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Well, you've read the notes, you know what day of the week it is, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're having a month of Moo-ndays.
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And the word of the day is: MERITOCRACY!
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I had a nice visit with Mr. Matt Ashford last night - he's busy rehearsing for Urinetown now, which I suppose I'll go see when it opens.
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TOTD:
Hope and Glory
Yanks
For A Lost Soldier
From Here To Eternity
Above Us The Waves
Das Boot
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TOD - I love THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, too. And SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. STALAG 17. THE GREAT ESCAPE. And so many others.
I re-watched many many WW II movies before writing my last TV-movie - which is about a family in small-town America during the war - mainly from a child's POV. It'll be aired in November. It was great fun writing it -- I've always wanted to write a 40's style film.
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And the word of the day is: MERITOCRACY!
Disgusted with all of the elected leaders in town, we decided to go for A COMIC RETRY and establish a MERITOCRACY based on who had the grooviest motor vehicle. MY EROTIC CAR came in third, probably because the airbrushed beefcake on the hood was a little too explicit for some of the voters.
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Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
Bridge on the River Kwai
a major story thread in Slaughterhouse Five
(Never have been much of a battle fan)
And, for the Gregory Peck fans out there, let's not forget Twelve O'Clock High
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Der Grampa is off to the Eastern Shore, to take care of the grandlads. When they saw him drive away, the dogs all howled from being abandoned. I had to shout "Hey, I'm still here!" to get them to stop.
Odds are, they won't howl when I go to work. I think it's a car thing, and I walk.
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Good morning, all! Today, I am frustrated by my two office colleagues' absence, tardy payment by the Institute in California, too-prolonged negotiation with my accountant over taxes, and too many places to travel today. But mostly, I'm troubled by late summer doldrums and failure of people to respond to emails, phone calls, etc. over the past week
Now that I've established this air of discontent, I shall go, ponderng the queston of World War II movies, of which the only one I can think of is CATCH-22. I thought the book was brilliant, comic and moving. I wish the movie were.
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Hi all. I owe a very late but most sincere Happy Birthday to Dear TCB. I thought your birthday was today!
My boss is out of the office on a medical leave for the next 6-8 weeks.. Nothing like a little extra pressure.
As for WWII films, I'm not sure if it is even set in WWII but I love Errol Flynn's Uncertain Glory.
Morning, Elmore and Donna! How do you like riding the bus with me?
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Well, I missed Donna. Sigh. By the time I catch up on reading the posts, I'm almost to my stop and don't have time to post myself.
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Good morning, Danise and Elmore!
But I must be going. :P :(
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HI and BYE as well, S. Woody White! I like the new picutre.
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Work is a four letter word. ;)
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Have a GREAT day everyone!
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I liked the Great Escape but until the recent DVD release I didn't know how fictional the story really was. As a film entertainment it is great; as a representation of what really happened it's not.
I like to add Bridge on the RIver Kwai (The actual bridge was not blown up as depicted in the film)
DAS BOAT
And surprisingly I can't remember if I have ever watch the entire film of The Best Years of Our Lives. I am sure I have but can't remember when.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO MY AVITAR???
IT'S BACK!!
It's there.
Then it isn't.
Then it's there.
People must think I'm nuts
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Like to add
CASABLANCA
and
Holocaust (TV Mini Series)
Caine Mutiny
Mr. Roberts
South Pacific (except for those awful filters and some poor casting choices)
Empire of the Sun
The Guns of Navarone
Cabaret (was this during WW2?)
Kelly's Herioes
What Did You Do In The War Daddy?
Operation Petticoat
Patton
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WWII MOVIES
The Best Years of Our Lives
Since You Went Away
A Foreign Affair
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Schindler's List
Tomorrow, the World!
Empire of the Sun
Captain Newman, MD
Judgment at Nuremberg
Over 21
I Was a Male War Bride
TV mini-series:
Pearl (1978)
From Here to Eternity (1980)
Winds of War (1983) / War and Remembrance (1988)
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The worst WWII film.
Illsa, The She-Wolf of the SS
(don't ask)
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Ah yes, Michael ... I would add to my list --
Operation Petticoat
Mr. Roberts
Cabaret
South Pacific
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Good morning!
Cooler this morning than I was expecting and not as humid either. I'm sure that won't last long.
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Sorry to have been E&T last night. Around 10 p.m., I just couldn't keep my eyes open, and I went to bed and slept 8 hours, the longest sleep I've had in weeks.
