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Hi Frank
After that game last night I am agreeing with you and revising my opinion about the Chargers chances. As John Madden likes to continually point out, teams that peak at the end of the season can surprise regardless what went on before. And he was also right when he declared that LT "was back." I've been following all year and last night was the only game this year when LT has had a game like that. The Colts have had a strange season. Despite being 12-4, they have not dominated like in years past, strange as that may sound with that kind of record. I recall when they were 3-3 they could have easily been 1-5 but for two very improbable last-minute comebacks and they have won by the skin on their nose this year rather than by high deficit scoring. Yes, the Chargers have an excellent chance to pull one off next week. They have played well against the Colts in the playoff and the latter are probably are none to happy, I believe, to be coming here. The Chargers will have to find a way to play defense, they have had a "marshmallow" defense as well.
O those Cowboys? It's been a weird season. How does Miami make the playoffs and not the Cowboys? I haven't been close enough to know what's wrong but I'll take your word that it's the coaching. Too bad. I have heard commentators on radio suggest that it's time for Jerry Jones to back off, hire a good football man, and recede to the background. Yeah, I know, that's funny. Coaching problems have been the lament of Charger fans as well. Were it not for a weak AFC West (How does New England, 11-5 miss out, and the Chargers, 8-8, move on?), Norv might well be under the gun although AJ is like JerryJ in this respect, Norv was coming back in any case.
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Love and Anarchy
nw : peripatetic
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talkietime, thank you for all that. I have a vast collection and to what degree I might want to transfer to DVD is to be decided but at the moment I am not sure where a venture like this would lie within current priorities. There are a few that I would really like transferred though. Your remarks are informative and I'm saving your post for future reference. Thanks again.
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>Its not insulting, its classic Saturday Night Live. They been doing skits on movies since the 1970's i.e. "Jaws".
( Knock on door )
Woman: ( approaching cautiously ) "Who is It?"
Voice: ( high and squeaky, obviously put on ) "Delivery Man."
Woman: ( concerned ) "I didn't order anything."
( Pause )
Voice: ( high and squeaky ) "Delivery Man."
Woman: ( nervously ) "What do you have?. I didn't order anything, I said."
(Pause)
Voice ( high and squeaky ): "Delivery Man."
Woman: "Look, I didn't order anything and if you think
I'm going to open this door, you're crazy, now beat it."
( Pause )
Voice ( high and squeaky ): "Delivery Man."
Woman ( exasperated ) opens the door.
Woman: "AAUURRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!."
CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP
Who says a pair of jaws has to be in water.
Love it.
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*The Torture Thread Sports Line*
A short note to the eponymous one and Dallas fan extraordinaire:
How are you, *Frank*, long time no talk. Baseball season is an eternity while the football season seems to whiz by. Both the Cowboys and the Chargers must win this final week to gain the playoffs. The Charger situation is laughable. They've had a miserable year and have trailed Denver the whole season, by as many as three games at one point, yet somehow find themselves in a position to advance if they beat Denver this Sunday. Neither of these teams are playoff caliber, to be sure. If the Chargers win, unless I'm mistaken, they will be fourth seed by virtue of being a Division winner (with a 8-8 record) and will host the wild card with the best record, which will be the Colts, 12-4 if they win Sunday. What a joke! (Unless they've changed the rule, allowing the Colts to be at home by virtue of a better record). I haven't followed Dallas real closely but you don't have to what with all the controversy, haha, but it's been a bit rocky, I know that. I thought they were back to form a couple of weeks ago with that impressive win over the Giants. I didn't see the Baltimore game but was surprised they lost. They are clearly better than the Chargers and will have a much better chance of advancing if they get in. The game with the Eagles is gonna be tough. Well, good luck, my friend, I wouldn't mind seeing Dallas get in there.
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Lou Gehrig grounding into only three double plays was just too much for me to believe so I had to look it up. What I found was even more amazing. It turns out he only did it TWICE (EDIT: Oops, I see you said only two times below, ok), and if that were not enough, both times came in that last year, 1939, when we was so ill he had only 28 at bats! That means in all those years when he was healthy, from 1923-1938, he NEVER GROUNDED INTO A DOUBLE PLAY AT ALL!! That has to be one of the most remarkable sleeper stats of all time. For a lark, I looked up Mickey Mantle, another power hitter, and who, despite chronic knee problems, was a speed demon, and found that he hit into 163 DPs in his 15-year career. Whoa, Lou, you are are amazing?
