large wardrobe. I have found it to be a problem here to have only a few clothes. One of the boxes is six suits which are alike in all ways except they are different colors. Other boxes are other clothes and shoes and boots.
I brought back also candy and liquor I can not find here. I found for Capuchin a glass dragon.
I brought also all of my possessions which were at my mother's house.