Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Jrand74]

New doctor vibes for DR GINNY....yes, I agree!

[Jrand74]

Page Two Dance.

[ChasSmith]

Good (late) morning, all.

Late, not because I slept late, but because I'm loafing around.  Time to get moving!

[ChasSmith]

Loved, loved, loved the first paragraph (especially) of today's notes...   classic bk!       


(I would call the song "Things are Bad in Baden-Baden"     )

Visually, that's a nice tease, but aurally, I think "Things Are Odd in Baden-Baden" is more euphonious.

I'd go for a second act novelty number, "Baden-Baden to the Bone".

[MBarnum]

TOD:

I don't have any fascination with war at all, but studying WWl and WWll in school was interesting.

Movies about WWlll are rather fascinating, however. But hopefully it is not something I will ever have to live through.

[ChasSmith]

TOD

I'd love to really learn something about the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and both World Wars.  Unfortunately, I've never taken the steps to gain any but the most superficial knowledge of any of these.  That doesn't mean it still won't happen, but the enormity of these subjects is daunting, to say the least.

[ChasSmith]

I neglected to mention the "Cold War".  This is the one we've all "lived", and maybe I love the cultural products (the books, films, etc.) more than the actual issues, but the very presence of it has been enormous.

[elmore3003]

TOD:

I don't have any fascination with war at all, but studying WWl and WWll in school was interesting.

Movies about WWlll are rather fascinating, however. But hopefully it is not something I will ever have to live through.

I'm guessing your chances of living through WW2 are pretty nil, Mikey!

And I am home from therapy!

[ArnoldMBrockman]

And the word of the day is: PECKSNIFFIAN!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE

[Ron Pulliam]

Ear Worm du Jour:

"As Coroner, I must aver,
I've thoroughly examined her,
And she's not only merely dead,
She's really most sincerely dead"

[Jrand74]

The Baden Baden Seed would be a number about the effect of the war on the children....

[Jane]

Had a good flight to Frankfurt. Weather here is fine. Hotel wi fi is very weak making it nearly useless. I'm now in a coffee shop having my usual morning cappuccino. After my severe cold I had my best sleep for 10 days.

I am very envious of your best sleep.

[Jane]

On MR SKEFFINGTON - James Agee in THE NATION:

...it takes her just short of 30 years and two and half hours of playing time to learn, from her patient husband (Claude Rains) that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved" and to prove this point to an audience which, I fear, will be made up mainly of unloved and unlovable women.....  MR SKEFFINGTON is...an endless woman's page meditation on What To Do When Beauty Fades. The implied advice is....hang on to your husband...and count yourself blessed if like Mr Rains, in his old age, he is blinded....

Funny

I still liked the movie and this could have been a man as easily as a woman.  This was excessive vanity.  The acting was a joy to watch.

[Kate]

Good Day all:


I agree with Jane regarding Mr Skeffington!

[Kate]

TOD:


The only thing I am interested in regarding Wars is watching the WW11 movies that are about families and romance.

[Laura]

Good morning. The other day my DH came home from the grocery store with a frozen turkey. We didn't have room for it in the freezer, so it is roasting in the oven. My house smells so good.

[ChasSmith]

Ha!  I remember a Memorial Day turkey dinner that came about for that very reason.

[Jane]

Received word this morning that I've qualified to be part of THIS STUDY at Mayo Clinic.  Acceptance confirms something that I asked my cardiologist about and he kind of blew off.  Time to find a new doc!

I'm impressed you knew to ask this, obviously you have been doing your research.  Will you be going to the clinic in the near future?  Once in the study they may have a doctor they can suggest you use.

[Jrand74]

I agree DR JANE....one of my favorite Bette Davis movies....  And the funny parts were very funny....I guess my biggest problem with some Davis movies are that she never was a great beauty to begin with, so a movie that has men swarming all around her like she was Scarlett O'Hara is a bit much.  But then, maybe that's the point, her personality made her beautiful....

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - I awoke at eight-forty, stayed in bed and fell back asleep and awoke again two hours later.  So, I think that's eight-plus hours.

[Jrand74]

Sleep is good.

[John G.]

Just finished having Giant play in the background while working from home. Enjoyable film and I love the interviews with Carroll Baker, Earl Holliman and the rest.

[Jane]

I agree DR JANE....one of my favorite Bette Davis movies....  And the funny parts were very funny....I guess my biggest problem with some Davis movies are that she never was a great beauty to begin with, so a movie that has men swarming all around her like she was Scarlett O'Hara is a bit much.  But then, maybe that's the point, her personality made her beautiful....

I seen men flock around women I didn't think were great beauties yet they had something about them  leaving the beautiful woman next to them ignored-lol.   It works the other way too.  I've known some great looking men that did nothing for me.

One thing about her not being a great beauty is how well she fell apart after her illness.

I found the psychiatrist annoying.  Keith agreed with his attitude and I said from our perspective it was correct, however, he had just met her and might have been a bit kinder.

[Ginny]

Received word this morning that I've qualified to be part of THIS STUDY at Mayo Clinic.  Acceptance confirms something that I asked my cardiologist about and he kind of blew off.  Time to find a new doc!

I'm impressed you knew to ask this, obviously you have been doing your research.  Will you be going to the clinic in the near future?  Once in the study they may have a doctor they can suggest you use.

A trip to Mayo is not part of the immediate plan, but I'm shopping around for a new cardiologist who doesn't laugh off SCAD (spontaneous coronary artery dissection).

[Jane]

Good luck finding the right doctor.

[Jane]

Ginny have you checked with the Cleveland Clinic if they know doctors in your area?

[Ginny]

No, Jane, but I'm in a SCAD Survivors Facebook group where several women are from Cleveland and have gone to the Clinic.

[Ginny]

Off to do some errands on my way to my evening class - bye for now!

[Charles Pogue]

On MR SKEFFINGTON - James Agee in THE NATION:

...it takes her just short of 30 years and two and half hours of playing time to learn, from her patient husband (Claude Rains) that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved" and to prove this point to an audience which, I fear, will be made up mainly of unloved and unlovable women.....  MR SKEFFINGTON is...an endless woman's page meditation on What To Do When Beauty Fades. The implied advice is....hang on to your husband...and count yourself blessed if like Mr Rains, in his old age, he is blinded....

Funny

I still liked the movie and this could have been a man as easily as a woman.  This was excessive vanity.  The acting was a joy to watch.

I watched this again the other night and it's one of the few Bette Davis movies I can still watch anymore.  Her mannerisms and that odd staccato way of speaking has extremely dated for me over the years, but all that falseness works of the character and for this picture.  But the terrific performance (and he gave so many) is that of the inestimable Claude Rains.  He is so real next to Bette.  Walter Abel also delivers staunch, smooth support.

[Charles Pogue]

Rains, of course, got an Oscar nom for this.  But then so did Bette I believe.