RW> 13 Jun 09 07:51, Roger Nelson wrote to Mimi Gallandt:
 
 
RW>MG>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
RW>MG>> MG>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
RW>MG>> MG>>>> Roger Nelson -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> Roger Nelson -> Roy Witt wrote:
 
RW>MG>> RN>>>>>>> My granddaughter, at the
age of 10, expressed an interest
RW>MG>> in the
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> 1951
RW>MG>> RN>>>>>>> version and I gave one to
her, along with another classic
RW>MG>> the
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> critics
RW>MG>> RN>>>>>>> bombed (Xanadu).  I loved it.
 
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> Apparently "classic"
means something different to you than
RW>MG>> to me.
RW>MG>> MG>>>> :)
 
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> If it starred Katherine
Hepburn, Clark Gable, Lawrence
RW>MG>> Olivier,
RW>MG>> MG>>>> Spencer
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> Tracy, et al it is a classic.
If it was made after 1949
RW>MG>> it's new.
RW>MG>> MG>>>> :)
 
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> In the unlikely chance that you
ever find yourself in
RW>MG>> Hollywood
RW>MG>> MG>> on
RW>MG>> MG>>>> a
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> weekend the fully restored
Grauman's Egyptian Theater
RW> shows
RW>MG>> MG>> silents
RW>MG>> MG>>>> on
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> Saturdays. There is no place
better on Earth to see a
RW>MG>> silent
RW>MG>> MG>> movie
RW>MG>> MG>>>> than
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> the Egyptian, built 2 years
before the Chinese (which
RW> since
RW>MG>> the
RW>MG>> MG>>>> sale is
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> renamed Grauman's Chinese).
It's what they rightly used to
RW>MG>> call a
RW>MG>> MG>>>> Movie
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't
have movie star foot and hand
RW>MG>> prints
RW>MG>> MG>>>> like
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> the Chinese does, but it has
splendor like you've never
RW>MG>> seen
RW>MG>> MG>>>> anywhere.
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> During the restoration they
refurbished the original pipe
RW>MG>> organ.
RW>MG>> RN>>>>> Going to
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> the Egyptian or the Chinese is
the only reason I ever go
RW> to
RW>MG>> Los
RW>MG>> RN>>>>> Angeles.
RW>MG>> MG>>>>>> :)
 
RW>MG>> RN>>>>> You must be older than I am.
 
RW>MG>> MG>>>> Born 12/04/1954. I am intelligent
because I read a lot an
RW>MG>> have much
RW>MG>> RN>>> older
RW>MG>> MG>>>> siblings who taught me things about
their childhoods and
RW>MG>> parents
RW>MG>> MG>> and
RW>MG>> MG>>>> grandparents who taught me things too.
When I say I read a
RW>MG>> lot I
RW>MG>> MG>> mean
RW>MG>> MG>>>> that I'm always reading 2 books at a
time, right now I'm
RW>MG>> reading
RW>MG>> MG>> The
RW>MG>> RN>>> Life
RW>MG>> MG>>>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when
I'm out of the house,
RW>MG>> at
RW>MG>> MG>> home
RW>MG>> RN>>> I'm
RW>MG>> MG>>>> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The
former is a classic, the
RW>MG>> later
RW>MG>> MG>> a
RW>MG>> RN>>> who
RW>MG>> MG>>>> dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll
start Hunting Eichman.
RW>MG>> I've
RW>MG>> MG>> read
RW>MG>> MG>>>> much on the subject of Eichman and how
Mosaad captured him
RW>MG>> and took
RW>MG>> MG>> him
RW>MG>> MG>>>> to Israel for trial, but I've never
read this version. Many
RW>MG>> times
RW>MG>> MG>> I'll
RW>MG>> MG>>>> read different books on the same
subject to see how each
RW>MG>> author
RW>MG>> RN>>> tells the
RW>MG>> MG>>>> tale.
 
RW>MG>> RN>>> What do you do when you come upon a word or
group of words in
RW>MG>> the
RW>MG>> RN>>> book(s) you're reading that you don't know
the definition of?
 
RW>MG>> MG>> On the rare occasion when that happens I look
it up. I have a
RW>MG>> decent
RW>MG>> MG>> vocabulary in English and some in German,
French and Spanish.
RW>MG>> Words are
RW>MG>> MG>> wonderful things and it rubs me wrong when
someone uses them
RW>MG>> RN> incorrectly.
 
RW>MG>> RN> We were encouraged in grade school to read the dictionary,
RW> which
RW>MG>> some
RW>MG>> RN> people like to call a lexicon.
 
RW>MG>> MG>> I know that what we call potato chips the Brits
call crisps,
RW>MG>> what they
RW>MG>> MG>> call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're
the ones using
RW>MG>> the
RW>MG>> RN> words
RW>MG>> MG>> incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be
RW> resolved.
 
RW>MG>> RN> To a Jewish person, a slice of cake at a gentile
restaurant is
RW> a
RW>MG>> cookie.
 
RW>MG>> Well, no, actually it's called not kosher.  :)
 
RW>RN> I'm told by someone whom I admire and is also a rabbi that it is a
RW>RN> cookie.
 
RW> The best part is; we get to keep those cookies to ourselves.
 
Especially the German chocolate ones.
 
 
RW>MG>> --
RW>MG>> L'Chaim,
RW>MG>> Mimi
 
RW>MG>> mgallandt670{at}gmail.com
 
RW>MG>> http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi
 
RW>MG>> "Arbeit macht frei" is the most villainous lie
of all time.
 
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RW> the victory itself.
 
 
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Regards,
 
Roger

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