Haines His Way

Hey, a little sympathy here!

The temperature is hitting 90° and the humidity is almost at 40% - the central air is working overtime and my tomato plants are wilting

der Brucer

Aww, poor DerBrucer. I hope it cools down for you soon!

Had some lunch (my meal o' the day).

Would it be unseemly for a newbie to be giving diet advice?

Are you really only eating only one meal a day, and that, lunch?

As someone who works with people trying to lose weight, and maintain that weight loss once they've reached their optimum weight... eating one meal a day is a big mistake. Sends your body the wrong kinds of signals, and will delay your weight loss.

We sat outside on the patio and had lunch. It is a nippy 106 here.

Love the discourse re Merrily.

... And the book is just not good - a few lines of Furthian dialogue are funny, but it's melodramatic, arch, and finds no way to make us care about anything that happens.

Woody and I both saw :
Tom Stoppard's "Artist Descending a Staircase
which, like Merrily, uses non-liner story-telling. Stoppard may not get you caring deeply about the characters, but he does have you enthralled with finding out how they came to their present condition; you await with eager anticipation each page turned backward. Gimmicky, sure - but good theatre!

Screenwriter John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Go, and Charlie’s Angels) observed:

Personally, I find that non-linear structure is often just a flashy trick to disguise bad storytelling, or worse, a boring plot. It demands that the audience pay closer attention in order to figure out what’s going on, but rarely rewards the effort.

As you pointed out, when we couldn't care less about the characters we meet in Scene 1, why wait for Scene 2?

The fault is not the conceit, but the execution, and here I agree with you, the majority of the failure should be assigned to Furth!

der Brucer

Aww, poor DerBrucer. I hope it cools down for you soon!

I knew I could count on your sympathy!

der Brucer

Is that THE WOMAN IN WHITE?

No that's an image that didn't like posting!

der Brucer

Der Brucer, I know that your hot and humid is much worse than my hotter and dry.

That is cheating, derBrucer.

Why, TCB, I'm sure I don'y know what you mean . (BK has taught me well!)

der Brucer

A Titanic cartoon reference.

Next, I watched CAGED. I'm sorry, but there isn't anything campy about this movie. It's a serious drama with fine production values and excellent performances. Is it considered campy because Emerson calls the women "tramps," or there is dialog like, "She's a cute trick" or "Who's the fish?" Sounds very realistic to me, especially for a necessarily toned down Production Code feature of 1950.

Shouldn't that more properly be, "Who is it, fish?"

JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUTH!


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Veteran alligator wrestler James Peacock, right, watches as his student, Scott Cohen, works with an alligator at the Native Village Wildlife Park in Hollywood, Fla.


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Scott Cohen, who started as a volunteer at the Native Village and is now in training to become an alligator wrestler, pulls a gator from the holding pond at the park in Hollywood, Fla.

der Brucer

Perhaps DR Sandra would like to get her brother a job?

And to think I posted about Jews not camping.  Who knew some alligator wrestled?  

Dear TD.... DIXIE BELL is a real beauty !!

Dear Mikey B ..... Bosco could melt butter with those eyes!  (he obviously studied with you!)

Thanks for the pictures !!!!

MattH - several films in these camp collections hardly qualify as camp.  Caged is, at times, a bit ripe, especially Emerson, whose performances always seem to be (she's one of my favorites), but camp it's not - not in the same way Valley Of The Dolls is deemed camp.

So, 3DDiffusion, you work with folks who want to lose weight? Do you teach the point thing, or are you a dietitian?

I'm thinking of watching Von Ryan's Express - don't think I've ever seen it before, or, if I have, that I watched it all the way through.