Nichole is great! Did you ever see 'Dead Calm'? Creepy film.
One of my all-time favs!
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No one has mentioned Tom Hanks. His ability to morph into different characters, whether it's comedy or something as serious as 'Philadelphia' or 'The Road to Perdition' puts him right up there as a great actor. IMHO.
I've reach TH saturation, too. He used to be one of my favorite comedy actors (Busom Buddies, Bachelor Party), but ever since Philadelphia, his tragic and/or pathos-dripping everyman have left me cold. I didn't think Tom could do anything worse than Forrest Dumb, but he managed with the completly ridiculous Perdition and the eye-rolling Castaway.
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:38:52 GMT, "Jack Schidt®" <[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:38:52 GMT, "Jack Schidt®" <[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:
~ ~"notbob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message ~news:[email hidden]... ~> ~> Just sittin' here drinking Manhattan's, watching Seven Samurai. ~> ~> Bonzai! ~> ~> nb ~ ~You woke me up just to tell me THAT? Feh, cabron! 😄 ~ ~Jack Sominex ~ Welcome back Jack! Y'know that bookstore just off the highway in the yellow building in Mystic? It moved up my way, and has a whole room devoted to cookbooks.
maxine in ri
Hiya Maxine and that's good news! I wonder what took its place in Mystic. Dontellmecasinostuff.
On Sat 11 Jun 2005 09:56:29a, The Cook wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>Most of these films had scenes of elaborate meals and at least one man >or woman character who had indulged in too much alcohol. Everybody >drank and smoked, which was considered very cool. Remember The Man >Who Came To Dinner?
We put on The Man Who Came to Dinner as the senior class play a couple of generations ago.
It's a very funny play.
I would probably appreciate it more now than I did then. --
We saw it on Broadway as a high school field trip. I thought then it was hysterical. In middle school we saw Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman at Lincoln Center.
Nichole is great! Did you ever see 'Dead Calm'? Creepy film.
One of my all-time favs!
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No one has mentioned Tom Hanks. His ability to morph into different characters, whether it's comedy or something as serious as 'Philadelphia' or 'The Road to Perdition' puts him right up there as a great actor. IMHO.
I've reach TH saturation, too. He used to be one of my favorite comedy actors (Busom Buddies, Bachelor Party), but ever since Philadelphia, his tragic and/or pathos-dripping everyman have left me cold. I didn't think Tom could do anything worse than Forrest Dumb, but he managed with the completly ridiculous Perdition and the eye-rolling Castaway.
nb ...not big on tragedy
Castaway wasn't his best film, IMO. 'BIG' back in 1988 was fun.
I loved him in 'Forrest Gump', 'Philadelphia', 'The Green Mile' and 'The Road to Perdition'. You may not be big on tragedy but the "Irish" mafia was a very real thing back then and for all I know still is. 'The Ladykillers' was an odd film and I think he only did it to have some fun. It was very annoying to hear him do that sort of Bugs Bunny suck through his teeth laugh.
I'll be interested in seeing him in 'The Da Vinci Code' which is due out in 2006.
Nichole is great! Did you ever see 'Dead Calm'? Creepy film.
One of my all-time favs!
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No one has mentioned Tom Hanks. His ability to morph into different characters, whether it's comedy or something as serious as 'Philadelphia' or 'The Road to Perdition' puts him right up there as a great actor. IMHO.
I've reach TH saturation, too. He used to be one of my favorite comedy actors (Busom Buddies, Bachelor Party), but ever since Philadelphia, his tragic and/or pathos-dripping everyman have left me cold. I didn't think Tom could do anything worse than Forrest Dumb, but he managed with the completly ridiculous Perdition and the eye-rolling Castaway.
nb ...not big on tragedy
Castaway wasn't his best film, IMO. 'BIG' back in 1988 was fun.
I loved him in 'Forrest Gump', 'Philadelphia', 'The Green Mile' and 'The Road to Perdition'. You may not be big on tragedy but the "Irish" mafia was a very real thing back then and for all I know still is. 'The Ladykillers' was an odd film and I think he only did it to have some fun. It was very annoying to hear him do that sort of Bugs Bunny suck through his teeth laugh.
I'll be interested in seeing him in 'The Da Vinci Code' which is due out in 2006.
Jill
Ooh Ooh Ooh! They are making The Da Vinci Code into a movie????
Thanks for the heads up! :-) I was not aware.
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Ooh Ooh Ooh! They are making The Da Vinci Code into a movie????
Me either. I wasn't even aware it had a story line. So, just what is The Da Vinci Code? It's been getting all this media attention and I still don't know what the deal is, other than something about the continuing bloodline of Christ. One can only hope it doesn't reach Michael Jackson or Paris Hilton. :\
On Tue 14 Jun 2005 11:29:47a, notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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Katra said:
Ooh Ooh Ooh! They are making The Da Vinci Code into a movie????
Me either. I wasn't even aware it had a story line. So, just what is The Da Vinci Code? It's been getting all this media attention and I still don't know what the deal is, other than something about the continuing bloodline of Christ. One can only hope it doesn't reach Michael Jackson or Paris Hilton. :\
Now on that we agree 100%!
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Nichole is great! Did you ever see 'Dead Calm'? Creepy film.
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No one has mentioned Tom Hanks. His ability to morph into different characters, whether it's comedy or something as serious as 'Philadelphia' or 'The Road to Perdition' puts him right up there as a great actor. IMHO.
The movie didn't get good reviews, but his recent "The Terminal" was one I really enjoyed. But I enjoy everything he does.
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I'll be interested in seeing him in 'The Da Vinci Code' which is due out in 2006.
Jill
Go to apple.com/trailers to watch a mini-trailer of DVC - I think summer of '06. I've got to tackle the book before then, although the subject matter really doesn't interest me at all.
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:19:52 GMT, [email hidden] (Curly Sue) wrote:
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re: The DaVinci Code
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As I read it, I felt it would make a movie along the lines of "Three Days of the Condor." If you strip away the attention-generating devices about bloodline and a secret society, it's basically a fast-paced romp, two people running around over the course of a couple of days trying to solve a puzzle with others chasing them to kill them before they find out something. Sound familiar?
I'm sure it will be a fun movie.
What chaps me is that Leonardo's last name wasn't da Vinci. He had no family name. He was illegitimate. The town he came from was called Vinci. He was the Leonardo with no father from Vinci.
But the movie will surely be fun, as you say.
Coincidentally, today there was a column in the NY Times on illusion of facts, opening with the example of The DaVinci Code.
Aside from agreeing with her basic thesis, I was amused to read that she also felt that it read like a movie: "I have nothing against a fine thriller, especially one that claims the highest of literary honors: it's a movie on the page."
Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:59:44 -0500, Katra <[email hidden]>
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Once an actor gets a particular style of acting and sets a habit, some tend to keep it. William Shatner did that, so that's probably why he did not land many jobs after Star Trek.
I don't think Shatner really has the depth of acting ability to stretch much.
I wish I'd seen him on stage. He started at "The Stratford Shakespearean Festival" when it was in its infancy and after 3 years went on to Broadway.
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Go to apple.com/trailers to watch a mini-trailer of DVC - I think summer of '06. I've got to tackle the book before then, although the subject matter really doesn't interest me at all.
It was a good thriller if you didn't get caught up in the all the made-up stuff. It had plot holes that you could drive a truck through. When little old me looks at a code and breaks it in 1 nanosecond but a cryptographer for the FBI can't there's either a lack of research by the author or need for suspension of disbelief far greater than I can muster.
