MG> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
MG>MG>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
MG>MG>>>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
MG>MG>>>>>> Roger Nelson -> Roy Witt wrote:
 
MG>RN>>>>>>> My granddaughter, at the age of 10,
expressed an interest in
MG> the
MG>MG>>>>>> 1951
MG>RN>>>>>>> version and I gave one to her, along
with another classic the
MG>MG>>>>>> critics
MG>RN>>>>>>> bombed (Xanadu).  I loved it.
 
MG>MG>>>>>> Apparently "classic" means
something different to you than to
MG> me.
MG>MG>>>> :)
 
MG>MG>>>>>> If it starred Katherine Hepburn, Clark
Gable, Lawrence Olivier,
MG>MG>>>> Spencer
MG>MG>>>>>> Tracy, et al it is a classic. If it was
made after 1949 it's
MG> new.
MG>MG>>>> :)
 
MG>MG>>>>>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find
yourself in Hollywood
MG>MG>> on
MG>MG>>>> a
MG>MG>>>>>> weekend the fully restored Grauman's
Egyptian Theater shows
MG>MG>> silents
MG>MG>>>> on
MG>MG>>>>>> Saturdays. There is no place better on
Earth to see a silent
MG>MG>> movie
MG>MG>>>> than
MG>MG>>>>>> the Egyptian, built 2 years before the
Chinese (which since the
MG>MG>>>> sale is
MG>MG>>>>>> renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's what they
rightly used to call
MG> a
MG>MG>>>> Movie
MG>MG>>>>>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have movie
star foot and hand
MG> prints
MG>MG>>>> like
MG>MG>>>>>> the Chinese does, but it has splendor like
you've never seen
MG>MG>>>> anywhere.
MG>MG>>>>>> During the restoration they refurbished
the original pipe
MG> organ.
MG>RN>>>>> Going to
MG>MG>>>>>> the Egyptian or the Chinese is the only
reason I ever go to Los
MG>RN>>>>> Angeles.
MG>MG>>>>>> :)
 
MG>RN>>>>> You must be older than I am.
 
MG>MG>>>> Born 12/04/1954. I am intelligent because I read a
lot an have
MG> much
MG>RN>>> older
MG>MG>>>> siblings who taught me things about their
childhoods and parents
MG>MG>> and
MG>MG>>>> grandparents who taught me things too. When I say
I read a lot I
MG>MG>> mean
MG>MG>>>> that I'm always reading 2 books at a time, right
now I'm reading
MG>MG>> The
MG>RN>>> Life
MG>MG>>>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of
the house, at
MG>MG>> home
MG>RN>>> I'm
MG>MG>>>> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is a classic, the
MG> later
MG>MG>> a
MG>RN>>> who
MG>MG>>>> dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll start Hunting
Eichman. I've
MG>MG>> read
MG>MG>>>> much on the subject of Eichman and how Mosaad
captured him and
MG> took
MG>MG>> him
MG>MG>>>> to Israel for trial, but I've never read this
version. Many times
MG>MG>> I'll
MG>MG>>>> read different books on the same subject to see
how each author
MG>RN>>> tells the
MG>MG>>>> tale.
 
MG>RN>>> What do you do when you come upon a word or group of
words in the
MG>RN>>> book(s) you're reading that you don't know the definition of?
 
MG>MG>> On the rare occasion when that happens I look it up. I have a
MG> decent
MG>MG>> vocabulary in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words
MG> are
MG>MG>> wonderful things and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them
MG>RN> incorrectly.
 
MG>RN> We were encouraged in grade school to read the dictionary, which
MG> some
MG>RN> people like to call a lexicon.
 
MG>MG>> I know that what we call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what
MG> they
MG>MG>> call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using the
MG>RN> words
MG>MG>> incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be resolved.
 
MG>RN> To a Jewish person, a slice of cake at a gentile restaurant is a
MG> cookie.
 
MG> Well, no, actually it's called not kosher.  :)
 
I'm told by someone whom I admire and is also a rabbi that it is a cookie.
 
 
MG> --
MG> L'Chaim,
MG> Mimi
 
MG> mgallandt670{at}gmail.com
 
MG> http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi
 
MG> "Arbeit macht frei" is the most villainous lie of all time.
 
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