I was watching THIS ISLAND EARTH when exhaustion overtook me. Perhaps I was just tired, but I didn't find the first hour of it holding my attention as I expected it to. I'll finish it earlt this afternoon before putting in something else.
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THIS ISLAND EARTH has been given a full screen transfer by Universal in this remastering (I suspect the film was matted in theaters when it was shown). The stock footage used in the movie looks terrible, of course, but the real live action scenes look sharp, clear, and Technicolorful. Mono sound is fine.
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Began my evening last night with another WILD WILD WEST episode. In it, Arthur O'Connell played a warden in a state prison trying to steal the money of a man condemned to die. Roald Dahl was in this episode, too, playing the executioner.
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And the BONES season finale repeat featured the moving reconciliation of Temperence with her brother. Lots of surprises and revelations in the episode which set up a neat cliffhanger. Can't wait for the new season to begin next week.
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I'm a big fan of British WWII drama. Have never been one for combat scenes--I'm interested in how people coped.
WE'LL MEET AGAIN (TV)
WISH ME LUCK (TV)
ENEMY AT THE DOOR (TV)
Plus, PBS did a fascinating documentary called NAZI PRISON ESCAPE, which covers much of the same material as THE GREAT ESCAPE.
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I will be watching DOUBLE INDEMNITY this afternoon once I finish THIS ISLAND EARTH.
There are two discs in the DI set, so I may also watch the special features as well.
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Favorite WWII film would have to be CASABLANCA. I admire THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES very much as well. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, SCHINDLER'S LIST, and CONSPIRACY are three more recent war films I really admired.
Many others previously mentioned including STALAG 17 and THE GREAT ESCAPE are also favorites.
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Michael S: have you seen the NAZI PRISON ESCAPE documentary? I had assumed that that material was accurate. Any insight into this?
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DR George, my friend Jeff got his mini-frig at Target, too, but he said he has seen similar models at Home Depot if that's any help.
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BK, ditto for me on BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. BEST WWII and on my top ten list as well.
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Since I was on-line earlier than usual this morning, I'm finished earlier than usual, too. Going to read a bit and then on the TV and lunch preparation.
WBBL.
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Good day one and all.....
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bk, I was just reading through the play, Urinetown, and Matt's role is Senator Fipp...
Interesting play...
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Last night's PROJECT RUNWAY:
SPOILER
What a STRANGE show!
The previews -- TOTALLY misleading.
Poor Jeffrey...and I mean that sincerely. To be stuck with Angela's mother...who looked like nothing other than a big blackberry in her personal attire.
So...the challenge. Feh.
I was most impressed with Jeffrey's mother! A very classy lady. Ditto Uli's mother and Robert's sister.
All the hoo-haw over color choice between Angela's mom and Jeffrey was simply over-the-top. I blame Tim Gunn...NO WAY should he ever have solicited input from the mother about the fabric without Jeffrey being there. It was sabotage, IMO. Jeffrey's choices were his choices...any difference of opinion over them should have been between him and the mother with his sense of taste being the deciding factor.
Count me among the 30% who supported Jeffrey.
As for the dress, it wasn't pretty. But it was fitted well. With all that Jeffrey had to put up with, his heart could not have been in it.
AND...did I hear the judges task another designer for NOT using his own judgment over pleasing the client? I think so.
Interesting that Michael Kors referred to the Jeffrey/Angela's mom issue as a "miscommunication."
Dark purple and dark green as her favorite colors, indeed. The periwinkle looked great against the purple fabric Jeffrey selected. As for the dress looking "matronly," If this woman doesn't want to look matronly, who the hell dresses her in her street clothes?
And to ask Angela how she thought her mom looked was beneath contempt. Yes, Jeffrey can be boorish, but he was put on the defensive from the start...and the mother adopted a "victim" approach that reminds me SO much of Angela at her worst that I wanted to slap her.
Robert WAS boring. Oh my gosh, but he was boring.
Back to the Barbies, Robert!
No plus-size worries with the Barbster!
I thought Uli's outfit and Michael's outfit were the best.
As for the winner -- I dunno. I thought it looked awful. I didn't think it was flattering...the entire front of the dress was all stressed/crumpled...no smoothness to it.
The oversized collar -- that indefinable Vincent trademark of overstatement in some element -- looked cartoonish to me.
I was disappointed in the episode and the outcome.
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Oh...ummmm...."Good Morning, Everyone!"
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What's a "mini-frig"?
Is that...like...what we used to call "a quickie?"
