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beekaytee - Apr 27, 2008 1:04:34 pm PDT #5350 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant

Snork.

Netflix tells me that because I rented Dancing at the Blue Iguana, I will like Les Miserables.

I can, of course, see the correlation between them...uh, no?


Sue - Apr 27, 2008 1:54:47 pm PDT #5351 of 10000
hip deep in pie

Wasn't Foster's degree from Yale in French lit or soemthing like that?


quester - Apr 27, 2008 3:05:05 pm PDT #5352 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Jodie went to a French immersion grade school and did major in something French at Yale, lit or linguistics, I don't remember.


Fred Pete - Apr 28, 2008 5:56:10 am PDT #5353 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Finished The Shining over the weekend. The American Indian theory is interesting, and the author that Strega links to could also have mentioned that Dick Halloran does not die in the novel -- though he and Wendy are both injured pretty seriously. On the other hand, Ullman does emphasize in the novel that the Overlook was intended as an upper-crust luxury resort -- not in the same language as in the movie, but pretty much the same idea.

Barry Lyndon is another very pretty movie. I read Thackeray's novel (which Barry narrates in first person POV) not long before seeing the movie, and I used that to fill in a lot of the backstory that wasn't clear on the screen.

I also saw Don't Knock the Rock and Don't Knock the Twist. Two worthy for any fans of pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll, though you might want to fast-forward through the plot development parts, especially of Twist.


sumi - Apr 28, 2008 6:08:52 am PDT #5354 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Frodo Baggins a New Zealandbred thoroughbred who was in FOTR was destroyed following injuries sustained at the Rolex Three Day event. (His rider was seriously injuried.)


sumi - Apr 28, 2008 6:11:09 am PDT #5355 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

His rider blogs in happier days - with pictures


Laga - Apr 28, 2008 8:25:33 am PDT #5356 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

in today's imdb poll,

"Your favorite Humphrey Bogart/John Huston joint venture?"

I'm not familiar with any of these films

is winning. Poor uncinematically schooled peoples!


Sean K - Apr 28, 2008 8:31:24 am PDT #5357 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

"Your favorite Humphrey Bogart/John Huston joint venture?"

I'm not familiar with any of these films

Oi. Time to go vote for Treasure of the Sierra Madre.


Aims - Apr 28, 2008 8:32:29 am PDT #5358 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

African Queen.


Sean K - Apr 28, 2008 8:35:37 am PDT #5359 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I lied. I voted for "I like most/all of these films," cuz YEAH.

Maltese Falcon, African Queen, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre...

I think what surprised me was that there was more than one that I hadn't seen: Across the Pacific, In This Our Life, and Beat the Devil.

Time to see if I can find those movies, and watch them.