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 on
 MG>> a
 MG>>>> weekend the fully restored Grauman's Egyptian Theater
shows silents
 MG>> on
 MG>>>> Saturdays. There is no place better on Earth to see a
silent 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 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
 RN> Life
 MG>> and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of the house, at home
 RN> I'm
 MG>> reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is a classic, the later a
 RN> 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
 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?

On the rare occasion when that happens I look it up. I have a decent
vocabulary in English and some in German, French and Spanish. Words are
wonderful things and it rubs me wrong when someone uses them incorrectly. I
know that what we call potato chips the Brits call crisps, what they call
biscuits we call cookies, they'd say we're the ones using the words
incorrectly, but that argument will probably never be resolved.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

mgallandt670{at}gmail.com

http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi

"Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high
mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When
people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been
and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full
agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and
ever will be so..."

Golda Meir once said, "There will never be peace until the
Palestinians love their children more than they hate us."

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