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I was watching THIS ISLAND EARTH when exhaustion overtook me. Perhaps I was just tired, but I didn't find the first hour of it holding my attention as I expected it to. I'll finish it earlt this afternoon before putting in something else.
Why...why....that's the most important part! If you don't get down with the specifications of the "interocitor", the rest of the film might as well be rocket science!
:D
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TOTD:
BEst Years of our LIves -- excellent film, I saw it this past weekend!
Americanization of Emily
Casablanca
From Here to Eternity
Those are the ones I can think of off hand...
STalag 17 I remember seeing one time in a class.
I have also seen a number of documentaries including the one bk mentioned intoday's notes. In a class I took we all had to do a paper on some aspect of the social effects of the war and I did a paper on the internment camps. Some Japanese were sent as far inland as Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota.
I seem to recall a television movie or miniseries with the name of FArewell to Manzanar. It was based on a family's experiences in a camp in California.
Sadly it is one of many black marks in US history. However all countries have them it is due to ignorance, greed, and fear that hence leads to deplorable actions of those in power.
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What's a "mini-frig"?
Is that...like...what we used to call "a quickie?"
Dorm fridges are nice.... I used to have one also until I sold it to my cousin for their camper.
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Favorite WW2 movies:
The 1961 Jeffrey Hunter film HELL TO ETERNITY
The 1958 AIP film SUICIDE BATTALION (for it's cheeziness)
The Carroll Baker/James Shigeta film BRIDGE TO THE SUN
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CASABLANCA and MISTER ROBERTS. The recent PBS SOUTH PACIFIC was great. GREAT ESCAPE!! Loved that sitcom about prisoners of war in a Nazi prison camp, starring that guy whose death is still a mystery... oy, memory loss... Colonel Klink, those guys... what the heck was the name of that??? More caffeine indicated...
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I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I've never seen The Best Years of Our Lives. I've got to get around to seeing it.
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... something like "MCHales's Navy" but that sure ain't it...
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Hogan's Heroes.... My dad's favorite show
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I saw THE PIANIST recently - that was a great, horrific film of WWII...
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Off to the zoo aka Library...
It was has been a VERY NUTTY week....
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Hogan's Heroes!!! Thank You!!! sheesh...
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Bob Crane... that was his name...
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He played Hogan...
Robert Clary play LeBeau
Werner Klemperer played Klink...
I cant think of the guy who played Schultz
Richard Dawson played a british bloke....
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I'm up, I'm up.
We must be careful when we say we suspect This Island Earth was matted in theaters. By 1955, This Island Earth would not have received special treatment, it would have absolutely been filmed and projected in 1:85. What Universal has done on the DVD is simply transfer the entire 1:37 negative image, hence the top and bottom portions were NOT meant to be seen - the film was NOT framed for that ratio and if you watch a full-frame presentation that fact comes screaming at you in every single shot because there is too much useless headroom in every single shot - it looks bad and Universal, who I very often support while others decry them, dropped the ball on this DVD and they should be ashamed of themselves.
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I'm quite groggy this morning, but if I'm to jog I'd better get to it in the next ten minutes.
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I lost a post
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Jog to relieve the grog!
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Many of my choices were in my LOST post....so I will say
another vote for
BRIDGE TO THE SUN....young American girl marries Japanese boy and moves to Japan just prior to Pearl Harbor...based on a true story
WHERE EAGLES DARE - improbably enjoyable adventure
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL - good Robert Wagner performance and an interesting story of Marines on an island
OPERATION CROSSBOW - another improbably adventure about the race to build a rocket bomb
DESTINATION TOKYO - Cary Grant on a submarine.
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Thoughts and prayers to DP COLIN.
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HELP!!
yes, I am asking for help from DR's on HHW.
The non-actor dumba$$ that we have playing Atticus Finch told us that he will need two suits....one for the courtroom and another one. Fine....that's okay. He is going to buy one. Okay.....the MOST important one is the courtroom suit, of course.
He brings in the one he paid good money for, a nice seersucker suit with NO vest - which is needed in the courtroom. HE BOUGHT THE OTHER SUIT....the one that could have been ANY suit....ANY SUIT WE HAVE!!! And of course the one he bought doesn't have a vest!
HELP....does any DR have a three piece summer linen or seersucker suit in size 42 or 44 R or L that we can borrow.
I can't find anything locally....and I am NOT going to spend $200 on this boob.
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If he was a better actor....I WOULD!
