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Young Frankenstein nw: momentum

THE PINK PANTHER THE BLUE LAGOON or THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

Anyone here like JAZZ? I have been a classical music and opera fan forever to the exclusion of every other kind of music. I have made attempts to listen to and appreciate jazz. I will borrow jazz from friends and give a listen, usually nothing?or not much. Until now. A friend at work loaned me some jazz CDs (ho-hum) and here we go again. This time something happened! In fact, I wrote down the date. March 3, 2009, and it happened during ?Delilah,? a jazz number by Clifford Brown. Oh Delilah, Sampson is not your only victim! It was just before turning in and I?m listening to Delilah and I was somehow smitten. Usually a new music happens over time but this was nothing less than an epiphany. (I didn?t know things like this happened). It?s easy not to like a certain kind of music for the simplest of reasons. There are those who will never like classical music because they just don?t like the sound of a violin. Or opera, because they can?t stand to hear a voice singing like that. Or rock, because it is too, well, noisy, perhaps. With me, I imagine it was something like that with jazz, I could never get passed that basic jazz sound (whatever that is). But Delilah did me in. The door opened and suddenly what was strange noise became a different kind of?noise. It became...music! One of the most amazing things to ever happen to me, to have an instant liking just come to me. Later on I listened to a piece called ?First Light? by Freddie Hubbard. I can still get a little high on that one. In the early going here, in this new world, I tend to like the ?heavier? stuff, I?m not too keen on smooth jazz, at least for now. I?m listening to Freddie Hubbard, Oliver Nelson, Clifford Brown, some Miles and some Coltrane (?Favorite Things? is a gem), Thelonious Monk (?Lulu?s back in Town,? among others), and more. I don?t know much about it yet but just curious if anyone would like to say something about jazz. I?m listening to various artists and I have cable?s music channels where there is a Jazz Channel. I pipe it through a stereo and make audio cassettes (yeah, I know, caveman stuff) and take to work and listen. Plus I?m accumulating CDs, the borrow-and-burn method. So...jazz, anyone? //

*All of the women were wonderful, just so very good, I thought. Josie Lawrence IS the star, and her Lottie is simple, sweet and infused with hope and joy and a kind of 'certain faith', long before those things seem possible to her companions. She is the light which guides, and all follow - whether or not they realize it. Joan Plowright has two of the very best one-liners in the film* ?and in addition to your quotes, Mrs Fisher gets to say, ??and I didn?t know Chaucer or Shakespeare either!? when Lottie asks, ?Did you know Keats?" And a minute later when Lottie confusedly says that she thought she saw Keats walking across the street, Mrs Fisher looks at her through her lorgnette as if she, Lottie, were from another planet and then walks over to a bust of her late husband. saying that she hopes that she doesn?t see her dead husband walking across the street while banging the bust over the head with her cane. I think the women get most of the laughs in this movie. And when poor Rose is labeled a ?depressed Madonna? by Frederick, I kept wanting her to tell him why. (That George Briggs, i.e., Michael Kitchen, likens her to a Madonna as well is one of the wink-wink jokes of the movie, yet it?s true that she actually does look like one. Poor Rose.) I?m convinced that Menersh has changed by film?s end but I?m not so sure that Frederick has, and I agree with a poster on another thread who pointed out that Rose might have deserved better in this story. How much time will pass before she hears that fake trumpet out of the corner of his mouth and snide remarks like, ?If God know so much, why doesn?t he do something,? (which isn?t a bad line when you think about it.) I also wonder about Caroline and Mr Briggs. Do they seem a good match? (I give them less than six months ) That was cute having her prevent him from stumbling down the side of a hill and saying, ?I had to grab you,? when being grabbed was the bane of her life. But how long will it take for her to get tired of her myopic friend and once again want to be noticed and even, god forbid, maybe even grabbed once in awhile. These speculations are beyond the purview of the film, and maybe it's not so nice to be so cynical about such a feel-good movie?but on the other hand, maybe I'm having a few credibility problems with some of these match ups. But I liked this movie and I thought it was beautifully directed, especially the first third of the film, up until the time Lottie and Rose arrive at the villa. The opening scenes unfold seamlessly and you?re right, Josie Lawrence, is nothing less than wonderful. Of course, so was everyone else for that matter, this is a great cast. The movie goes into a minor downspin for me as it reaches conclusion but it manages to avoid the super sappy treatment that it surely would have had were it an American movie. Pia, I liked the remarks you made and you really nailed down the characters in the film. And so beautifully expressed... /