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=gehrilo01
Speaking of Joe Dimaggio, he also has quite an unusual and near unbelievable stat. He hit 361 lifetime homers while striking out only 369 times. That near one-on-one ratio is strains credibility, but it's true! Most home run hitters strike out a lot, Mantle and Ruth are good examples. Contact hitters who are also long ball hitters are rare, and Dimaggio was one of them. Still, the majority of those do not have that kind of ratio. No wonder the great Dimaggio still has that 56-game hitting streak, you gotta make contact with the ball before you can hit safely.
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So how much longer will they continue to manufacture VCRs. Should I go out and buy two or three, which hopefully will last while I still breathe, so I can still watch tapes that I still have (which is quite a few.)
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Daly's sometimes lengthy and sometimes tortured explanations on why or why not a question should or should not be allowed was just another thing to enjoy on this show.
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...and she practically caused a scandal with her "Let's Do It." No one was as earthy and Eartha. Adieu, we'll still be listening.
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*"Yeah, the bike has a flat, I'll fix it later. Right now I want to brush up on my CPR."*
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*I will not answer you...not because I don't want to, but because I don't want to get in trouble!*
I think you are exercising excellent judgment here (who says the young are not wise!). We don't want the Madame to make you sit in the corner.
Not that I am any better. When I was in the Fifth grade my teacher was so exasperated with me she said, "I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING DRASTIC WITH YOU!" This is no big deal nowadays but realize that this was a time when Fifth graders were still afraid of their teachers. I don't remember what she did but I must have survived, much to the chagrin of everyone who has ever known me.
Okay, no more OT, Madame Maven, Maitresse d'Ecole extraordinaire, je vous le promis...
Continuons!
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Actually I AM Michael Parks. But don't tell anyone please. Otherwise people will keep thinking I'm Charles Bronson. I tell you, I can't even walk into a coffee shop anymore.
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I can't get youtube but I remember seeing Carol Channing on WML and was on the floor laughing. See if you can find it. She was hilarious when she disguised her voice in the lower registers, then she decided to go high. Oh, Carol, why did you do that? You had them on the run.
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*I was thinking how amazing Tyrone would have been in the Ameche role.*
Boy, could I take than one apart, whoa! Tyrone playing that role, ho ho?
But...
...Our Maven Extraordinaire has expressly decreed that all such OT discussions are verboten so my brilliant analysis will just have to wait.
Okay, okay, CineM, I'm leaving, I'm leaving...now where's the principal's office again?
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They should have consulted ME. One day on 1985 I was sitting in a coffee shop in Columbus Circle and was taken for CharlesB by three young fellers across the way. They were so excited. One of them finally came over and stopped short seeing that I was no such person. My 15 minutes of fame concluded at that moment. But at least I knew then why people used to get nervous when they saw me on the subway, heh heh.
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*I love Russian literature--so passionate, and romantic, yet philosophical and funny, too. They have such a unique outlook on life.*
Hello there, *Sandykaypax!* Ditto on that Russian literature
Raskolnikov!
Played by a great actor. Here is another BBC production that I enjoyed a lot. I don?t think I?ve ever seen John Hurt in a bad performance. He?s a little old for this character but it?s a minor quibble, so good is he. This is a faithful adaptation and is held together by several key and longish scenes in the book. In Episode one (there are three episodes in all, each about 70 minutes long) there is one that last a full 15 minutes that almost kills the story and patience may be required to get through it (but please do so). It takes place though in a wonderfully realized, dark, and seedy, interior of an ale house. I found it quite like it must have been back then in 19c Russia. The street scenes teeming with people were convincing. John Hurt has considerable range as an actor and easily handles the emotional tumult of a Raskolnikov.
This guy ain?t bad either. I ask you, look at this face. Is this an interesting looking face, orwhat? He looks like he?s played a few Lucifers in his time. He plays one here too?well, sort of. This is Timothy West who plays the Police Inspector Profiry. If you remember the book, Profiry plays a verbal cat-and-mouse game with Raskolnikov which is virtuoso in the writing and brilliantly realized by West, devilish looks and all. The scenes with Hurt and West are worth the price of admission alone,though there is so much else to watch. Watching this I kept looking at West trying to place him. He, like so many others in these BBC productions, have spent their careers almost exclusively in British Television. If he looks familiar to you too, just add 30 years to that face and you?ll see Sir Leicester Dedlock, the old husband of Gillian Anderson?s Lady Dedlock in the 2005 version of Bleak House. Same guy. There are a number of interesting characters in the story, all so well played by a host of fine actors, again not always famaliar but uniformly excellent. Such is the BBC.