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SPOILERS FOR PWOJECT WUNWAY INCLUDED
Wunway was disappointing for me as well, DR RP. I hated that we lost the person we did, especially since I feel exactly the same way about the "winning" outfit that you do. It looked awful....and why did he let a woman of that age go without SLEEVES!!!!!
My vote to send home would have been Jeffrey OR Vincent!
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Page Three Seersucker Dance....
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SPOILERS FOR PWOJECT WUNWAY INCLUDED
Wunway was disappointing for me as well, DR RP. I hated that we lost the person we did, especially since I feel exactly the same way about the "winning" outfit that you do. It looked awful....and why did he let a woman of that age go without SLEEVES!!!!!
My vote to send home would have been Jeffrey OR Vincent!
Actually, my choice would have been Angela.
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I am anxious to start watching Project Runway again. I really liked the 2 shows that were shown on NBC. But unfortunately i do not get US bravo. And Cdn Bravo does not show it. However it will start in a couple of weeks on Life network (which i also do not get, but my sister does and will tape it).
Hopefully i won't find out who wins.
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I am also anxious to see Big Brother tonight. I'm hoping that James goes, since he is really bugging me. It will be very interesting to see who wins HOH. I"m hoping Will. Cause i want to see what he would do. Of course i'd always love janelle to win.
I'm actually also curious what chicken george would do. I'm not sure if his alliance with janelle is for real. He seems close to her, erika and danielle at various times.
I definitely don't want erika to win. Although i'd be curious to see who she would put up with janelle. I also wonder if danielle (or janelle for that matter) would honor their one week truce. I'm guessing neither would. But i'm actually wondering if danielle would be more likely to keep her word (since she is trying to be more honest).
Anyhow hopefully it won't be another lame trivia comp.
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Wasn't there an old tongue twister: How many seers could a seersucker suck if a seersucker could...etc?
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Actually, my choice would have been Angela.
You are right! I haven't liked ANYTHING she has done....even her outfit that won the challenge a couple of weeks ago....
That fringe thing was awful....yup even worse than Vincent's. 8)
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Wasn't there an old tongue twister: How many seers could a seersucker suck if a seersucker could...etc?
There is NOW! :P
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JRand - a-yup... ah, a life in the theatah... ain't it grand.
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How 'bout another vest, in a complementary color and contrasting fabric?
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It's a community production, after all - not a documentary...
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How 'bout another vest, in a complementary color and contrasting fabric?
Exactly.....
I bought a light brown vest that will go with the darker brown suit I brought to him....yes, DR PENNYO....that is my thought.
Why are the WORST actors the MOST picky about their costumes? Of course....I usually talk to the costumer and then go out and find my own....it's safer that way. ;D
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DR George, my friend Jeff got his mini-frig at Target, too, but he said he has seen similar models at Home Depot if that's any help.
Ooo! Thanks! I hadn't thought of there. And there's one very close to where I live. :D
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What's a "mini-frig"?
Is that...like...what we used to call "a quickie?"
Umm...not exactly. ::)
;D (It should be spelled "fridge.")
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Ah yes, Michael ... I would add to my list --
Operation Petticoat
Mr. Roberts
Cabaret
South Pacific
Since CABARET takes place circa 1929-31, I'd hardly count it as a World War II movie, but I would MR ROBERTS and SOUTH PACIFIC to my list.
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I see that SUPERMAN seasons 5 and 6 will be released Nov. 14. I may pick this one up as I think my friends Diana Darrin and Laurie Mitchell appear in an episode each during those seasons.
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I finished THIS ISLAND EARTH. It did hold my attention more in the second half. Alas, the transfer had some problems in the second half. Still, it looks good so many years later. I understand the last DVD issue of it (also full screen) was abysmal. This at least looks very good.
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Yes, I'm looking forward to finishing out my collection of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN. Then, I can dump all the homemade videotapes of those episodes I made over the years.
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Next, I put in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Oh, boy, what a difference in this now from the last hideous DVD issue! This has been cleaned and looks simply fantastic.
Due to a succession of phone calls, I wasn't quite able to finish it nor was I able to watch the documentary or hear any of the commentaries. Soon. . . .
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A couple of unseen GREY'S ANATOMY episodes for me tonight. Looking forward to them.
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Had a nice, brisk jog, a nice breakfast meeting, and then picked up the manuscript with the final set of corrections. I've already entered all but a dozen (there really weren't that many, but she caught some good stuff) - I have to ponder the dozen or so that I'm not sure about, and have some questions about them.
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Hi, George. Hi, Elmore! My boys!!!
