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[Hello Goodbye]

I agree Pilgrim 

It's a great film, especially as JW & Jimmy Stewart didn't like each other.

Yeah, Kev, and let's not forget Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance...





Alright, dude.  This time, right between the eyes

[Hello Goodbye]

Lee Marvin was a brilliant and talented actor.  Just as he was the right choice to play Liberty Valance, he was the right choice to play Kid Shelleen in the comedy western Cat Balou three years later.  He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in that motion picture...

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[Hello Goodbye]

Jane Fonda played Cat Balou...





No double entendre there either, huh Kathy? 

[blmeanie]

My wife and I saw Shawshank Redemption ...wait for it...for the first time over the weekend.  Good movie, had seen plenty of scenes over the years without seeing the movie

[tkitna]

Shazam Fury of the Gods

Dont, just dont.

[Normandie]

My wife and I saw Shawshank Redemption ...wait for it...for the first time over the weekend.  Good movie, had seen plenty of scenes over the years without seeing the movie

I love that movie! I wish, kind of like with Beatles songs, that I could go back and watch it for the first time again. Have you or your wife read the Stephen King short story on which it is based, blmeanie?

[blmeanie]

I love that movie! I wish, kind of like with Beatles songs, that I could go back and watch it for the first time again. Have you or your wife read the Stephen King short story on which it is based, blmeanie?

no, will try to look it up, thanks

[Hello Goodbye]

1776

It was a 1969 Broadway musical drama and a 1972 motion picture about the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. No one took minutes at the Second Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia but memoirs of the delegates were used to reconstruct the events and dialogue...

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[Normandie]

^^^

Oh, boy, does that one bring back memories, Barry! A good friend of mine is a huge fan of Benjamin Franklin; she did her entire dissertation on him. She persuaded me and another friend to watch it with her in her dorm room on July 4, 1993. I didn't care for it, but I do respect that it is a good film. It just wasn't t my taste.

I've been sticking more to limited series lately, but I did just see 59 Middle Lane, a documentary that gives the back story on the adopted twins of murdered financier Ted Ammon, and Dallas Buyers Club, which was phenomenally acted.

[Hello Goodbye]

^

I appreciated the research done to script the play and the movie.  I enjoy watching the film on DVD every year around this time...the anniversary of the framing and signing of our Declaration of Independence.

Yes, Benjamin Franklin played an important role in all of this.  He was an elder statesman at the time and helped greatly with the compromises that had to be made to get a unanimous vote to sign the document.

But my favorite was Patrick Henry, "The Firebrand of the Revolution."  For more than a decade prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he heroically spoke in favor of a revolution...





"Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, His Cromwell — And George the Third" — ("Treason!" cried the Speaker — "Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house). Henry faltered not for an instant, but rising to a loftier attitude, concluded thusly - "may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it."

      Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Speech delivered to the Virginia House of Burgesses  May 29, 1765


He was an orator of the highest caliber, best known for...

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March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia

[Moogmodule]

Took my young guy to see the new Spiderverse movie. Very clever and the animation is very impressive. Maybe it was a bit much though. When I got up at the end of the film I felt like I’d been on some dizzying roller coaster and found myself using the wall to hold myself up. 

[Normandie]

^^^

   That reminds me of a video game my son used to love. It let you build roller coasters and then "send" a cart full of people on the ride. What he loved
best—typical teenage boy—was that you could leave the roller coaster unfinished, and the cart (still full of people) would go sailing off into oblivion. He tricked me into watching his roller coasters a few times ("I promise this one ends fine!") before I finally caught on and would refuse to watch.

[Hello Goodbye]

Dick   1999

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Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams) were a very plausible Deep Throat.

And Dan Hedaya played a very convincing Nixon...

[Hello Goodbye]

^

Great period soundtrack too...

ABC  Jackson 5

Popcorn  Stan Free

Rock Your Baby  George McCrae

Brother Louie  Stories

Coconut  Harry Nilsson

Lady Marmalade LaBelle

Hooked on a Feeling  Blue Swede

Baby I'm a Want You  Bread

Love's Theme  Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra

Mr. Big Stuff  Jean Knight

Crocodile Rock  Elton John

Rock On  David Essex

The Loco-Motion  Grand Funk Railroad

Come And Get Your Love  Redbone

I've Seen All Good People  Your Move   Yes

Why Can't We Live Together  Timmy Thomas

You're So Vain  Carly Simon

Dancing Queen  ABBA

Dancing Queen  Sixpence None the Richer

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[Normandie]

I've been going with a weather/temperature-related horror theme while I pack up in preparation to move. Tonight was 247°F (119° [about people who get stuck in a sauna]), then Frozen (not the Disney version—the one about people stuck on a chairlift).     

[Euan Buchan]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

[Normandie]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Great movie! One of my favorites.

[Normandie]

To Leslie. An excellent film, I thought. Not a good choice for me, but still a good movie IMO.

[Hello Goodbye]

All The President's Men

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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

     Richard M. Nixon   Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff   9 August 1974

[Normandie]

All The President's Men

That movie prompts the best memories for me, Barry! I saw it in August of 1990 with a fellow journalism student. We'd just arrived and were staggered by the heat and humidity. (August in mid-Missouri is brutal.) Neither of us were used to the heat, me being from NY and him from PA. So we stayed inside the first Saturday watching this movie. A perfect way to start journalism school. 

And a few weeks later, continuing the journalism theme, we went to see His Girl Friday, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Such good memories.