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[DakotaCelt]

Happy Birthday to DR DakotaCelt! Hope you have a great day!

Thank you Jennifer!

[DakotaCelt]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAKOTA CELT~~~~~~!!!!!!!~~~~~~~

Thank you Cilla!  I hope you have a good evening... I hope things are are better with Cilla.

[DakotaCelt]

Good morning, all.

There's an opinion piece in the Washington Post on "Les Miz" and gender stereotypes that you might want to check out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-love-les-miserables-despite-its-miserable-gender-stereotypes/2012/12/28/bc8ef17e-4f84-11e2-839d-d54cc6e49b63_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

The writing is pedantic, but the ugly nature of the comments is such that it makes me think she struck a nerve with her observations.

OH PUHLEESE..... does EVERYTHING have to be examined in the politically correct lens of the feminist?   I am so sick of this sort of drivel.

Having spent 2/3 of my career in higher education, I just laughed - both at the piece and the comments.

I shook my head and I worked in a library. Good grief, sometimes PC goes just a little too far. Yes, I am a feminist but I also can take a step back and see things through a historical and cultural lens.

AS a person who studied media, that is always a danger of making assertions of a show or movie that was done in the 40s or 50s. I try to be conscious of presenting the ideas of the program of that day, yet trying to balance it with the mores and perceptions of the present-day. As an educator, she has failed in that capacity and is allowing her own bias to cloud her essay.

[DakotaCelt]

Happy Birthday to DR DakotaCelt!

Thank you Kevin!

[DakotaCelt]

DR DakotaCelt!

Thank you TCB...

I have had you in my thoughts and I hope they are going well for you.

[DakotaCelt]

Thank you Jane!

Cute graphic!

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

[Jeanne]

THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS
to
DR DAKOTA CELT!!

[Jeanne]

May you have a lovely birthday!

[Jeanne]

Dakota, I hope you discover a few new possibilities at your current job and can then leap to a better one.

[Jeanne]

Not much news here. Doing laundry.

[Jeanne]

Bruce, there's a FRENCH film you might enjoy, called THE HEDGEHOG. Of course, it's FRENCH.

[Jeanne]

Laundry beckons.

TTFN.

[elmore3003]

Well, I read the article on LES MIZ. Has this idiot ever read the novel?  Cosette is your typical Victorian heroine: virginal, pretty, bland, blonde, and an objet d'amour for Marius and a hope of redemption for Valjean. She's not as bland as David Copperfield's inane prototype for the Victorian novel, "child bride" Dora, who can't cook, keep house, or think sensibly and who for the benefit of all readers dies very soon after marrying David, but she's still the typical Victorian novel and theatrical heroine. By the 1870s in the theatre at least she'd become a joke, like most of Gilbert & Sullivan's  soprano ingenues, of which Rose Maybud is the   epitome of the calculating and golddigging, but on the surface sweet and innocent, heroine.

Funny, I do not think of Dora as the heroine in David Copperfield.

She isn't but she's the epitome of the Victorian helpless woman

[elmore3003]

This ebook (kindle) of LES MISERABLES is free today (not sure if it's free every day but it was in my newsletter of free ebooks for today):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GHNIRK/?tag=afbmf-20

Just ordered it... It will be nice to have that when I am done cleaning at work and have to sit on my turn and monitor.

Work? Did I miss something? You got a job? This is great, I hope!

[Jane]

Bruce, there's a FRENCH film you might enjoy, called THE HEDGEHOG. Of course, it's FRENCH.

I read the book and didn't know a film had been made.

[elmore3003]

I did get a PT job but it is only for a few hours a week. It is better than nothing. It is working in a safe home for troubled youth. I work mostly overnights and do the cleaning and stuff. I don't mind. I am a bit of a night owl. I have been fighing a vicious cold I cannot seem to shake.

I have also been in contact with some new found cousins. Jobhunting continues.

Yep! I completely missed this.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore, how are those Bell Telephone Hour specials?  I just got that DVD and haven't watched it yet.

