11 Jun 09 09:49, Mimi Gallandt wrote to Roger Nelson:

 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 Tracy, et al it is a classic. If it was made after 1949
 MG>>> it's new.  :)

 MG>>> In the unlikely chance that you ever find yourself in Hollywood on
 MG>>> a weekend the fully restored Grauman's Egyptian Theater shows
 MG>>> silents on Saturdays. There is no place better on Earth to see a
 MG>>> silent movie than the Egyptian, built 2 years before the Chinese
 MG>>> (which since the sale is renamed Grauman's Chinese). It's what they
 MG>>> rightly used to call a Movie Palace. The Egyptian doesn't have
 MG>>> movie star foot and hand prints like the Chinese does, but it has
 MG>>> splendor like you've never seen anywhere. During the restoration
 MG>>> 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

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Enough said?


 MG> because I read a lot an have much
 MG> older siblings who taught me things about their childhoods and
 MG> parents and grandparents who taught me things too. When I say I read
 MG> a lot I mean that I'm always reading 2 books at a time, right now I'm
 MG> reading The Life and Misadventure of Moll Flanders when I'm out of
 MG> the house, at home I'm reading Stuart Woods Dead Eyes. The former is
 MG> a classic, the later a who dun it. When I finish Dead Eyes I'll start
 MG> Hunting Eichman. I've read much on the subject of Eichman and how
 MG> Mosaad captured him and took him to Israel for trial, but I've never
 MG> read this version. Many times I'll read different books on the same
 MG> subject to see how each author tells the tale.

 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
 MG> high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green
 MG> earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's
 MG> own truth. 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
 MG> this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so..."

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

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