Haines His Way

Mr Pat Conroy wrote a couple of other novels that I like very much as well.

DR ELMORE - some great opening lines there!

DR MBarnum, sorry to have left you on pins and needles for what is most likely a month or more.  I found the box with your surprise in it tonight. Guess I haven't sent it yet.....I'll send it at the end of the week when I'm off work and can get to the post office with ease

There should be MORE movies like MAMBO GIRL!  Yes, ALL movies should be like MAMBO GIRL.

I want to direct a movie that opens with the heroine wearing harlequin print capri pants and dancing the cha cha on a checked linoleum floor.  I want to direct a movie where a girl discovers she is an orphan and that her mother is an attendant in the ladies room of a strip club - a club that has as its star attraction Margo Z Bomb!  Margo's undulations, writhings, and rolling on the floor while kicking - and fringed bikini would make even Miss Ann-Margret in THE SWINGER blush and turn away.  And then the MAMBO GIRL makes up with her adoptive parents....and sings another song and dances some more....cha cha cha!

DR MBARNUM I just bought a DVD of SCANDAL with Mr Mifune for only $11 including shpg.

Very good! You will love the movie! Just beware as there is one region 0 version out there that has sound that is totally out of sync with the picture.

Very good! You will love the movie! Just beware as there is one region 0 version out there that has sound that is totally out of sync with the picture.

Uh-oh!  Well that may be that...as they say.  Time will tell.

I think Kenny Miller is....well....I don't think he is interested in girls, so to speak.

I Like Asparagus....how about you?



Me, too, DR DAKOTA CELT - I am more a fan of the GWTW movie than the book, although the book certainly has a LOT more story!

I like asparagus

Heck, MM's description of Rhett was not that great but Clark Gable was YUMMY!!

That is something you will never hear from me, Cap'n Butler, as long as you live!

DR CP - I really enjoy your HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES...and especially like Mr Nicholas Clay in his two roles.

I have one concern with high definition, actually a few

1. Will one be able to still view older vhs and dvds?

2. Will it allow for close captioning and related technologies?  Will it be integrated with the HI-FI or will one have to have a separate reader?

3. Will have ot have new peripherals to view anything with it?

4. Since analog broadcasts are going to the wayside... 2008 (praying my telly lasts that long before I have to breakdown and buy a new one) The cable companies will now hold us hostage... GRRR!!  I refuse to pay 60 a month for basic, yes 60.... and that does nto include HBO or any premium channels....

To answer your questions:

1. No problem there, and DVD will look the best it can look on a digital television. VHS can naturally be watched on an HDTV, but it is the lowest resolution commercial media, so they're going to look rather bland on a digital set. You've got the potential for 1080 scan lines of information on an HDTV, and a VHS tape has about 230 lines of information, so you can see it's not going to look terrifically sharp or rich in color.

2. HDTVs have integrated speakers just as current sets have. They don't produce the richest sound experience imaginable, but closed captioning, second audio channels, etc. are just as possible with HDTVs as with standard TVs. You do not need an audio receiver to receive sound.

3. Depends on how you receive your TV signal. If you get TV now over the air with an antenna, an HDTV will either have a built in digital receiver or you will be able to buy a digital receiver to go with the TV so you can continue to pick up over the air broadcasts just as with analog TV. It's just that the analog signals will be gone with only digital signals remaining, and an ordinary TV can't receive those signals either without a digital box. Even those who don't buy a digital set will have to buy a digital receiver for their old TVs by 2009 if they want to get local broadcasting.

4. See response 3. There will still be free over the air digital broadcasts of high definition information. They're available now. You just need a digital receiver to receive the signals if your set doesn't have a built-in digital receiver. Most new sets being built now are having this feature built in. So, no, you won't have to automatically subscribe to cable just to have TV.

Mr Pat Conroy wrote a couple of other novels that I like very much as well.

I agree with you.

I am not sure if this was sabotage by the art director OR the costume designer - OR if it was just a happy accident!

But it is seared in my memory!  

Matt, thanks for the info, I'm going to have to get a new TV and I don't want to spend a bagillion dollars on one, the info is helpful, still not sure what to do

Thank you, DRs DakotaCelt and JRand, for your congratulations.