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How can there be any sin in sinseersucker?
Where is the good in goodbiplane?
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Der Grampa is on his way back from ladsitting. He wants to go out. I've a hunch he wants a drink and to talk about Magic Mommy. What she's been up to this time, I have no idea.
:P
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I'm stunned!
Stunned!
Stunned is what I am.
Just STUNNED!
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I forgot to mention this morning when I was talking about that WILD WILD WEST episode which I watched last night that it was directed by Richard Donner. I had NO idea he was directing TV in the mid-60s.
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Now, off to clean the bedroom areas and then back to finish DOUBLE INDEMNITY.
WBBL.
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Why am I stunned?
I just received in the mail an item I won on eBay. I paid "dearly" for it. It was a competitively bid upon item. The description was nearly too good to be true: A "near Mint" (jacket and LP) 10-inch of MGM's "The Pirate" (first issue on 33 1/3).
This was issued in 1951.
It arrived today. I expected nice...but I didn't expect THIS nice....the cover is like new...the LP is glossy/shiny. The only telltale sign of age is in a slightly yellowed back (which was originally more eggshell than white). The artwork is terrific. The photo I'm adding here does not do the cover justice...at all!!!
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As for "Why do you buy these things?"....
...."Because I love them"!
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Since CABARET takes place circa 1929-31, I'd hardly count it as a World War II movie, but I would MR ROBERTS and SOUTH PACIFIC to my list.
I wasn't sure when Cabaret was set, but I thought it was just on the cusp of WWW2
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Michael S: have you seen the NAZI PRISON ESCAPE documentary? I had assumed that that material was accurate. Any insight into this?
I am not familar with that documentary but I will look into it!
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Many of my choices were in my LOST post....so I will say
another vote for
BRIDGE TO THE SUN....young American girl marries Japanese boy and moves to Japan just prior to Pearl Harbor...based on a true story
WHERE EAGLES DARE - improbably enjoyable adventure
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL - good Robert Wagner performance and an interesting story of Marines on an island
OPERATION CROSSBOW - another improbably adventure about the race to build a rocket bomb
DESTINATION TOKYO - Cary Grant on a submarine.
How could I have forgotten Where Eagles Dare! That is my absolutely favorite WWW2. i own it on DVD and when I want pure entertainment I watch which turns out to be about once a month or so.
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Would THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK be considered a WWW2
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.
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I wasn't sure when Cabaret was set, but I thought it was just on the cusp of WWW2
"On the cusp..." seems accurate. What we saw in Isherwood's stories, "I Am A Camera" & "Cabaret" was Berlin just before (1930-31)-- and then during -- the Nazis taking power (and establishing the Third Reich) in Germany -- circa 1933.
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Since it is DR TCB's birthday today I thought i would electronically sing him our happy happy birthday song. It is a tradition at hollywood high school.
*sung in a solemn, monotone voice*
Happy birthday, Happy birthday
There is destruction and despair
People dying everywhere
*quick up tempo*
THIS IS YOUR BIRTHDAY SONG,
IT ISNT VERY LONG W00!
happy birthday!
Thank you, Adriana Patti, I am touched by the sentiment.
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Hi, George. Hi, Elmore! My boys!!!
Hi Penny! (more than an hour later ::))
;D
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Name the night, and Jed and I will take you out for a celebratory dinner and/or ice cream. ColdStone sounds like a great birthday treat...
Thank you Dear Cyber-Daughter, Ann! And I will, of course, take you and son Jed up on the offer!
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Happy Birthday TCB!!
I hope you have a very splendid day!
Thank you for the kind wishes, DakotaCelt. Don't over-work yourself so early in the school year.
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I had a nice visit with Mr. Matt Ashford last night - he's busy rehearsing for Urinetown now, which I suppose I'll go see when it opens.
That would probably be better than waiting until it closes to see it.
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TOD - I love THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, too. And SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. STALAG 17. THE GREAT ESCAPE. And so many others.
I re-watched many many WW II movies before writing my last TV-movie - which is about a family in small-town America during the war - mainly from a child's POV. It'll be aired in November. It was great fun writing it -- I've always wanted to write a 40's style film.
What network, Maria?
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Hi all. I owe a very late but most sincere Happy Birthday to Dear TCB. I thought your birthday was today!
Please don't apologize to me, DR Danise. Good wishes from you are appreciated any day.
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What's a "mini-frig"?
Is that...like...what we used to call "a quickie?"
If you can get a quickie at Home Depot, then I have been shopping at the wrong store!