Sonya and Rasky
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*Is that all you can say?*
*I think hanging around with the Coop girls has been getting to you.*
I might be better off somehow if I DID hang out with the Coop girls, but I don?t (except for one of them who also happens to be a Smithy girl and a Darcy girl) though in another way I?m better off NOT hanging out with the Coop girls since I think that Gary is rather awkward and somewhat of a goofball while Tyrone is just plain dull at times though he can snap out of it on occasion (don?t tell Butterscotchgreer I said that about Gary because not only is she a Smithy girl and a Darcy girl but I?m led to believe that she is, hopelessly, a Coop girl as well
). Of course Gary and Tyrone are IMMENSELY popular around here which might give you a clue of how much Laffite knows, i.e., fort peu de chose, which is French for not a whole lot. But I do know and I don?t want to give anything away that Tyrone is not helped in The Rains Came because he is asked to play a rather dull character. Fortunately for him something happens to his character (in the form of a certain Myrna) that forces him to break out of his dullness and actually be not dull for a change, which is another way of saying that he becomes quite good at the end of this picture. So there is hope for him at least though I?m not sure the same can be said for Gary (who I shamelessly imitated in my previous response to you) though this notion is belied by his gazillion fans, much to my chagrin.If it?s possible, IRLM, that you have not as yet noticed Tyrone?s dullness, it is probably because you are a girl and have been swept away by his winning good looks.
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*He was so sympathetic as the "real" Emperor, trapped in a situation of his own making..... and I loved the relationship he formed with the woman who took him into her home. I was a little disappointed in the ending, but really, I don't know what I was expecting! Napoleon gets his empire back and everybody believes him and he and his lady live together in splendor happily ever after?*
Hmm, I must be experiencing a meltdown? Being unflappable is no guarantee of a good memory. Does it really end like that? I recollect that the only empire he got back was the one on the smaller scale, a loving woman and a loving home, and which gives the irony that he ends up happier than if he were the Emperor. Well, if it didn't end like that, it should have.
Actually, I can't remember the ending in its details, but I thought it ended generally in that vein. Oh well, back to piracy (and unflappability, haha). ps, don't ask me my name, I probably won't remember it. -
*Excuse me? "Mr. Bland"?*
Yep.
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*Holm's got it all- but most of all, as you said, it's the eyes. They live, they are so expressive with just a flicker of movement. I enjoy him most for surprising me. He is bold when most actors are calm, calm when most actors would be seething. He'll smile, suddenly, shocking you into liking him! He is hard to grasp hold of, because his technique is so obviously there, but it is not visible. Vocally, physically, he can change completely, but the humanity underlying it all, the thought, the feeling - it's all there. But the best thing about him is that he chooses such interesting work to do. I like him best when he carries a picture, your eye just goes to him anyway, because he is so alive so human at all times.....*
Gosh, what a fine paragraph! I think you've nailed him!
Have you seen The Emperor's New Clothes. Very funny and a fine riff on the old joke about thinking you're Napolean and what may happen if you persist with it---even if you _really are_ Napolean. As you can see, he looks the part. Also, have you seen by chance Dreamchild (1983), in which he plays Lewis Carroll. If you haven't seen this yet, you probably can nevertheless envision him the role, the shy and stuttering author and teacher with a fondness for a certain Alice. Alice Liddell is elderly when the movie begins. She's visiting New York in 1929 to great fanfare. She has childhood flashbacks in which we get to see Ian. There are some marvelous sequences using costumed animation of Alice in Wonderland characters based on the original illustrations. This movie doesn't get talked about much, it seems a sleeper, but it should be seen by any Holm fan, and especially by one who writes about him like you do.
*cool yet unstable demeanor*
That fits Charlotte to a tee. And it works for me as well in The Cherry Orchard. It's interesting to note that she and Bates were madcap lovers in Georgie Girl 40 years prior.
