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 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 me.
MG> :)
 
MG>MG>> If it starred Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Lawrence Olivier,
MG> Spencer
MG>MG>> Tracy, et al it is a classic. If it was made after 1949 it's new.
MG> :)
 
MG>MG>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find yourself in Hollywood on
MG> a
MG>MG>> weekend the fully restored Grauman's Egyptian Theater shows silents
MG> on
MG>MG>> Saturdays. There is no place better on Earth to see a silent movie
MG> than
MG>MG>> the Egyptian, built 2 years before the Chinese (which since the
MG> sale is
MG>MG>> renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's what they rightly used to call a
MG> Movie
MG>MG>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have movie star foot and hand prints
MG> like
MG>MG>> the Chinese does, but it has splendor like you've never seen
MG> anywhere.
MG>MG>> During the restoration they refurbished the original pipe 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> Born 12/04/1954. I am intelligent because I read a lot an have much older
MG> siblings who taught me things about their childhoods and parents and
MG> grandparents who taught me things too. When I say I read a lot I mean
MG> that I'm always reading 2 books at a time, right now I'm reading The Life
MG> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of the house, at home I'm
MG> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is a classic, the later a who
MG> dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll start Hunting Eichman. I've read
MG> much on the subject of Eichman and how Mosaad captured him and took him
MG> to Israel for trial, but I've never read this version. Many times I'll
MG> read different books on the same subject to see how each author tells the
MG> tale.
 
What do you do when you come upon a word or group of words in the book(s)
you're reading that you don't know the definition of?
 
 
MG> --
MG> L'Chaim,
MG> Mimi
 
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MG> "Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism"
MG> - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MG> ". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
MG> merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high
MG> mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When
MG> people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
MG> Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been
MG> and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full
MG> agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and
MG> ever will be so..."
 
MG> Golda Meir once said, "There will never be peace until the Palestinians
MG> love their children more than they hate us."
 
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