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Packaged up a bunch of orders - trying to decide if I want to brave the Post Office now or wait until the morning - probably the morning. All corrections are now present and accounted for, and tomorrow we design the book proper.
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Ooo! Thanks! I hadn't thought of there. And there's one very close to where I live. :D
Where you live now; where you used to live; or where you are going to move?
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Where you live now; where you used to live; or where you are going to move?
All three! I'm actually not moving very far and will probably be pretty close to the same distance away from Home Depot from either place. ;)
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Come on guys! Glen Close has almost as many dalmations, as we have posts!!!
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Turn and burn.
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Tun
and
burn!
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Right now, I'm on the west side of I-5, about 1 and 1/2 miles from the exit. I'll move to the east side of I-5 (practically on the same street), about 1 mile from the same exit...also much, much closer to my work.
One of the best things about moving will be when I have to go to the post office to pick up packages that require a signature. Right now, because I'm on the west side of I-5, I have to go to the West Olympia post office. It's six miles away from where I live and I have to take an extra long lunch to get there...traffic is horrible on the West Side at lunch time! But if I get the place I want, my mail would go to the Tumwater post office, which is only two blocks from where I live! I love that! ;D
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Gad....and zooks!
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HELLFIRE AND DALMATIONS - that was actually the title of something, wasn't it?
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For those who need another recommendation for movies to watch:
In my list of WW2 films was "For A Lost Soldier". The same usual suspects might like to add that to their lists as well.
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For those who need another recommendation for movies to watch:
In my list of WW2 films was "For A Lost Soldier". The same usual suspects might like to add that to their lists as well.
I've actually seen this. A very sensitive handling of a controversial subject (if I remember correctly).
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T.O.D.
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
DAS BOOT
U-571
Hmm, three submarine movies! I wonder what Dr. Freud would say?
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Sensitive indeed DR George.
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Maybe that some of us have a boot fetish!
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Quote from: Tomovoz on Today at 08:07:53pm
For those who need another recommendation for movies to watch:
In my list of WW2 films was "For A Lost Soldier". The same usual suspects might like to add that to their lists as well.
I've actually seen this. A very sensitive handling of a controversial subject (if I remember correctly).
Yes, you do remember correctly. A very nice film worth checking out. Anthony and I watched it a few years ago. We should look for it and watch it again.
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Time for me to leave for the Hospital visits of the day.
I'm beginning to think I'll look good in white. I've been visiting a friend with suspected TB. He's been cleared of that now so at least today I shall not to be masked! (Which may be even scarier).
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DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!
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Thursday greetings! Don't know why it's taken me so long to log in here today - did y'all miss me?
TOD - I posed this question at the dinner (linguini & chicken, salad) table. DH Richard's choice: The Bridge on the River Kwai; DS Rob's choice: U-571; my choices: Patton and The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Time for me to leave for the Hospital visits of the day.
I'm beginning to think I'll look good in white. I've been visiting a friend with suspected TB. He's been cleared of that now so at least today I shall not to be masked! (Which may be even scarier).
Didn't ALW write a musical about you?
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Any Jeopardy (http://www.jeopardy.com/ny06printticket.html) fans among the group who'll be in NYC the first week of October? DH Richard and I don't think any of these times will fit into our schedule - darn!
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I don't remember if this has been posted yet (if anyone cares, anyway ;)), but PLUTO GETS THE BOOT (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html)! The International Astronomical Union decided Thursday to demote Pluto so that the solar system now (actually, again) has only eight "planets." It's been downgraded to what is being called a "dwarf planet." Very interesting.
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And in THIS (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.widow.reut/index.html) article, the widow of the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 said that her husband would have understood the demotion.
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WWII films:
Concur with PennyO on THE PIANIST. A nice film came out about 2 yrs ago called ROSENSTRASSE, which was a different take, but nicely done. Anyone see it?
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What network, Maria?
Disney Channel, TCB. As I said earlier, it's the 1940's movie I've always wanted to write. It even features a mini tap dance extravagnaza. And there are several mentions of Mickey and Judy (the lead little girl admires their dancing and wants to emulate them). Sooo, I visited bk at the Collectors Showcase last month... and Mr. Rooney was there! (And didn't seem too thrilled by the fact). I told him that it was an honor to meet him and informed him that he's held in great regard in this new film. He perked up for a moment -- until he realized it was merely television. His wife was very gracious.
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I'm off now. I'm going to my parents' house for dinner...lasagna! ;D
Later!
