Topic: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CHRISTMAS KIND (Read 6439 times)

TCB · « **Reply #30 on:** December 23, 2016, 01:36:01 AM »

Quote from: George on December 23, 2016, 01:32:57 AM

Quote from: TCB on December 23, 2016, 01:21:40 AM
But you can sell back the sick leave when you retire, can't you?

No. That's why this is significant. It's technically better than the state who can cash in their sick leave at 25%, right? This is essentially at 33%.

Oh, I see.

TCB · « **Reply #31 on:** December 23, 2016, 01:51:24 AM »

Good night, George.

George · « **Reply #32 on:** December 23, 2016, 02:00:28 AM »

Quote from: TCB on December 23, 2016, 01:51:24 AM

Good night, George.

Good night, Tom.

George · « **Reply #33 on:** December 23, 2016, 02:04:57 AM »

PAGE TWO AT 2:00 a.m.!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:50:21 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:50:52 AM »

FIRST - after the West Coast Boyz - but on Page 2!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #36 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:51:48 AM »

Just enjoyed the loveliest Christmas card from DR Elmore. Many thanks to you, sir!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:52:29 AM »

Looking forward to BK's report on that MoFi SACD. Did it cost a pretty penny?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:54:21 AM »

Got my friends' annual Christmas Eve Eve holiday bash to attend tonight. It's always good company, and the number of wonderful foodstuffs and drinkstuffs is always astounding.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #39 on:** December 23, 2016, 04:55:30 AM »

Coffee!

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:00:01 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #41 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:00:12 AM »

Happy birthday, William F. Orr!

John G. · « **Reply #42 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:01:15 AM »

Happy Noche de los Rabanos (Night of the Radishes) to all who celebrate! (That would likely be just me.)

Laura · « **Reply #43 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:18:43 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #44 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:19:02 AM »

Happy Birthday, William Orr. And welcome home!

Laura · « **Reply #45 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:20:26 AM »

I had a blood pressure scare yesterday. The dental hygienist took a reading and it was scary high. The doctor's office got me in right away and I am on medication for it for the first time ever. I was afraid I was going to be sent to the ER, which I did not want at all.

Laura · « **Reply #46 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:28:29 AM »

I'm up for celebrating radishes, John. What do we do?

Michael · « **Reply #47 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:29:52 AM »

Good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #48 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:30:30 AM »

half day work today and tomorrow and five day mini staycation

Michael · « **Reply #49 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:30:51 AM »

Happy birthday to William

Michael · « **Reply #50 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:35:07 AM »

I saw Close Encounters at a sneak preview in, if memory serves me correctly, 70mm and 6 track stereo. And I remember that m "socks were knocked off" during the finally. One of the best films.

Michael · « **Reply #51 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:36:04 AM »

John Williams is one of my favorite composers and Close Encounters and Stars Wars were played over and over on my record player.

Michael · « **Reply #52 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:39:21 AM »

I never liked the extra scenes like the ship in the desert because it was repetative going into the spaceship scene was unnecessary.

It also gave the suggestion that the alien that comes out at the end was Roy Neary transformed. Which I never even thought of when I saw the original version.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:40:23 AM »

I am 99% sure I saw CLOSE ENCOUNTERS at Loew's Paramount (now El Capitan). I like to leave that one percent for the times my memory inexplicably fails me on these things, but I'll be shocked, shocked, if BK or anyone says this one isn't right.

Druxy · « **Reply #54 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:53:51 AM »

Last night. we started watching BARRICADE, which I'd recorded off of TCM.

It's a Western remake of THE SEA WOLF, but instead of taking place on the ocean, it's set in a remote mine of some sort. Raymond Massey plays the Edward G. Robinson role, Dane Clark does the John Garfield part and Ruth Roman stands in for Ida Lupino.

It was really a terrible picture and we turned it off after about a half hour or so. But, the Technicolor was gorgeous.

Back in the 1970s when I was writing my book on movie remakes, I interviewed the writer, William Sackhiem, and he said "To this very day, I have absolutely no idea why they called it BARRICADE."

Druxy · « **Reply #55 on:** December 23, 2016, 05:54:58 AM »

TOD:

No idea what we will watch this weekend. Nothing at RedBox that I care to see.

John G. · « **Reply #56 on:** December 23, 2016, 06:39:45 AM »

Laura, you get together with people you love and celebrate the blessings you've received and the year's harvest. That's about it for the real celebration in Oaxaca. They supposedly parade into town with their prized radishes, but they don't eat them. I eat them. I made a radish salad this morning to take to a party. Just sliced diakon with salt and lime.

John G. · « **Reply #57 on:** December 23, 2016, 06:40:38 AM »

Very sorry to read about your blood pressure scare, Laura. Hope everything is back to normal soon.

John G. · « **Reply #58 on:** December 23, 2016, 06:42:32 AM »

I don't know if I'll get to watch anything this weekend. Am still trying to listen to some Christmas music. This morning it was The John Waters Christmas Album. A trash classic.

Jane · « **Reply #59 on:** December 23, 2016, 06:42:35 AM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR WILLIAM ORR! 🎂

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