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Have you served time? I spent eight months in prison from 2000 to 2001 for a DUI; anybody else here shares that experience?

I have collected all the operatic versions of WS, such as the OTHELLOS of Rossini and Verdi. Are ye that knowledgeable about opera?

BLACK ORPHEUS treats the original myth with respect; WEST SIDE TALL TALE does not.

While watching the red letters all full of sparkles of the opening credits of this movie--which is in no way a gem of the musical genre--I noticed that a section had been obliterated, leaving only a blur of rouge. Why this bit of censorship? Some copyright issue, perhaps? A personal opinion: at the beginning of her career, when she wore her hair all the way down her back, Day was one of the most beautiful women of the world. When she had it cut, she lost 60% of her sex appeal; SHE BECAME UGLY. Why did she choose an style as frumpy and unattractive as the Mamie Eisenhower do, possibly the ugliest hair of any First Lady, except maybe for the motorcycle helmets favored by Jackie and Lady Bird???

... instead of the blasphemous travesty in which the noble houses of Italy--Barberini, Borghese, Borgia, Medici, Odescalchi, Piccolomini, della Rovere, Visconti, etc--are twisted and deformed into inner city street gangs???,And, of course, there is the even more offensive version of De Caprio, Danes and Sorvino in which the Capulets and the Montagues are depicted as Mafia families! What would Bill Shakespeare say to these pieces of garbage?

To live in Shangri-La is to live in a prison; if you set foot outside, you shrivel and die.

The 1980 FLUSH GORGON starts with Ming and Klytus talking in ENGLISH, and M manipulating a weather machine whose controls have such English words as EARTHQUAKES and HOT HAIL Later it is established that all the kingdoms of the Empire of Mongosantamaria--whom M encourages into hating each other so that M can better control them, just like President Snowjob and the districts of Panem--all speak the same language, a factor that usually encourages international harmony.

The epic scope of THE LONGEST DAY inspired in me a love for all the grandeur that the wide screen can accomplish.

That sequence is obviously intended as an homage to the MADAM LIBRARIAN number of THE MUSIC MAN; equally obviously, Jarrott, Hunter and everybody else involved in that misfire slept through the entirety of TMM. You will soon see Capra's version starring Ronald Colman; would you say that that novel was worthy of such high caliber talent?

would you like living in a place totally isolated from the world, where nobody and nothing ever change? I myself would go plum crazy with all the boredom and the loneliness!

Ever witnessed a FLASHFORWARD? BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN begins with Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley talking about the plot of her novel. At the end, she starts describing her sequel to FRANKENSTEIN, and the action moves AHEAD from 1816 to 1935, the year BRIDE was released.

THE GRAPES OF WRATH is a prime example of how the Great Depression had the paradoxical benefit of inspiring many important movies. In the 1933 KING KONG, Carl Denham looks for a pretty face to star in his new picture among the homeless women who stand in line for ,,soup in the evening, coffee and sinkers--donuts--in the morning'', and finally picks Ann Darrow, who is so famished she tries to steal one of the famous five cent apples. The Jackson KK makes the Depression Era context even more stark, portraying Ann as an unemployed vaudevillian who accepts going along with Denham's dangerous project because the unappetizing alternative is to work as a stripper. Needless to say, commenting on the Depression also affords the challenge of commenting on how that worldwide catastrophe caused great harm to all countries of the world, such as Spain. In 1930 the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera had to resign because his government could not handle the crisis. The republican regime installed on 14 April 1931 could do no better, partly because Spain did not have the huge resources available to the USA and the British and French empires, but most importantly because the regime did not enjoy the support of all Spaniards. Do I have to remind you of how the Republic finally ended?

Robert Duvall had no objection to playing Stalin.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Xander wants to end his dry spell with women, so he concocts a charm that makes him irresistible. Soon, every woman in town, including Buffy's mother, is hot after him. Cordelia: Who died and made you Elvis???

TV just finished THE SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS with an explanation of how John Kerr refused the role of Lindbergh because of the latter's controversial views. Am I to conclude that Lady T read this thread? Should that have been the case, I thank her. KISSES!

I wish I knew FC's biography well enough to answer your question; what is undeniable is that he always had an intense love for the land of his birth, and Poland in turn has always loved him back.

Venezuela cannot forgive Chavez and Maduro for abusing and degrading the memory of Bolivar, just as Germany cannot forgive Hitler for abusing and degrading the memory of Frederick the Great.

Speaking of accuracy and context, how do they fare in WILL? Does that show acknowledge, for instance, that there were no actresses in Shakespeare's time, and that instead female characters were portrayed by men?

'tis truly written: music is the universal language of propaganda; just ask Gustavo Dudamel.

In the golden era of musicals, the vehicles of such as Esther Williams were condemned by the Left as brainless bread and circus mush designed to lull the masses into mindless conformism. The American Left was not aware that Stalin enjoyed musicals so much that he sponsored the creation of musical productions clearly inspired by the musical comedy and the operetta.

Is this a love note for la nin~a Tiffany?

Lady Loretta dressed superbly.

Context and accuracy are equally important. THE SEA HAWK of Michael Curtiz is a WWII propaganda piece where Philip II of Spain is a stand in for Hitler, an analogy at which King Philip VI--the living replica of his ancestor--would surely take offense. That's the context. As for accuracy, every movie about the Armada of 1588 always fails to mention the sequel to that story: the Armada of 1589. The English tried to invade Spain with their own fleet; that fleet, however, was so poorly prepared--no cavalry and no field artillery!--and so poorly led that it failed abismally. Drake and Essex did not exactly cover themselves with glory; a lady from A Coruna, Maria Pita, was the heroine of that campaign, leading the defenders of her city. Molly Pitcher isn't exactly the only woman in history who took active part in combat without being in the military; the HISTORY CHANNEL could easily produce an entire series about women who earned the status of military heroines without actually being enrolled in the ranks.

Lawman like Matt Dillon are portrayed as some kind of a hero in white, old sheriffs were criminals or gunman wearing a badge. Like Little Bill Daggett in UNFORGIVEN?

Good, you got it: 'tis important to know such things as the fact that, all too often, historical events are distorted into unrecognizable cartoons. Charles Dickens was not a professional historian, so his depiction of the 1789 French Revolution should be treated with extreme caution.