Topic: EYE ON THE SPARROW (Read 23983 times)

bk · « **on:** May 26, 2007, 12:21:37 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had its eye on the sparrow, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - the sparrow has its eye on the cows, but they ain't mooooooving.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2007, 12:23:23 AM »

And the word of the day is: PASQUINADE!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #2 on:** May 26, 2007, 12:29:41 AM »

TOTD:
Rope
The Glen Miller Story
Harvey

Tomovoz · « **Reply #3 on:** May 26, 2007, 12:30:36 AM »

Anna Pasquinade - wasn't she in "The Piano"

singdaw · « **Reply #4 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:51:01 AM »

Pasquinade...isn't that the Act II opener in Phantom of the Opera?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:54:32 AM »

TOD: 1st JS film I remember: Harvey
Favorites: The Philadelphia Story
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It's a Wonderful Life
Shenandoah
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Greatest Show On Earth

Jimmy Stewart is probably my favorite actor of all-time. I know some of these aren't his best films, like the Hitchcock films are, but just ones I'm fond of.

A friend and I had a party to celebrate JS's 80th birthday. We actually put 80 candles on the cake and lit them and took a picture of it to send to him along with a birthday card. That was a mistake---the heat of so many lit candles made them all melt and we had to peel a big sheet of wax off the top of the cake before we could eat it! (Dont try this at home...)

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:54:32 AM »

VERY GLAD to see that DR Danise is home safe & sound, with the doggies.

DR Danise, eveyone experiences grief differently. Expect that you will have good times and bad as you move forward. Now that the "busy-ness" of the past few weeks settles down, the realities will start to settle in. Go with it, and remember the promises of new beginnings that have arisen, too. Treasure your memories. And know that we are here to support you, in whatever ways we can.

Edisaurus · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:56:17 AM »

Good Morning, DR Slingo. Didn't you get the memo that this is a holiday weekend?

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:58:08 AM »

DR Edisaurus...[and thanks, DR George!]...looking great!

Nary a lock out of place.

singdaw · « **Reply #9 on:** May 26, 2007, 02:59:35 AM »

Good morning! I guess I missed that one...or I could say the same to you!

PLUS, last night I was simply so exhausted that I was in bed by shortly after 8:00 PM...

Must walk the dog, do a dry cleaning errand, and then off to NJ for some serious unpacking activity.

But I just love a 3-day expanse of POSSIBILITY! And my husband is off singing in Paris, so the days are truly mine!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #10 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:00:29 AM »

Thanks, Sing! I should have gotten a haircut before sending it to the paper, but they seemed in a hurry. Guess they wanted to start their holiday weekend!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #11 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:01:36 AM »

My cat doesn't know about the hoilday weekend. I sent a memo, but she can't read, so....

singdaw · « **Reply #12 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:03:36 AM »

ps...I probably wouldn't have purchased the Apted "UP" series on DVD if it weren't for that little discount coupon card inside The Internationale...

singdaw · « **Reply #13 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:04:06 AM »

Have a great day!!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #14 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:04:32 AM »

Good luck with unpacking and with NJ!

I think I can get another hour's sleep before I have to get up for good. My big love is curled up next to me with his head on the keyboard and paw on the trackpad, fast asleep and snoring. So cute! But hard to type when he does this!

Have a good day!

Edisaurus · « **Reply #15 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:06:11 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on May 26, 2007, 03:03:36 AM

ps...I probably wouldn't have purchased the Apted "UP" series on DVD if it weren't for that little discount coupon card inside The Internationale...

Oh, really? I didn't know! Maybe I should open my copy! (I haven't yet, since I've seen it a few hundres times...)

I haven't seen the latest "UP" film. Is it good?

Edisaurus · « **Reply #16 on:** May 26, 2007, 03:07:15 AM »

Back to snoozeland!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 26, 2007, 04:33:24 AM »

Saturday.

Wasn't the Rev. Pasquinade the man who was going to marry Maurice Townsend and Katherine Sloper?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 26, 2007, 04:35:56 AM »

Hmmmm.....I know the first James Stewart film I saw would have been on television. My guess is that it was MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON.