*Are you an actor, Laffite?*
No, but you'll be sorry you asked anyway. Like many who like the theater I did a little dabbling. My debut (haha
) was a 45-minute comedy, an original play where I played a character named Fred C Bloggs. Yep, it was a takeoff on Bogie film but thankfully I didn't have to try and be him. The play was written just prior to the Internet Age and has nothing to do with blogging.) The reviewer wrote that I was a "likeable actor with unflappable concentration," no doubt due to some chaos on stage where I had to do some ad libbing, something that is not so hard to do when your scared crapless (it was opening night of my first play and being scared crapless is a great help to get you through). I still secretly carry that "inflappable" around with me. It's a joke with friends. If someone criticizes me I say nothing and play the unflappable card. I have a reputation to uphold ) In a docudrama about The Bomb I was cast as the nuclear physicist Hans Bethe, not because I looked like a genius but because I resembled the man (No offense, Hans). There were two other plays where reviewers stated that the acting was "uneven" and I am forever grateful that they didn't elaborate. I think the word "uneven" is a good word for me. So much for the mercifully short and dubious acting career of laffite who prefers to plunder the high seas for easy booty and rum-swilling fun.Message was edited by: laffite
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*So did anyone like my suggestion of The Rains Came ? So far nobody seems to like it
*I like it. A movie in which Mryna gets to call George a ...
,,,windbag. And it's very funny too. You can see ole George (that rake Ransome) doesn't think too much of it. This is a fine movie. It's available on Netflix, A nice surprise is Brenda Joyce, the other half of a seemingly unlikely couple (she'll be sorry
---not a spoiler). As far as Tyrone is concerned...well, he's Tyrone. He's Mr Bland but gets better. ILRM, I would post a Tyrone for you, but I don't have a good one.Here's a good one of Miss Joyce though.
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*And indeed Peggy Ashcroft was phenomenal. She was so good, that she almost tipped the delicate balance that the cast had. The thing that I liked the most was that there was virtually no weak link- the entire cast was equally great.*
It?s not possible to say enough about Peggy. She is so convincing that I thought on a couple of occasions that I had never seen such acting like this ever before. Her scenes with Petya (Holm) were especially good. For some reason, the great JohnG was vaguely disappointing, but only vaguely. I think those goofy things, like the all-too-earnest speech to the chest of drawers and a couple of other instances like that could have been punched a little more. But he is perfectly cast and carries the role well. Judy Dench is such a pleasure here. Dorothy Tutin was quite good as Varya though not stellar. There were some iffy moments in some places. She plays Varya, who is the step-daughter of Ranevskaya and therefore occupies a prominent place in the household and has apparently taken over as headmistress, in charge of housekeeping, etc. Any actress who plays Vayra must, in my opinion, be careful not to overplay it and descend into fussbudgetism (you knew I would work this in somewhere, didn?t you, Jackie
) The actress who plays this on the Side B does just this and I think it is a detriment to the character. There is a sweet side of Dorothy?s take on the role that comes out and makes her more sympathetic. Yes, she can be cranky, especially with poor Ephidov, for whom she holds a special antipathy, but there is a sweet and charming side in Dorthy?s Varya that sets up that last rather sad scene with Lopahin and renders it more poignant IMO. *It was like watching an orchestra, each player in tune with one another and each instrument played perfectly. Every character had their moment. And though each one was so very serious in his/her plight, I felt the thinnest veneer of ... I don't know what. Maybe ridicule? That's the wrong word, because there was no malice towards the characters. Maybe folly is a better word. They were all so laughably deluded.....it made me want to cry and laugh at the same time.*
Merriam-Webster defines ?Chekhovian? as ?inability to communicate with each other.? That certainly is true about these characters but it?s more than that, it seems to me, and being deluded, as you point out, is certainly the more of it. Jackie, will you please write Merriam-Webster and correct them. Remember ole Lee Marvin in ?The Ice Man Cometh,? the pipe dream buster. We should inject ole Lee in one of these plays and see if he can straighten these people out.
There is also the wistfulness, the unhappiness, the sudden bursts of joy that somehow doesn?t seem quite real and that ends as quickly as it began, and the inevitable quintessentially Chekhovian scene where after a departure, someone says forlornly, ?They?re gone,? or ?He?s gone,? and this dark aura hangs over all. *I am sure you know and understand this play far better than I ever could....*
Oh, Jackie, you are always so lavish in your praise of others when you yourself are such a gem. I quite find your takes on movies deeper than I can go. Your personal impressions are vivid and perspicacious. I sometimes have to work hard to feel something about a movie. And there is a genuineness and elegance to your writing that is as natural as can be, all the more impressive. Anyone reading this who reads you will know exactly what I?m talking about.