Thank you, *Jackie*...and welcome back! Your absence from the boards never goes unnoticed. Hope things are okay. As you see below, *Rambler King Molo XIV* is preparing a reply. We ain't seen nothin' yet! Laffite, awaiting a message from the King //

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*no no, im just babbie!* Oh *everyone was crying like there was no tomorrow....thats what the teachers get for giving us an onion to cut. heehee!* They should have used onions from Whole Foods market. Onions from there do not make the eyes water. Onions from regular super markets do. Since you are, or will be, an expert in these matters, I wonder if perhaps maybe you could expound on that for me. Inquiring minds would like to know...as well as laffite's Actually, that's true about the onions. I hope you didn't cut your finger when you cut the onions. *i am disinclined to acquiese to your request of asking for thy rummy back. i also have a reason for that....when bellatrix hit me over the head, i developed amnesia and dont remember where i hid the rum.....see what you did!* Oh no, the amnesia card. Sheesh. I see I'm going to have to capture you and perform a Vulcan mind probe. We don't like to do that. Pirates aren't really into mind probes. That's a Science Fiction thing. But we'll do it to get the rum back. *no, but lucy is. heehee!i still think you two would make the cutest couple. how cute!* BLEAH!!! Do you realilze that you just made me go to the ship's infirmary and get something to take for acute nausea. If you keep making statements like that I'm going to have my barf bag with me at all times. *lucy has an advantage over bellatrix, she has a voice that carries!* I see what you mean. *princess babbie buttercup is a real princess!* Babbie buttercup? Hey, I don't think that was her name. I think you're just making that up. And remember, she came out of a book. A fairy tale was being read out of a book to a little boy. So she's not real, she's like Pinocchio except she has a pretty nose and she doesn't tell lies. Or does she? She's a girl after all. *oh come now, how are you so busy? i mean its not like youre out stealing everyone's prized possessions.....right?* Of course that's what I'm doing. I've go more to do than to stand around waving a fake machete in the air, or watch the goonies...or do Vulcan mind probes for that matter (I may have to get a hold of Spock for a mind melding lesson. Now let's see, do I have his email address...) *yep, and did you notice how she's watching him to make surely he wont pull anything? thats why she's smart, and thats why she has the rum and not him. heehee!* She's watching him because she's gaga over him. And he's letting her have the rum because he's humoring her. And he wants her to get drunk because she knows where the treasure is hidden and he wants to find out. *by the way, her name starts with an E....* Edie? Edna? Esther? Emma? Egglantine? Ecclesiastes? *i agree, there is an absconder* *and guess what, she's innocent and wonders,* *do you really like throwing peoples off the plank* *it isnt very nice and shows that youre a flank* A flank? Gee, I hope not. You might take me for a flank steak and take me to cooking class and make a Laffite Burgoo out of me for your final exam. And I must remind you I don't throw people off the plank. I may give them a push, though. *ask frankie, he'll tell you. heehee! this is a great 80s movie!* Oh, those Goonies. Thanks for the warning. The next time it comes to a theater near me, I'll have to remind myself to do laundry. laffite P.S. Who is One-Eyed Willie? //

