13 Jun 09 07:51, Roger Nelson wrote to Mimi Gallandt:


 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
 MG>> in the
 MG>> MG>>>>>> 1951
 MG>> RN>>>>>>> version and I gave one to her,
along with another classic
 MG>> the
 MG>> MG>>>>>> critics
 MG>> RN>>>>>>> bombed (Xanadu).  I loved it.

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

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

 MG>> MG>>>>>> In the unlikely chance that you ever
find yourself in
 MG>> 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
 MG>> silent
 MG>> MG>> movie
 MG>> MG>>>> than
 MG>> MG>>>>>> the Egyptian, built 2 years before
the Chinese (which since
 MG>> the
 MG>> MG>>>> sale is
 MG>> MG>>>>>> renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's
what they rightly used to
 MG>> call 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
 MG>> 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
 MG>> 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
 MG>> have much
 MG>> RN>>> older
 MG>> MG>>>> siblings who taught me things about their
childhoods and
 MG>> parents
 MG>> MG>> and
 MG>> MG>>>> grandparents who taught me things too. When
I say I read a
 MG>> lot I
 MG>> MG>> mean
 MG>> MG>>>> that I'm always reading 2 books at a time,
right now I'm
 MG>> reading
 MG>> MG>> The
 MG>> RN>>> Life
 MG>> MG>>>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm
out of the house,
 MG>> 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.
 MG>> I've
 MG>> MG>> read
 MG>> MG>>>> much on the subject of Eichman and how
Mosaad captured him
 MG>> and took
 MG>> MG>> him
 MG>> MG>>>> to Israel for trial, but I've never read
this version. Many
 MG>> times
 MG>> MG>> I'll
 MG>> MG>>>> read different books on the same subject to
see how each
 MG>> 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
 MG>> 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.
 MG>> Words 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,
 MG>> what they
 MG>> MG>> call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using
 MG>> 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.  :)

 RN> I'm told by someone whom I admire and is also a rabbi that it is a
 RN> cookie.

The best part is; we get to keep those cookies to ourselves.

 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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