Topic: THE BROTHERS ACT (Read 8497 times)

John G. · « **Reply #90 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:06:48 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 24, 2022, 07:05:23 PM

Then we went to our favorite homemade ice cream place

You had my attention before. Now you really have it.

John G. · « **Reply #91 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:07:01 PM »

Four!

vixmom · « **Reply #92 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:07:08 PM »

It’s been so hot here that the pool water felt like bath water

vixmom · « **Reply #93 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:07:42 PM »

It was lovely

vixmom · « **Reply #94 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:08:05 PM »

Then after a shower I ran out to pick up a few things

vixmom · « **Reply #95 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:08:24 PM »

Then home to make some dinner

vixmom · « **Reply #96 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:08:35 PM »

We had hamburgers

vixmom · « **Reply #97 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:09:43 PM »

Quote from: John G. on July 24, 2022, 07:06:48 PM

Quote from: vixmom on July 24, 2022, 07:05:23 PM
Then we went to our favorite homemade ice cream place

You had my attention before. Now you really have it.

Vixdad had cherry vanilla in a homemade waffle cone bowl

vixmom · « **Reply #98 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:10:20 PM »

WFO opted for maple walnut with wet walnuts topping

vixmom · « **Reply #99 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:10:45 PM »

I was still pretty stuffed even though I only ate half my French toast

vixmom · « **Reply #100 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:11:19 PM »

( I brought the other half home for tomorrow’s breakfast)

vixmom · « **Reply #101 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:11:58 PM »

So I just had a small bowl of heath bar crunch ice cream

John G. · « **Reply #102 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:12:15 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on July 24, 2022, 07:10:45 PM

I was still pretty stuffed even though I only ate half my French toast

So you only had two scoops?

vixmom · « **Reply #103 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:12:39 PM »

Quote from: John G. on July 24, 2022, 07:12:15 PM

Quote from: vixmom on July 24, 2022, 07:10:45 PM
I was still pretty stuffed even though I only ate half my French toast

So you only had two scoops?

Yep

vixmom · « **Reply #104 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:12:54 PM »

Exactly

John G. · « **Reply #105 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:13:10 PM »

I see my answer.

John G. · « **Reply #106 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:32:28 PM »

I'm finally getting around to Spencer. I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. Thank you, KevinH, for the recommendation.

I should have known that anything with Timothy Spall and Sally Hawkins would please me, but I'm also fascinated by Kristin Stewart's performance. She's outstanding.

John G. · « **Reply #107 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:34:14 PM »

Today I finished a book I really did not enjoy: Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka. He had wanted it burned by his death, and, well, maybe his wishes should have been honored. This was a not-entertaining spoof of Horatio Alger novels. Depressing from start to finish.

John G. · « **Reply #108 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:34:38 PM »

So why did I finish it? I don't know. The Kafka label?

John G. · « **Reply #109 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:35:57 PM »

I'm now back to John Waters' Liarmouth. It's so raw that I don't want to read it at work.

John G. · « **Reply #110 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:37:03 PM »

I now have The Ghost and Mrs. Muir to enjoy. Maybe I'll start that in a day or two.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #111 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:47:10 PM »

Well, it's been a day.

The best part of the day was my weekly Zoom chat with other film music and film lovers. The talk isn't always about film-related stuff, though. Sometimes it's esoteric about ballet or symphonies or British TV or politics, here and abroad.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #112 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:49:10 PM »

Today, we discussed films or TV shows we each may have been in.

Quite a few of us have been an extra, or more than an extra, in some film project or other.

My claim to fame (not really) is an appearance in the movie "F.I.S.T." It's not a clear image of me, but I know it's me. And I appear in a freeze frame where I am directly over Sylvester Stallone's right shoulder.

Ah, the infamy!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #113 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:49:26 PM »

I was paid for my work, too.

$25.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #114 on:** July 24, 2022, 07:55:54 PM »

Last night, I watched "Rosemary's Baby".

It was my umpteenth viewing, but it has been a few years since I last watched it.

I really love this film...the cast, the production design, the music...everything. It truly takes me back to the late 60s, yet seems quite timeless to me.

One of today's Zoom chatters asked me how I felt it holds up. I told him it's just as good today as it was back then. He said he only recently saw it and thought it was quite dated. That meant he thought it seemed like late 60s-early 70s to him. That, I told him, is exactly what it was and will always be for me, too. Then he said he guessed he had seen so many films that followed this one that it seemed "derivative." I assured him it was not that at the time, just as "The Exorcist" was a one-of-a-kind when it was made.

John G. · « **Reply #115 on:** July 24, 2022, 08:07:09 PM »

Bob Rafelson has died. So has Mexican culinary explorer Diana Kennedy.

John G. · « **Reply #116 on:** July 24, 2022, 08:08:04 PM »

I didn't know that Rafelson had directed James Caan as Philip Marlowe in a movie called Poodle Springs. It's on YouTube. I'll have to give it a watch.

John G. · « **Reply #117 on:** July 24, 2022, 08:16:41 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on July 24, 2022, 07:49:10 PM

Today, we discussed films or TV shows we each may have been in.

Quite a few of us have been an extra, or more than an extra, in some film project or other.

My claim to fame (not really) is an appearance in the movie "F.I.S.T." It's not a clear image of me, but I know it's me. And I appear in a freeze frame where I am directly over Sylvester Stallone's right shoulder.

Ah, the infamy!

I was an extra in the movie Bernie with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. I was also an extra in Sylvester, named after Stallone. But it was a horse movie with Melissa Gilbert, Richard Farnsworth and Constance Towers.

John G. · « **Reply #118 on:** July 24, 2022, 08:17:54 PM »

I'm beginning to fade.

John G. · « **Reply #119 on:** July 24, 2022, 08:18:13 PM »

I'll have to finish Spencer tomorrow.

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