*hey mon swasheroo!* hey babbie babushka! *ive been studying for midterms.* Do you have to cook something? *if they had an Olympics for imaginary vocab, you would take home the gold medal. heehee!* I think some of the word mavens around here would take the gold. I'm just a gobbledygooker. *of course thou has a habit of hiding his things from my sight!* Why, babushka mio, I am made speechless by such an utterance from no other than the absconder herself, and for the lack of rum that I am enduring still since it is still out of my sight, thank you very much... *she's ... (Lucy Van Pelt) ... helping me cast you into shape. * Are you learning to be a scultptress? *no, its just me, princess buttercup and lucy, vs you, captain swasheroo and bellatrix* Hey, that's three against two! No fair! Well, at least I got Bellatrix on my side. She's better looking than Lucy Pelt...and buttercup doesn't really count. Isn't she one of those fake princessessess? *im thoroughly ashamed of your conduct! heehee! this is too much fun!* Thank you! To a mangy ole pirate, that's a compliment. We pirates have a reputation to uphold...or should I say downhold. *who said i was the fake machete supreme?* Well, you must be. You said over on P&P that you liked to practice waving it around when you didn't have anything to do. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't use a fake machete to cut up the beef in cooking class when you're making your special beef strogonoff burgoo a la butterscotheroni. The teacher probably asks you, "Theresa, why are you using a fake machete to cut up the beef?," and you probably answer, "Don't ask." *ive seen bad pirates that dont have any patience throw them over the plank, havent you seen The Goonies? goodness! heehee!* Well, I would never have those pirates on my ship. And do you think that a busy pirate like me who is busy plundering the high seas and looking for the rum that you stole from me has any time to watch Goonies, for crying out loud. Geez... *well now i know why i dont want to go out to sea with you, youll put me to work! thats not very gentlemanly you know.* If you don't want to wash dishes we can find something else for you. Are you good at holding a machete between your teeth and swinging from yardarm to yardarm? We sometime need someone who can do that when we're plunderin'. Or you can be ship's cook. Can you make burgoo? *you notice who has the rum?* Yep...and do you notice how he watching her like a hawk? He knows how girls are. When he's not lookin' she's gonna haul hiney with the pirate's rum. I wonder if her name begins with B... (Very apropos pic...good find!) Why is the rum gone? Do I even need to answer that. There was a certain absconder The rum she took somewhere yonder Laffite looked all 'round But it couldn't be found So now he is off once again to plunder. L // p.s. What's a Goonie?

53 "He always liked lumps in his oatmeal. I hated that. Now I can have oatmeal smooth..."