[Jane]

Well, I read the article on LES MIZ. Has this idiot ever read the novel?  Cosette is your typical Victorian heroine: virginal, pretty, bland, blonde, and an objet d'amour for Marius and a hope of redemption for Valjean. She's not as bland as David Copperfield's inane prototype for the Victorian novel, "child bride" Dora, who can't cook, keep house, or think sensibly and who for the benefit of all readers dies very soon after marrying David, but she's still the typical Victorian novel and theatrical heroine. By the 1870s in the theatre at least she'd become a joke, like most of Gilbert & Sullivan's  soprano ingenues, of which Rose Maybud is the   epitome of the calculating and golddigging, but on the surface sweet and innocent, heroine.

Funny, I do not think of Dora as the heroine in David Copperfield.

She isn't but she's the epitome of the Victorian helpless woman

I suppose so.  Today spoiled, not to bright, rich young women have their own reality shows

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore, how are those Bell Telephone Hour specials?  I just got that DVD and haven't watched it yet.

Quite wonderful, actually, like a time capsule of another time. There are wonderful moments, some nice orchestration, usually very fine singing, and Florence's overripe diction. I did wonder if the kids she sings "Awat In A Manger" to might be the current crop of kids in SOUND OF MUSIC with her on Broadway.  Some of the costuming is very strange. I did love seeing the Buffalo Bills, Lisa della Casa, and Giorgio Tozzi.  It was a lot of fun.

[Jrand74]

Percy Wetmore

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore, how are those Bell Telephone Hour specials?  I just got that DVD and haven't watched it yet.

Quite wonderful, actually, like a time capsule of another time. There are wonderful moments, some nice orchestration, usually very fine singing, and Florence's overripe diction. I did wonder if the kids she sings "Awat In A Manger" to might be the current crop of kids in SOUND OF MUSIC with her on Broadway.  Some of the costuming is very strange. I did love seeing the Buffalo Bills, Lisa della Casa, and Giorgio Tozzi.  It was a lot of fun.

Oh good.  Glad to hear that.  I'll have it playing tomorrow.

[Druxy]

I would very much like to see San Antonio and do the River Walk.

Come to Austin.  I'll show it to you.  I'm only 1 hour away.

[Jane]

I would like that DR Druxy.

[TCB]

I have yet to see SOLDIER IN THE RAIN all the way through.  The PBS station showed it here a week or two ago and I watched the first few minutes.  I've also caught bits of it on TCM or whatever in the past, and was intrigued enough to order it on a Warner Archives disc.  But have I watched it?  No, but I can tell you the transfer is very weird, and not at all pleasant to sit through -- it's an old video master of some kind, and needs to be done over.  Actually, I don't know what I'm talking about here, but someone on HTF explained what the deal was some time ago and that's the general gist of it.  General Gist.  He's a character in my hilarious new Cold War play that's about to open on Broadway.

Your cold war play?  Not to be confused with THE SINGING SAILOR IN THE RAIN, written by Vixmom and TCB.

[Druxy]

So, when do you arrive?

[TCB]

Sunday morning greetings!  I stayed home from Lima today to take down Christmas decorations.  They usually stay up until after Epiphany (Jan. 6), but I wanted to get them put away before we cross the pond.

Epiphany is a character in that new movie that I believe opened on Christmas Day (but I don't know the name of it).

[Jane]

So, when do you arrive?

Sigh.  I have so many places I want to go.  Having to go to Cozumel next year put a crimp in our travel plans.

[TCB]

I tried to watch WHAT A WAY TO GO last night.  I had only seen it on television, so it was fun to see it in widescreen.....but I gave up about halfway through the Gene Kelly segment....

I also realized that I was confusing it in my mind with a movie titled WOMEN TIMES SEVEN....another Shirley MacLaine movie from the 60's.

Oh, I saw WHAT A WAY TO GO in a theater.  It scarred me for life.

[Laura]

Happy Birthday, DakotaCelt!