*I did not watch the version on the "B" side, though I did get it from Netflix. I am ashamed to say that I skipped watching it so I could get the movie back quickly. However, there is a possibility that I might be able to watch it anyway- but I don't want to go into any incriminating details here.
*Uh-oh. Well, if you do something wrong and get locked up please let me know your cell block number and I?ll send you a legal copy of my recommendation below.
*I am curious about the Alan Bates/Charlotte Rampling version.*
Left to right, *Lopahin*, *Madame Raneskaya*, and *Gayev*. If Lopahin looks a little irritated it?s because he cannot convince the two numbskulls to the right to sell the damn Cherry Orchard.
Charlotte Rampling acting is kind of weird in this movie, but it works. She herself does not emote so very much but she gives the impression that her character does. I don?t know how she does that but it must be a sign of good acting. There is a sort of restraint on one level but be she?s perfectly believable as someone who nears the edge at times, the hand-wringing, nervous type that is evident in Peggy, though not so much in Judi Dench?s turn as Raneskaya in the Side B of Orchard that you didn?t see. Judi has some emotionally rocky moments but for a large part she seems in control, a different take. I like Charlotte a lot here. Alan Bates is not as goofy in some respects as other Gayev?s. He seems more with it somehow. In fact, they cut out the scene when he talks to the dresser drawers and this other similar incident, when he gets maudlin with syrupy somewhat absurd speeches to inanimate objects, then trails off while everyone else rolls their eyes thinking, they?re he goes again. But he is still so good. There are a couple of scenes, one in particular when he muses on how to get money to retain the orchard and says something about his sister (Raneskaya) that the daughter overhears. So good here I had to play the scene a number of times. But he retains the refrain, ?red off the bank in the corner pocket,? and does some seemingly impromptu business with the pool cue during a conversation with Lopahin that is quite good. The guy who does Lopahin does a fine job. The one character I would play if I could would be the impoverished landowner, Pischik, who is always borrowing money. In this movie, I love his last scene when he comes in and pays some debts. The actor here is so dead on perfect here I wisht for a brief absurd moment that I was him so I can claim that role on my resume. (Why do I find all this so fascinating!) I think you?ll enjoy this so keep it in mind, or better yet insert it in you queue so will see the title from time to time.
Our poor, dear, and tragic Madame?
*And now, I am extremely curious to hear what your next recommendation is.....*
Anthony Hopkins and Ian Holm both play Dr Astrov in Chekhov?s Uncle Vanya---another double feature available on Netflix, versions from 1970 (Hopkins) and 1990 (Holm). Look at the difference in their ages. Hopkins was 34 and Holm was 60! Both do a splendid job. At one point Elena refers to Astrov as being about 37 or 38, so Hopkins is the closest. The 1990 version was either translated or paraphrased by David Mamet, something he liked to do to modernize the dialogue. Still, the changes don?t seem that obvious to me and the play comes off very Chekhovian, thanks for that. There is also the feeling that actors were instructed to act more in the modern vein than say a classic, traditional Chekhov production (and I think the casting reflects this as well).
This is Freddy Jones, who plays Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya) in the earlier version (Hopkins). So who the hell is Freddy Jones? Well, perhaps you know him but I didn?t. Most of the actors in these productions were totally unknown to me (except the obvious exceptions). A look on IMBD reveals that these actors have devoted practically their entire careers to British television and therefore unknown to us. Oh, and how good they are. Mr Jones does a Vanya that elicits the same admiration in me as for Ashcroft in Orchard. He captures the character perfectly. I played some of the scenes over and over. I see from imbd that he has been criticizised for his quirky, cartoonish performances (he is still going strong today) but here he is dead on. He has a soliloquy that he does so well that I just don?t know what to say about it, except that it has to be seen. He (Vanya) does things on the one hand with such humor (his rapprochements and entreaties to Elena) and at other times with such despair. And he really gets quite serious about things in that famous last scene, wow!
Also from the earlier version (all the pictures you see here are from the 1970 version), here is another ?unknown?, the actress Ann Bell. I don?t how I know this but if Chekhov could rise from the mire and feast his eyes on this lovely actress he would say, ?Oh, my perfect Elena.? She plays the beautiful wife of the old professor. She glides around with this elegant air but inside she is unhappy and quite genuine with others. Such elegance, such beauty, no wonder everyone?s in love with her. She can act too. In the flip-side version from 1990, this role is played by a younger much more mod actress. She is okay in the role but she doesn?t move me that much.