Bonnie and Clyde nw : rambling

Hi Molo, just a couple of comments about Catharine of Aragon. You cover her quite well, I cannot improve on that. Your comments on the history helped a lot. And yes, Annette Crosbie was brilliant as Catharine. Here are two comments I have regarding the Catharine episode, and then a bit on Anne Boleyn. *There is that wonderful scene where Henry tells Catherine very gently, that they should separate. He does it gently because he knows her well enough to suspect her reaction and he doesn't want to deal with it.* I had a different impression here. I thought it not so gentle. There was a scene just prior to this when the King is talking to aids and urging gentleness but for me it did not seem so. He walks in the room, quotes a bible verse, tells her that their marriage is not valid, that they are living in sin and consequently have not been given a son, that they must not live together any more, that she must leave, and by the way, ?where would you like to go.? In real life, the breaking of the news was probably incremental and handled with more delicacy but with a dramatization there is a necessary economy required although here maybe a bit too much. No wonder she breaks out in primal scream. (BTW, that didn?t entirely work for me. I found it grating in a way different than intended. It seemed vaguely inappropriate. Yes, a shock, but I would have preferred a different reaction, dramatically speaking. Crosbie?s execution is fine though, and her the feelings that dawn on her as Henry says all this are beautifully realized by Crosbie.) *She stood like a rock against the current of history.* Yes, she does, but I like this nagging doubt at the end. She is a human being, not a saint, and her steadfastness (not stubbornness) has _partly_ been responsible for wreaking havoc on Church and State as well as for the unhappy fate of individuals. It is moving to me that she asks, ?Was I wrong?? even though we can have reason to believe that she knew in her heart, even at the end, that she was not wrong at all. Nevertheless, it?s fitting that our good opinion of her should take into consideration her sensitivity to the events that had occurred around her and by seeing her ask this we get a glimpse of an inherent humility and that she was more that just a stubborn woman. === "But you must give me a son," the King is saying to her In the Anne episode, Henry and Anne are shown to be quite in love early on. But as in the Catharine episode we get a leap through time to when things are not so merry. Her attempts of recapturing affection are offset by her repeated outbursts regarding his other women. Henry softens when he learns of her pregnancy but she is chilled to the bone when she realizes that his ?love? is contingent on just one thing. ?Once I made the King weep, a tear would be so precious now,? she says when she is alone and afraid but it all to clear that her only chance to have any power or to even to remain alive is to bear a son. I like Dorothy Tutin and I think as in the Catharine episode she rather steals the show just as Crosbie did. Although she is not what she was professed to be (at least while Queen) she elicits a certain sauciness and an insolence that serves well when she speaks sharply to the King. The abject fear she experiences during her pregnancy is well realized. Her performance is strong during the trial and after. Anne is shown to have great composure and strength of purpose as well as being a ?fighter,? as she herself characterizes herself. She has this excellent way of throwing her head back and laughing contemptuously?at Cromwell at the trial and later in this well-written scene where Anne and Cromwell match wits. Dorothy portrays a strong Anne who, like Catharine, remained constant to her purpose to the very end but also like Catharine, remained loyal to the king. I thought Cromwell?s portrayal was excellent and almost seemed comical at times, which is really saying something considering his treachery. He straddles the fine line between obsequiousness and antagonism in his scenes with the king. These scenes are entertaining. It is surprising to me that Cromwell would think about getting Henry to act against the Queen when he knows very well that the Queen is pregnant and Henry is hopeful for an heir. Quite correctly, Henry dismisses him (he hits him over the head with a book). Of course, later Henry is all too ready to listen. Also a special mention for the woman who played Anne?s sister-in-law, a fine picture of treachery herself. There are things to be said about Keith Michel and his Henry but later, I hope. (I am getting ready for Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves and If I ever get around to saying anything about them, I hope to say something about the King as well.) Anne did not have the leverage that Catharine had. The latter was the one with the pedigree, the front runner, and a queen of great popularity. She had friends. Anne was always the upstart, the interloper, the ?great ****? as she was known by the people, a term that Henry was only glad to use against her himself when it pleased him to do so. Both were strong women. If Jane was perhaps a bit treacherous at times (she talked of getting rid of those who opposed her and was partly responsible for the demise of Sir Thomas More) she may have been forced to use means that Catharine had no need of. (If she is a ?home-wrecker? she certainly got a fine assist by that King of the Home Wreckers himself, namely, the King of England.) Both Catharine and Anne were Queen and would not relinquish. I admire them both. Catharine would have been pleased that Mary became Queen and ruled?but it was Anne who gets the last laugh on all those who persecuted her?Elizabeth!!! /

*One of my Florida friends wants to join the expedition.* We'll take him on...with the proviso that he has to watch his diet. Crew members _are not_ on the menu. (Psst, whisper to him that Capt Laffite would really taste awful). Oh, and as an afterthought, it's probably really not worth mentioning...but, uh, tell him to bring the, uh, doubloons. ==

*tell frankie im not a floozy. heehee!* Hey Frankie, Miss B is not a floozy! (But if she were, we can?t be choosy.) *But that of which you see has placed a curse* *Thy life is doomed for trouble with this verse* You purloin the rum, then issue a curse, Things are going from bad to worse. *no no johnny thats bad for you* *for if you do, your brain will turn to goo* *i shall never return thy rum* *i summon thy to chew on bubble gum* A gooey brain will have no play, A pirate can't think anyway. The rum is always the pirate?s boon And makes him sing up to the moon. The gum will only drive him bonkers For, alas, he has no chompers *but she loves you, she loves you!* *it is your destiny to be shouted at by the shrew* *the dungeon is so full of gloom* *you wouldnt like that i assume* Hey, kiddo, I like this one, Reading it was lots of fun. The sentiment therein though is quite grim, To love her back is less than slim. Tis a destiny most horripilating, To always hear her voice excoriating. I much prefer a dungeon deep And from the shrew hear not a peep *for if you flee from the chariot* *no'ne will come to find you but fussy harriet* I would rather hang from the noose of a lariat Than spend a single minute with that Harriet. ..

Miracle On 34th Street THE SIXTH SENSE or THE SEVENTH SIGN

53 "The banks liked him. That's about it."

