12 Jun 09 18:26, Mimi Gallandt wrote to Roger Nelson:

 MG> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 MG>>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 MG>>>>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 MG>>>>>>> Roger Nelson -> Roy Witt wrote:

 RN>>>>>>>> My granddaughter, at the age of 10,
expressed an interest in
 RN>>>>>>>> the
 MG>>>>>>> 1951
 RN>>>>>>>> version and I gave one to her, along
with another classic the
 MG>>>>>>> critics
 RN>>>>>>>> bombed (Xanadu).  I loved it.

 MG>>>>>>> Apparently "classic" means
something different to you than to
 MG>>>>>>> me.
 MG>>>>> :)

 MG>>>>>>> If it starred Katherine Hepburn, Clark
Gable, Lawrence Olivier,
 MG>>>>> Spencer
 MG>>>>>>> Tracy, et al it is a classic. If it was
made after 1949 it's
 MG>>>>>>> new.
 MG>>>>> :)

 MG>>>>>>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find
yourself in Hollywood
 MG>>> on
 MG>>>>> a
 MG>>>>>>> weekend the fully restored Grauman's
Egyptian Theater shows
 MG>>> silents
 MG>>>>> on
 MG>>>>>>> Saturdays. There is no place better on
Earth to see a silent
 MG>>> movie
 MG>>>>> than
 MG>>>>>>> the Egyptian, built 2 years before the
Chinese (which since the
 MG>>>>> sale is
 MG>>>>>>> renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's what they
rightly used to call
 MG>>>>>>> a
 MG>>>>> Movie
 MG>>>>>>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have movie
star foot and hand
 MG>>>>>>> prints
 MG>>>>> like
 MG>>>>>>> the Chinese does, but it has splendor like
you've never seen
 MG>>>>> anywhere.
 MG>>>>>>> During the restoration they refurbished the
original pipe
 MG>>>>>>> organ.
 RN>>>>>> Going to
 MG>>>>>>> the Egyptian or the Chinese is the only
reason I ever go to Los
 RN>>>>>> Angeles.
 MG>>>>>>> :)

 RN>>>>>> You must be older than I am.

 MG>>>>> Born 12/04/1954. I am intelligent because I read a
lot an have
 MG>>>>> much
 RN>>>> older
 MG>>>>> siblings who taught me things about their
childhoods and parents
 MG>>> and
 MG>>>>> grandparents who taught me things too. When I say I
read a lot I
 MG>>> mean
 MG>>>>> that I'm always reading 2 books at a time, right
now I'm reading
 MG>>> The
 RN>>>> Life
 MG>>>>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of
the house, at
 MG>>> home
 RN>>>> I'm
 MG>>>>> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is a classic, the
 MG>>>>> later
 MG>>> a
 RN>>>> who
 MG>>>>> dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll start Hunting
Eichman. I've
 MG>>> read
 MG>>>>> much on the subject of Eichman and how Mosaad
captured him and
 MG>>>>> took
 MG>>> him
 MG>>>>> to Israel for trial, but I've never read this
version. Many times
 MG>>> I'll
 MG>>>>> read different books on the same subject to see how
each author
 RN>>>> tells the
 MG>>>>> tale.

 RN>>>> What do you do when you come upon a word or group of words in the
 RN>>>> book(s) you're reading that you don't know the definition of?

 MG>>> On the rare occasion when that happens I look it up. I have a
 MG>>> decent vocabulary in English and some in German, French and
 MG>>> Spanish. Words are wonderful things and it rubs me wrong when
 MG>>> someone uses them
 RN>> incorrectly.

 RN>> We were encouraged in grade school to read the dictionary, which
 RN>> some people like to call a lexicon.

 MG>>> I know that what we call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what
 MG>>> they call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using
 MG>>> the
 RN>> words
 MG>>> incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be resolved.

 RN>> To a Jewish person, a slice of cake at a gentile restaurant is a
 RN>> cookie.

 MG> Well, no, actually it's called not kosher.  :)

 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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Sheesh...you quoted all the above for a one liner? That's sweet...


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