Her are Uncle Vanya and Dr Astrov early on ruminating in that typical Chekhovian way. They are both in love with Elena by the way. I like Hopkins a lot but there has always seemed to me a certain discomfort or defensive way of acting that keeps him from being truly great. He does a little of that here but I give him enormous credit nonetheless for his Astrov. (He played Andrei in Three Sisters and I though he was lacking somewhat). He has some truly remarkable scenes. In one of them, he kisses Elena rather passionately and does it so well, a scene fairly rippling with electricity. Not often such display in Chekhov. (I have to interject something here. Later in the play Vanya reproaches Astrov, "I saw you kiss her," and Hopkins as Astrov retorts, "It's more than you'll ever do," and brings his hand to his nose and then wags his fingers as we see nowadays as a contemptuous and snarky gesture by young people. I was so totally aghast when I saw that, it was almost as if Hopkins forgot what to do and made this gesture instinctively in desperation. I can't tell you how inappropriate I thought that was, so much so that I laughed in a way that I'm sure the production would not want me to. How could they leave that in? When you see this, Jackie, I want your take. What an anachronism!) Holm is so much fun to watch, I can?t say enough. He does a couple of things that are brave in their understatement. He plays a couple of normally hammy scenes rather straight. This could be the influence of Mamet. He hammers home with the cynicism and is so believable. Watch the eyes, the eye brows, the facial expressions, the man is a genius. The actress who plays Sonia (Vanya?s sister) is another unknown to me, Susan Armitage, who gives such a sensitive performance that I am almost drawn to tears. She is a Plain Jane who loves Astrov and there is a scene where she tries to tell him that (but it goes over his head). Her character is dull at times but the performance is tops.
I hope you get this sometime. If you do, please watch the 1970 version first! I think this is the better of the two. This way if you don?t get to watch all of the flip side, you will have seen the best one IMO. If you don?t think you want to watch the second one---and let?s face it, as good as these productions are, it is not easy to sit through the play twice in such a short frame of time---you can at least spot check a few scenes, especially the ones with Ian Holm. A comparison of Holm and Hopkins is a worthy endeavor.
Oh, forgive me for this all too long post, but I wanted it to be all together. Thanks too for your queries about my sabbaticals from here, that is much appreciated. I am doing quite well, thank you.
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That couldn't be me. First of all, he's not as good looking as I am. And secondly, I don't go out with girls who are older than 112. That's my limit, although she looks pretty good for 403. Come to think of it, I might check out a few books with her. Or did Librarian3 have anything to do with books? As usual, out-of-the-mainstream laffite doesn't know what the hip Butterscotch is talking about. I don't care for vampire movies although I am a little partial to vamps. Of course they didn't mention Lucy Van Pelt. They didn't want to ruin the whole movie.
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*hey johnny on the spot!*
Hey greergirl extrraordinaire
*cute smiley! i love it!*
Glad you loved it.
*well you know, my junior moments must be coming from all those fake machete fights. im all tuckered out....i be helen and greer will come help me! ill have less junior moments then. heehee!*
Uh, helen and greer are busy. You?ll just have to fend for yourself?junior moments and all.
*i never underthink! what is this thou is accusing moi of?!
*Underthinking can be a good thing. It means that in some cases simplicity rules. The cessation of overthinking opens a new door.
*yup, during the series, they constantly talk about Sicily, especially Sophia, Dorothy's Ma, before they came to Brooklyn. they always joke about silly things that make me laugh so hard! actually, i think in one episode Sophia pretended she was the "Godfather" or godmother if you will. that was a cute one! i could definitely see Bea Arthur doing that. how funny!*
Ohhh, that?s Dorothy. She was a golden girl. Laffite?s been to sea too much. Don?t even know the Golden Girls. Maybe we should get cable installed aboard ship. That we can drink rummy and watch all those senior moments on the GG.
*I have tickets for Rigoletto coming up in Apri*
*wow! fancy!....maybe this a bad time to mention how early in advance i got my tickets to go see Carol Burnett when she comes to Austin. heehee!.....dont worry i seem to feel a junior moment coming on.*
Maybe they have pills for junior moments. Have you thought of seeing your doctor? When is Carol going down to Austin?