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*yeah she was trained in the art of machete "shenanies" alright. heehee! but not by me! by the famous dread pirate robbins. he captured her dearest Whestley! he's tricking her! aka laffite! oopsey i let out your little secret. heehee!...I'm the lucy purse handler remember? heehee! she's my weapon, and a powerful one at that. she can cast spells if you can recall. heehee!* Consarn it to heck, I am comfounded by all this subterfusionary palaver about personnages that we discussabobbled over on the P&P and my brains have verily turned to goo without even an ounce of rum. Silly me, I thought we talking about Phyllis Crane. And I didn't know that Lucy could cast spells. I thought that was Helena Belatrix. Or were you talking about the Princess Buttercup? You sure have a better memory than me. *...guess youll just have to throw me over the plank......but you better not!* First of all, fake machete expert supreme, people do not get thrown "over the plank." They _walk the plank_. So you can be rest assured that although you are suspected of absconding with the jamaican rum, Le Capitaine Laffie, who is a strict observer of swashy protocol would never, ever, ever, ever, throw you over the plank. He might throw you over the side, yes...though that is not usually the accepted form of punishment for absconders. We'll probably just make you wash dishes for a week. *Barb*, those are some tough looking SOBs you're coming up with. Le Capitaine Laffite is preparing a plundering expedition and he is recruiting for same and he may be able to use those critters. We are also trying to recover the rum that you-know-who took and we may have to do some extra conquering here and there to get it. We may even give those toughies Fancy Feast once in a while.

*I'll take the job, provided I get a daily bottle of rum to go with my Whiskas.* You're hired. Rum will be rationed in accordance with ship's policy (although we have a shortage of late as someone keeps running of with it. I won't say who) Okay on the Whiskas, but don't even think Fancy Feast. We're in a recession.

_Howdy Texanna_ *oh you're not afraid of a sweet little texan girl? * Yes, I am. (Do Texas girls pack six-guns?) And I eschew the pastime of Texas hold'em with Texas gals, even sweet ones. I'd much rather go square dancing with them. Yeah, I know, I've become dull _Hey lz_ *...and I have a sneaky feeling the old girl cheats.* Ha ha, good one...looking at this picture again, can there be any doubt? Gee, I wonder if Texas girls cheat too? laffite, who knows more about the rolling main than the rolling prairie //

*Barb Posted:* Actually we have an opening for Ship's Kitty. Can this feline use a sword? Or better yet a machete? (A real one, of course). L ..

The Blackboard Jungle nw : forty-six

*okay johhny on the spot Laffite!* Okay Babbie, to the beat *here it is, and its a doozy.* Can you tell, I'm a-gettin' woozy *tll make you laugh and i had fun with it* Easy to see that it's a hit *its not very long, but i think you find it funny. heehee!* Verily verily I am filled with glee *Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, on the spot* Laffite, laffite is in a pickle His life worth not a single nickel For here a blow and here a tickle But yes they say that fate is fickle. *Your rummy will never show up on the dot.* So true, so true, I might switch to pot Or walk the plank or sit and rot For til the Greer returns the rum Jamaican My gut will fore'er and e'er be forsaken. *Shall you fall in love with lucy van pelt* I shan?t, I shan?t, this could ne?er ne'er be, What nightmare horror from which I?d flee, What fate I can but scarce imagine I?d rather be flung deep down a dungeon. *and when you kiss her* Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! *she?ll most likely have to stand on stilts.* She can herself save all the trouble For I am gone and on the double, She can have her stilt or some such widget But in vain---for away go I from that fussbudget. // (ducking for cover, heh heh) Okay, so I know you're wondering, how can it be that the celebrated swashbuckler Jean Lafitte Laffite could possibly turn away from his fabulous exploits on the rolling main in favor of writing such "verses" as above...well, let me tell you, it helps a great deal when you're psychotic. ==

*she uses fake machetes, havent you heard?* Yes, I did hear that. And that she was trained in the art of virtuoso machete shenanegans by...let's see, who was that now...the foremost authority of fake machete use...gee, who am I trying to think of... La Capitaine ButterscotchGreer Girl Pirate Extraordinaire Fake Machete Virtuoso Supreme ====

Hi Barb Ditto on both Maria and Brenda. Both were convincing and memorable. I haven't seen any of the Tarzan movies and I probably won't. I think I want to remember Brenda as Fern Simon. I remember looking her up on IMBD and I don't think she did much. I'm a little curious about The Whispering Ghost though.