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FATELESS makes THE PIANIST look like a Disney film. Very Hungarian.
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FATELESS makes THE PIANIST look like a Disney film. Very Hungarian.
glad I missed it! PIANIST as Disney film... all those shiny bullets whizzing magically through the happy Spring air, thunking humorously into those squishy Jews! And the pretty fountains of bright shiny red blood splashing merrily into the cobbled streets!
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Could the Hungarian film be funnier than that???
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Good evening, fellow Dear Readers. Early this morning, my DH and I took off on a day trip. There's a road that he thinks runs along the prettiest spot in Arizona. So off we went. And ran into a major storm. 25 miles on a dirt road along the Mogollon Rim (which DR Cillaliz will remember) with pounding rain and hail. Before we ran out of cell phone range, I called home and left a message telling the kids where we were, in case we didn't make it home.
They were pounded with rain here, too, with several folks needing rescue from the flooded streets. I'll never understand why people drive into flooded washes. That is pounded into our heads: Don't drive into a flooded street.
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Next, I put in DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Oh, boy, what a difference in this now from the last hideous DVD issue! This has been cleaned and looks simply fantastic.
Due to a succession of phone calls, I wasn't quite able to finish it nor was I able to watch the documentary or hear any of the commentaries. Soon. . . .
That reminds me, I need to get to the store and by the movie....
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Come on guys! Glen Close has almost as many dalmations, as we have posts!!!
Woof!! Woof!!!
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Good evening, fellow Dear Readers. Early this morning, my DH and I took off on a day trip. There's a road that he thinks runs along the prettiest spot in Arizona. So off we went. And ran into a major storm. 25 miles on a dirt road along the Mogollon Rim (which DR Cillaliz will remember) with pounding rain and hail. Before we ran out of cell phone range, I called home and left a message telling the kids where we were, in case we didn't make it home.
They were pounded with rain here, too, with several folks needing rescue from the flooded streets. I'll never understand why people drive into flooded washes. That is pounded into our heads: Don't drive into a flooded street.
I was just wondering about you. Glad to hear you made it home. I used to take visitors on that road. I would NOT want to be on it in a storm
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I completely forgot to mention this afternoon that the other thing I watched earlier today was TWO GIRLS AND A SAILOR. I recorded this yesterday on the DVR and just got to it today.
It was over two hours long - ricidulous for a cream puff confection of song and story. But it was so loaded with talent each getting one or more numbers that a twenty minute plot was extended past the point of irritation. I mean, they had TWO big bands: Harry James and Xavier Cugat, each of whom performed two or three times plus solo artists appearing with the bands, too. You additionally had Jose Iturbi, Jimmy Durante, Ben Blue, Virginia O'Brien, Helen Forrest, and Lena Horne with one or two numbers each in addition to June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven sharing several duets and each having a solo. WAY overstuffed.
Come to think of it, ANCHORS AWEIGH made the next year was also over two hours. I guess during the war years, they crammed as much music, song, and dance into these romantic musicals.
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Tonight, I first finished DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Just as magnificent as I remembered it to be.
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There is also a featurette on the first disc on the making of the film. Interesting facts about the uneasy working relationship between Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder that I didn't realize. Much of the documentary is a puff piece on what a masterpiece the film is (like we didn't know that!), but I did appreciate the background on Chandler, and that Billy Wilder's next film was more than a little nod in the direction of Chandler - THE LOST WEEKEND.
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The two GREY'S ANATOMY episodes shown tonight were way out of sync with each other. I don't quite understand why ABC is skipping backwards and forwards in time in showing these episodes. They're great, wonderful, and I'm familiar enough with the series now to be able to follow the ongoing story strands even as chopped up as they are.
However, I'll be glad to get the reruns over with a settle in with the new season and thus episodes in order.
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CSI repeated a very interesting episode with a virgin birth and also Gil having to disprove the scientific evidence of a fellow forensic scientist that seemed irrefutible.
The only negative: no George Eads tonight. However, since he had the majority to do on last week's episode, I guess it's only fair that other players be given their chances in the spotlight.
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Off to bed now.
Good night!
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Congrats to DR RP on the Pirate score!
I am watching NANCY GOES TO RIO....MGM 1950...and the backdrop behind Ann Southern looks suspiciously like the one re-used that same year behind Judy for "Get Happy".....
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Design the Book Proper
That is the title of my new university class.
Yes DR MICHAEL S....I watch EAGLES every six weeks or so just because it is still so much fun.
