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 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>MG>>>> If it starred Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable,
Lawrence Olivier,
MG>MG>> Spencer
MG>MG>>>> Tracy, et al it is a classic. If it was made after
1949 it's new.
MG>MG>> :)
 
MG>MG>>>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find yourself
in Hollywood
MG> on
MG>MG>> a
MG>MG>>>> weekend the fully restored Grauman's Egyptian Theater shows
MG> silents
MG>MG>> on
MG>MG>>>> Saturdays. There is no place better on Earth to see a silent
MG> movie
MG>MG>> than
MG>MG>>>> the Egyptian, built 2 years before the Chinese
(which since the
MG>MG>> sale is
MG>MG>>>> renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's what they rightly
used to call a
MG>MG>> Movie
MG>MG>>>> Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have movie star foot
and hand prints
MG>MG>> like
MG>MG>>>> the Chinese does, but it has splendor like you've never seen
MG>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>MG>> Born 12/04/1954. I am intelligent because I read a lot an have much
MG>RN> older
MG>MG>> siblings who taught me things about their childhoods and parents
MG> and
MG>MG>> grandparents who taught me things too. When I say I read a lot I
MG> mean
MG>MG>> that I'm always reading 2 books at a time, right now I'm reading
MG> The
MG>RN> Life
MG>MG>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of the house, at
MG> home
MG>RN> I'm
MG>MG>> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is a classic, the later
MG> a
MG>RN> who
MG>MG>> dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll start Hunting Eichman. I've
MG> read
MG>MG>> much on the subject of Eichman and how Mosaad captured him and took
MG> him
MG>MG>> to Israel for trial, but I've never read this version. Many times
MG> I'll
MG>MG>> read different books on the same subject to see how each 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 the
MG>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 incorrectly.
 
We were encouraged in grade school to read the dictionary, which some
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 words
MG> incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be resolved.
 
To a Jewish person, a slice of cake at a gentile restaurant is a cookie.
 
 
MG> --
MG> L'Chaim,
MG> Mimi
 
MG> mgallandt670{at}gmail.com
 
MG> http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi
 
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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