The comment section attached to a story is no place for long running arguments. Especially arguments that have been going on for years and have very little to do with the story they are attached to. Thanks.
Hugs,
Erin
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Ah Shucks!
Pooh! You're no fun any more.
Nancy Cole
(Just kidding)
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson
Shucks hell!
"Pooh! You're no fun any more."
Yes she is!
Hey, wait a min...
Hey, wait a minute. Pooh's still a lot of fun. Okay, he is a silly ole bear, but still Pooh, Piglet and Tiggr are a lot of fun.
Anne
Argument threads
The only thing that Pooh wants is hunny.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
I suppose that ...
... the relatively benign ongoing discussion regarding the school story must have turned unexpectedly violent in the night. Sad, really. Sometimes I wish folks could walk the fine line between debate and argument without falling to the Dark Sideâ„¢. I do enjoy the give and take, but i understand the reason why editorial surgery is often warranted to keep the peace. *sigh*
Randa
Don't feel intimidated
Fiction is fiction. One of the fiction writer's jobs is to make people think.
And some debate about what a story means is good. But when threads start wandering into accusations about what someone said in an earlier post, I step in and remove them. That's just my experience of doing this for eleven years. When things cool off and no one is ready to keep things hot, I'll go back and restore the wandering threads. You might find them interesting. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I was born
...under a wandering thread.
Sorry. Gotta sing, gotta dance.
Why do people do that!
That is the worst movie ever made! It makes Heaven's Gate and Istar look like masterpieces!
OK, maybe I'm biased because the first job I had was as an usher at a theater showing that -- thing for three bloody damn months. But if you think it is good, try watching, hearing it three or four times a day, over and over and over.
-And Rex Harrison, and Col. Pickering (who was that guy?) and, probably Hepburn too (but who knows) can sing rings around Eastwood and Lee Marvin combined!!! I used to wait and wait just to hear that Maria song (I still like it) and even the Beans one. It really got to be that painful.
After that, they brought in Darling Lily -- arrrgggh. The music was a lot better, but I still quit.
(did i just date myself? oh, well.)
Paint Your What?
Once again ladies and germs, The Simpsons,
with a fine tribute to a masterpiece
(not to start a thread-argument)
of American cinema:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5-xFenaZI
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
.
classic
thanks! I needed that. :)
not as think as i smart i am
A Bucket of Paint
I lived in Monterey, CA when this movie came out. For nine months, Paint Your Wagon was on the marquee of one of the theaters in town. Finally, four friends and I decided we had better go see it before it finally went away. We had no information about the movie, didn't know who was in it and didn't even know it was a musical.
We were astonished. We loved it. It's so incredibly off the wall! Lee Marvin in a musical? Come on, that's like Robert Mitchum in drag or John Wayne in a bunny suit, right? Never happen. :) It's hilariously improbable. So, we went back the following weekend to see it again!
And it was gone! LOL!
It had been replaced by Sometimes a Great Notion, so we watched that instead. BIG mistake. Good performances, decent dialog, but it's muddled story of Paul Newman and Henry Fonda as a father-and-son pair of lumberjackasses and it's depressing as all hell! Not the same thing as a goofy western musical with Ray Walston and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. LOL!
Hugs,
Erin
P.S. Added: Lee Marvin's recording of Wandering Star (Lerner and Lowe) knocked Let It Be out of its chance to be number 1 UK pop single for two weeks! Being a singer is about being effective with your material, he's effective and it works. He sang in other movies, too, BTW. The arranger, Riddle, on this one deliberately scored it below Marvin's best range to emphasize his growl. - Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
That song
The Scots comedian Stanley Baxter did a spoof, where the growl keeps breaking into harmonious singing, and the director calls in a sequence of people with 'solutions' to spray in his mouth. Ammonia, nitric acid.....