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Re:A MONTH OF THURSDAYS
« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2006, 07:02:57 AM »

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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« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2006, 07:04:24 AM »

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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« Reply #32 on: August 24, 2006, 07:51:03 AM »

BK, ditto for me on BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.  BEST WWII and on my top ten list as well.
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Re:A MONTH OF THURSDAYS
« Reply #33 on: August 24, 2006, 07:52:31 AM »

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.

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« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2006, 08:37:05 AM »

Good day one and all.....
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« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2006, 08:37:44 AM »

bk, I was just reading through the play, Urinetown, and Matt's role is Senator Fipp...

Interesting play...
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« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2006, 08:37:55 AM »

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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« Reply #37 on: August 24, 2006, 08:41:42 AM »

Oh...ummmm...."Good Morning, Everyone!"
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« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2006, 08:42:37 AM »

What's a "mini-frig"?

Is that...like...what we used to call "a quickie?"
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« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2006, 08:44:34 AM »

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!





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« Reply #40 on: August 24, 2006, 08:44:39 AM »

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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« Reply #41 on: August 24, 2006, 08:45:24 AM »

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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Re:A MONTH OF THURSDAYS
« Reply #42 on: August 24, 2006, 09:00:21 AM »

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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« Reply #43 on: August 24, 2006, 09:04:51 AM »

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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« Reply #44 on: August 24, 2006, 09:05:06 AM »

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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« Reply #45 on: August 24, 2006, 09:09:37 AM »

... something like "MCHales's Navy" but that sure ain't it...
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« Reply #46 on: August 24, 2006, 09:11:50 AM »

Hogan's Heroes.... My dad's favorite show
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« Reply #47 on: August 24, 2006, 09:12:21 AM »

I saw THE PIANIST recently - that was a great, horrific film of WWII...
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« Reply #48 on: August 24, 2006, 09:12:22 AM »

Off to the zoo aka Library...

It was has been a VERY NUTTY week....
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« Reply #49 on: August 24, 2006, 09:12:50 AM »

Hogan's Heroes!!! Thank You!!! sheesh...
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« Reply #50 on: August 24, 2006, 09:13:28 AM »

Bob Crane... that was his name...
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« Reply #51 on: August 24, 2006, 09:15:17 AM »

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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« Reply #52 on: August 24, 2006, 10:04:34 AM »

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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« Reply #53 on: August 24, 2006, 10:05:17 AM »

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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« Reply #54 on: August 24, 2006, 10:08:11 AM »

I lost a post
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« Reply #55 on: August 24, 2006, 10:08:28 AM »

Jog to relieve the grog!
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« Reply #56 on: August 24, 2006, 10:10:26 AM »

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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« Reply #57 on: August 24, 2006, 10:10:41 AM »

Thoughts and prayers to DP COLIN.
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« Reply #58 on: August 24, 2006, 10:13:48 AM »

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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« Reply #59 on: August 24, 2006, 10:14:05 AM »

If he was a better actor....I WOULD!
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