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 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 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 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 a
 MG>>>> Movie
 MG>>>>>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have movie star
foot and hand 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 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 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 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 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 decent
 MG>> vocabulary in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words are
 MG>> wonderful things and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them
 RN> incorrectly.

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

 MG>> I know that what we call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what they
 MG>> call biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using 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 cookie.

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

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi

"Arbeit macht frei" is the most villainous lie of all time.

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