Favorites......

IT'S WONDERFUL LIFE
THE GLENN MILLER STORY
BEND OF THE RIVER
NO TIME FOR COMEDY

Jrand73 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 26, 2007, 04:36:28 AM »

TAKE HER SHE'S MINE - which I saw at the actual movies!!!

MR HOBBS TAKES A VACATION:

Mr Hobbs: Where's Brenda? (the Norwegian maid)

Mrs Hobbs: She quit this morning.

Mr Hobbs: Quit?! Why?

Mrs Hobbs: She said you swore at her!

Mr Hobbs: I did no such thing.

Mrs Hobbs: Well what did you say?

Mr Hobbs: I just said I was going to get a little son on the beach.....

Matt H. · « **Reply #20 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:07:18 AM »

Good morning!

Beautiful day here and continues hot and dry. No rain in sight for the next five days. I guess we are in drought conditions.

Matt H. · « **Reply #21 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:08:46 AM »

I bit of explanation about my absence last night:

I fell asleep! I knew my eyes were getting heavy so I turned off what I was watching and eased back in my recliner. The next thing I knew,l it was 11:30, and I was so tired, I just put myself to bed and th next thing I knew it was 7 a.m. That hasn't happened in a long time. I guess I had a lot of sleep to catch up.

Matt H. · « **Reply #22 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:11:12 AM »

Anyway, last night's viewing:

I began with the last episode in the PLANET EARTH Blu-ray set: "Ocean Deep." The underwater photography wasn't always as startling as in earlier chapters, but that's mainly due to where the photography was done - miles below the surface where there was literally no light. Amazing creatures there.

I'm a little sad the series is over. What a monumentally entertaining assortment of documentaries. High recommended!

Matt H. · « **Reply #23 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:12:26 AM »

Next, I continued watching Droopy cartoons. I did about six more of them before their sameness began to get predictable. The quality of the transfers continued to get better the deeper into the set I watched.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:12:29 AM »

Good morning, all! I have a schlep down to Toyland for several hours and then a coffee break with former DR Noel. Beyond that, I have very little to do this weekend; I had an email this morning with a job offer I'm thinking of accepting but my priority on Tuesday is my first day of another round of Jury Duty (Oy!).

TOD:
Anatomy of a Murder
It's A Wonderful Life
Vertigo
Bell Book and Candle
The Shop Around the Corner

elmore3003 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:14:04 AM »

Good morning, DR MattH! You are never online at this time of the morning. What a surprise!

DR Danise, I'm happy to know you are safely home.

Matt H. · « **Reply #26 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:16:43 AM »

Then, off the to-watch shelf, I pulled EVIL UNDER THE SUN. No, not the marvelously entertaining Peter Ustinov version with Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, Roddy McDowall, James Mason, and others.

No, this was the BBC "official" version with David Suchet. It looked wonderful despite ita 4:3 dimensions and mono sound, and while the story is of course the same of the 1982 film adapted from the Christie book, the characters are truer to the original story so the Brewster character was a woman and not Roddy McDowall (although he played it like Tallulah Bankhead so it's hard to tell what sex he was trying to represent). The James Mason character was also originally a woman. And there was heroin smuggling in the story which was not at all in the 1982 film.

Still, the denouement was the same, same guilty party (parties) and same method of murder.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #27 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:16:49 AM »

Good morning.

We just finished enjoying the Richard Harris stage production of Camelot.

Matt H. · « **Reply #28 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:18:00 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on May 26, 2007, 05:14:04 AM

Good morning, DR MattH! You are never online at this time of the morning. What a surprise!

Good morning to you, DR Elmore! Yes, I'm tryhing to make up for lost time from last night. I'll also be back later in the morning after I do my morning workout. I'm just trying to catch up with various sites I didn't get to last night.

Matt H. · « **Reply #29 on:** May 26, 2007, 05:20:03 AM »

I ended my evening with a film musical I haven't watched in a long, long time: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. I got a little more than halfway through before sleep overtook me.

This film BADLY needs a new transfer. It looked grainy and the color looked very dated. Still, a very entertaining film. I'll finish it up when I go down and fix lunch.

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