*actually there was this one time where i was in one of my team leagues and we were in a big competition and on the last game we were tied with another team unless i rolled 3 strikes on my last frame and i did it, and my team mates and i were so excited and we were jumping up and down and there was always this one grouchy man sitting in the bowling alley behind all of us, and he would always watch us do everything and he finally stood up and shouted, "KEEP IT DOWN YOU LOUSY KIDS!!" it was so funny, but i was so scarred by his voice, that i had this shocking look on my face and my coach went up to him and said, "will you be quiet and let the kids have a fun time, you grouch?!" then she turned back to us and said, "carry on darlings".....it was a rather humorous moment.*
Wow, what a hero you are? Three strikes in a row! And to win the match too! That makes up for all those junior moments. Why did your coach call you all ?darlings.? Is that the name of the team. Gee, I can?t think of any other reason she might call you that.
*maybe that grouch and Harriet should get together and take lucy along for kicks. heehee!*
Oh, what a gruesome threesome that would make. Maybe they?ll go to Sicily and get rubbed out. I don?t think they should be allowed to go into bowling alleys though?especially when the Darlings are playing.
*I?ll check with my sources in Hollywood. Would you like to play the title role or should we get someone to play you? What young actress could play you, do you think?*
*i doubt very dubiously that anyone would like to play me silly.*
Why not, silly? You made three strikes in a row, you ace math tests, you are a greergirl extraordinaire, your car gets broken into, you have a valiant history with a fake machete, and last but not least, you have an I love lucy purse. Why, this is the stuff of great biopics. Who can we get to play you?
*A strong girl pirate? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Oh, excuse me, ahem, you mean there?s such at thing as that.*
*i already proved it so there! you cant trip me up with your vicious words. heehee!*
How did you prove it? You?ll have to prove it again. When I am deprived of my rummy that you hid I have middlin moments and don?t remember a thing.
*I think you should take your fake machete to Guess. You can wave it menacingly in the air. They?ll give you three or four just to get rid of you.*
*what kind of a female pirate do you take me for? im an innocent one*
Honestly, greery, I think you should go in the joke writing business.
*who only uses her fake machete for good not evil*
My foot! Take Laffite?s rummy, for instance?which is what you did. Do you think that?s good, for heaven?s sake. Why don?t you be a good greery and give it back so I can get soused and watch the golden girls.
*when certain dirty piarets want to dance around a camp fire with their rummy!*
How can I dance around the campfire with my rummy when you took it.
*actually i think she had a machete in the movie on the island when she was cutting down grass and vines, but who's looking anyway.*
I?m looking
Well, it was probably a fake machete, what else can you expect from a girl.*heehee! oh were not that bad, just because im clumsy, doesnt make every other girl clumsy! goodness!*
Well, you?re not too clumsy, you bowled three strikes in a row. If you were clumsy, you have thrown at least one gutter ball. Have you ever thrown a gutter ball?
*Oh scotcho, oh scotcho, the rum stealer supreme*
*Once again up to her wiley ways*
*No consequences will laffite take*
*For difficult to find will he it make,*
*The Wiley One shall seek all the days*
*But for to find will be but a forlorn hope and dream*
*johnny on the spot stole the rummy*
*so it tickled his tummy*
*if only if only he hadnt taken one sip to many*
*he'll be gone it he isnt careful*
*johnny oh johnny i promise ill hide the fake machete*
*if youll only stop blaming me for your halucinations.*
*....heehee!*
No tummy does laffite?s rummy tickle
For the hand of fate so fickle
As it is, the joy of spirits supreme is denied
Wandering the land far and wide
His rum to find, oh what a pickle
To be bereft, no rum or wine to imbibe.
Yes, the Wiley One is to blame
What need to hallucinate
If wine and rum were here to sate
Those who would run around fire?s flame.
*i just quote the best, which lizzy happens to be prodigiously so. just because lizzy can beat mr. darcy with a bow and arrow doesnt mean she's butterscotchin' him up. she's being herself, i mean if she let him win, he would be accustomed to being spoiled even around his true love, and as Lady Catherine DeBourgh says, "she right for you darcy, you need someone who wont be afraid to stand up to you...i think you've found her." she's quite right you know! otherwise, who else would stand up to Darcy?*
But she should be clever enough to let him win without him knowing. You know how you girls are. You?re very good at rank deception and can wrap the likes of a Darcy around your pinkies just like that. And Lady Catharine DeBourgh should know that Darcy doesn?t want a girl who stands up to him. He wants a girl that will grovel at his feet. He would have much better off marrying one of Lizzie?s wimpy little sisters. Then he could be King of the Hill. And if Mr and Mrs Bennet can?t find a husband for Lizzie, they could drown her, just like they said they should have done.