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It's midnight
Quoth the raven nevermore.
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Back from a really yummilicious dinner, and dismayed to find a dearth of postings - of course, what postings there are are cherce, but the errant and truant MIAs are really going to get a bitch-slapping to remember.
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Ann Southern is playing Jane Powell's mother....not sure which way the insult falls.
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ouch! I got here JIT!
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Ordered a Mifune DVD a couple of weeks ago....still waiting....grrrrrrrrrr
But did get a copy of COUNTERPLOT starring Miss Allison Hayes and Mr Forrest Tucker. NOT a high point of film history....but pleasant enough. And Mr Tucker and Ms Hayes stayed at the newly built Caribe Hilton (the first Hilton Hotel outside the 48 states) while lesser cast members stayed at a smaller hotel down the San Juan beach.....Tucker and Hayes often invited the others to dinner at the SWANK HOSTEL....and made sure Jackie Wayne could use the pool and beach at the Caribe....when Allison and photographer Bill Crispel were NOT snapping those GENT magazine photos.
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Enduring NANCY GOES TO RIO just to watch LADY BE GOOD is almost too much to bear.....almost.....
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I always thought the title THIS ISLAND EARTH was one of the most poetic in all SciFiDom......
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Zoom Buzz
I really HATE acting games and exercises and pushing the power ball and imagining yourself swimming.....I always think I am in a play with Mr Karp...and I am Morales......
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Enough of this!
Time for to go to bed.
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Page Six Allison Dance. 8)
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Well it is nice to see Ms. Hayes around these here parts once again!
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Will someone tell me why Terence Malick has the reputation he does? We just endured THE NEW WORLD, one of the most tedious films I've ever seen. I'm beginning to believe that Colin Farrell just simply cannot act, though God knows his director, Malick, certainly doesn't help him with slumberfest (I kid you not, The Lovely Wife and I must have dozed off a half dozen times during it...the only problem being, you wake up and nothing's happened and you're right where you were), providing him with no character, no scintillating dialogue, and a threadbare plot. Endless shots of people wandering around the woods...gazing at each other either lovingly, sadly, or contemplatively...long after the point of the scene has been established (and there weren't a lot of points). Almost no dialogue, but the film is saddled with a pointless narration. You know it's not needed when you can understand everything ad nauseam through the laborious shots that pound the simpistic and simple-minded story into you in beating-the-dead-horse doses. And despite its simplistic story, the motivations remain muddled. A little more character, Terence, less scenery, okay? And there are these god-awful jarring blackouts and the whole thing, despite its simplisticness, seems disconnected and aimless. Avoid it like the plague...unless you're having trouble sleeping.
I felt the same way about Malick's Days of Heaven. He gets my prize for most over-rated director.
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Could the Hungarian film be funnier than that???
I didn't mean to offend you, Penny. Or maybe you weren't offended and I misunderstood. Of course, I wasn't meaning that either film was Disney-esque. It's simply that Fateless presents the story in such a matter-of-fact way, stripped of all melodrama, that it's painful to watch, but rewarding in the end. It presents a totally different view of the horror of those days, suggesting a kind of perverse beauty. I've never seen anything like it -- and my family lived through a lot of what the movie shows - so I certainly wasn't makling light of it.
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I have never heard of Terence Malick or his reputation...although that would be a great name for a band...Terence Malick and his Reputations!
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Met with a friend after work and we went for some drinks and appetizers after work. It was a pleasant time and a great way to wind down a nasty work week.
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Well, this WUSSBURGERING is pathetic.
The only Malick film I like is entitled Badlands. Every other one I've endured has been torture.
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AOL is now offering their customers free AOL mail and buddy list, should you choose not to use them to connect to the Internet. I'm about to finally take advantage of that little thing, because guess what - although I am logged on to AOL, I cannot go to any websites - not happening, not working, total BS.
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I'm here...finally. ::) I went to my parents' house for dinner and we had lasagna. It was homemade and very good. My mom also made homemade macaroni and cheese! That was even better than the lasagna! She put bread crumbs on the top of the mac and cheese and it got all crunchy and very good. :)
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She also made fried zucchini (bland, but not bad) and my sister and niece (because they've become pseudo-vegetarians) had fried clam strips. :P
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Dessert was homemade (except for the crust) strawberry-rhubarb pie. I've never liked it but I ate it. ;) My mom tried to make whipped cream, but it never whipped up. My dad thinks that she might have accidentally tried to whip some half-and-half. I wouldn't doubt it. ;D