*It?s cause I want you to make an historical speech (not hysterical) that will be quoted extensively by everybody in the whole world for all time. That?s not asking too much, is it?*
*oh gee, let me think.....*
Are you underthinking or overthinking?
*well i dont think Lucy Van Pelt would succomb to anyone or anything, that is unless Shroeder finally declares his love for her so she can melt in his arms and she wont shout LIKE THIS! anymore....its all for the better, if Shroeder and her get together, she wont be so annoying hopefully anymore.*
Uh, I don?t think so. To all of that. I think you?ve been watching too many Smithy movies.
*Here, take my handkerchief.*
*dont ever lend me your hanky unless you want it wet when i give it back to you. every hanky frankie has lent me, i have used to much when watching my Paula and Smithy, that it never dried b/c i cry so much. heehee!*
Well, me and ?Frankie? are tired having you ruin all our hankies. If I were your life coach I would order you to watch RH once a week instead of every other day. After all we?re tired all havin? all our hankies ruined ?cause some greergirl keeps mushin? im up with all that sappy crying. Geez, hankies don?t grow on trees, and we?re in a tough economy.
*didnt you know that it was a magical cottage and they made it just appear there for them, b/c its a happily ever after sort of thing...*
I know it only too well.
*well until disatster strikes then, but that doesnt come yet!*
Oh, there?s gonna be a sequel? And there?s going to be a disaster. Well, maybe finally it?ll get interesting.
*lucy van pelt will never grabe their special little cottage away from them! why the thought of that happening is treachorous!*
As well as horribobble. Well, they can always go sit under a tree where he can ask her to marry him. Even though he doesn?t know who he is.
*i dont think we have another speech to give though, next week is the last week of the semester and i got a really good grade on my other speech*
Well, will it go down as one of the great orations of our time. I mean that?s fine if it was good but what I want to know is will it go down as one of the great orations of all time. Anybody can get a B- on a speech but will the children of the 24th century have to recite it in school. Will they have to memorize it till their sick to the death of it because it?s so gald dang good, that?s what I want to know.
*my bowling? i have been in lots of leagues with teams and some by myself. i liked it best with my team though, b/c it was more fun that way. my best team was called A Lady and the Gentz, b/c i was the only girl on the team.*
Well, that?s a cute name for a team but just for the record I would never be on a team if there was a girl on it. Even though she did bowl a 210 and I only can bowl 149. I could have bowled a 210 too but I just didn?t want to.
*we won first place in the league that year. my highest game was a 210, by sheer luck and chance. but i usually bowl a straight throw, and you have better chances of getting strikes with a curve so im gradually trying to place a hook in my throw and it isnt easy. oy! but its fun.*
No, I think you deserved that 210. 210s are not luck and chance. You must be very good (for a girl.) Good luck on your hook. Most girls throw straight balls because, you know, they?re girls, but other more advanced girls (there are only a few) can develop curves (although many have them already) but I think that you will succeed because any girl who can bowl a 210 has a certain control that you need to throw a good hook.
*where did you go on this fantastic journey? Madagascar? ooh where? did you bring back any treasure? i bet you didnt find the rummy yet.*
To heck and back, dodgin? slings and arrows of that proverbial and outrageous fortune. Oh yes, much treasure, which I?ve tradin? in for enough doubloons to afford cable ?cause I want to watch the golden girls and reruns of RH. Also, I want to subscribe to the Bowling Channel.
*adieu johnny on the spot!*
adieu Miss Three in a Row
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*Frank*, good points all. Just one comment. AJ has given Norv the proverbial vote of confidence and that was when the Chargers were 4-8. We have an excellent sports writer here in San Diego who wrote a column citing examples of vote of confidence coaches who were nevertheless canned shortly thereafter. He almost made it sound as if the VOC was a kind of curse, haha. But I think the strong finish and making the playoffs cements Norv's future (for another year at least) though, in a way, masks a certain mediocrity. The C are back from the dead and it's a near miracle just to get this far and Norv will get credit for that regardless what happens with the Colts, IMO. Besides, AJ loves him (to the chagrin of many C fans).
Well, anyway, I hope you'll be watching and enjoying the playoffs...despite the proceedings being sans Cowboys.