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5:22 pm
June 5, 2010
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Bella44 said:
I'd go with 'Vanity Fair' – I haven't read it yet but its on my to-read list. I agree Tina, Becky Sharpe sounds like a very intriguing heroine!
I've just been checking out Elizabeth Taylors' jewellery book on Amazon (between USD $250 – $350 so its a little outta my price range
) and apparently she had the La Peregrina (sp?) pearl that was given to Mary Tudor by Philip of Spain when they married in 1554
Bella — Oh my gosh — I'd forgotten that about La Peregrina and it was a gift from Burton. I wouldn't have known it except that it was mentioned in the footnotes in Mary M. Luke's A Crown for Elizabeth. I also heard (but I'm not sure how true it is) that Burton tried to buy Elizabeth the Hope Diamond but they wouldn't sell it to him.
From some of the things I've seen of Becky Sharpe in the movie versions, she would give Scarlett a run for the money! LOL
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
5:24 pm
June 5, 2010
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@Sharon – love Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. And if that’s the Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, I love that version…and I still remember my mother taking my sister and me to see it at the drive-in…and then she had us bury our faces against the back seat during the lovemaking scene. If I hadn’t finally asked “Can we look now?” our heads would have been buried for the rest of the movie! LOL Laura has been a favorite of mine for years. I can’t remember if my mother or my grandmother first told me about it, but even now, I can watch it just like it was the first time. But you – what a way to be introduced to movies! That’s wonderful. And being lulled to sleep by the voices you mentioned – those were some incredible voices. (I also loved Ronald Colman – his Sydney Carton will always be one of my favorite movie and book characters).
My mother and grandmother both loved Elizabeth Taylor. One time I even found some of my mother’s old movie magazines; I especially remember the one with a photograph of Elizabeth backstage during one of Eddie Fisher’s concerts. She looked so beautiful, and with this glow in her eyes. But I still think Burton was the love of her life and you’re right – no one lost their head….Oh well….And you know, I guess the closest she came to playing Scarlett O’Hara was her character in Raintree County (which was partially or entirely filmed in my home state of Kentucky) – but Raintree County was NO GWTW LOL
You would think in all my reading that I would have run across why Flynn didn’t get to play Rhett – unless Warner Brothers Studios didn’t want to release him to Selznick, but that would be odd since another of their stars was Olivia DeHavilland and they permitted her to go (and MGM gave Gable their permission). I’m not sure who all was up for Rhett in Scarlett, I can’t remember anymore, but Tom Selleck might have been a choice. (I definitely know that at one time he was wanted for Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but CBS wouldn’t release him to make the movie).
Thank you so much for the background on why Mary had the English arms on her standard. I thought I remembered something about Henri II being involved in the whole controversy. It’s been a while since I’ve read the history on it.
I remember Elizabeth also meeting with Mary in the version with Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave…left me cold! (Years before I saw the movie, two students in my drama class performed the scene – my eyes rolled so far back into my head I thought they’d get stuck LOL All I could think was ‘Oh yeah, poor Mary. Always poor innocent Mary.’). Whereas the scene with Helen Mirren felt more grounded in reality (if we can even imagine it having happened), the one with Jackson and Redgrave was nearly a copy of the scene between Anne Boleyn and Henry in Anne of the Thousand Days. Figures since you’re talking about the same playwright. (Mary harping on and on about how she had given birth to a son and Elizabeth was just…well, whatever it was she said. I quit listening after a while LOL).
PS: Besides the Tudors, the Corleones may be one of my favorite families – in both fiction and real life. J
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
5:33 pm
June 5, 2010
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Oh my gosh — I'd NEVER seen that image of Mary I before!!! Creepy doesn't even come close.
In that Disney fantasy short (well, fantasy's the best term cause it sure wasn't too accurate LOL) they claimed that the “pretty maids all in a row” were the Four Maries. And I also remember that every time something would happen around “poor” Mary, she would put a finger to her lips or chin and sigh “Oh dear” because “obviously” she had nothing to do with any of this.
Like I said…fantasy! Aladdin was more realistic!!
Impish_Impulse said:
TinaII2None said:
Disney did a short animation about her (said she was the inspiration for Mary Mary Quite Contrary and even Disney romanticized her as an innocent around which evil things happened).
I hadn't heard this version until I googled it just now. I was always told it referred to Mary I's persecution of Protestants, complete with creepy illustration seen below (I hope)
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
6:58 pm
October 31, 2010
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The only thing my great-grandmother left us of that era was a cedar chest (which I have) and a bunch of newspapers–including the ones announcing VJ Day, VE Day, and the assassination of JFK (she loved FDR and JFK).
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
8:51 am
February 24, 2010
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MegC said:
The only thing my great-grandmother left us of that era was a cedar chest (which I have) and a bunch of newspapers–including the ones announcing VJ Day, VE Day, and the assassination of JFK (she loved FDR and JFK).
My mom wasn't big on saving things, but we are going through the house and finding stuff. She worked at a printing press and was always bringing books home for me. We found my copy of The Princess Bride. It is an original copy, and nothing like the movie. We have a newspaper announcing VE-Day, which my son is framing. In her cedar chest we found my dad's love letters to my mom. 1940-1943. He was in the air force and was begging mom to marry him. She married him in oct. '43, and he shipped out soon after that for Europe. They are a riot. No letters from the front though.
I have a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings mostly of JFk's murder. What a sad time that was. It felt like the world stood still when he died. I never felt anything like it again until 9-11. My scrapbook on RFK contains clippings from his entire career. He was and still is my hero.
9:03 am
June 5, 2010
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MegC said:
The only thing my great-grandmother left us of that era was a cedar chest (which I have) and a bunch of newspapers–including the ones announcing VJ Day, VE Day, and the assassination of JFK (she loved FDR and JFK).
Oh my gosh Meg! That's wonderful. The Tudor and WWII era are my top favorite periods of history so that is just incredible.
When I was moving from my old house, I found one of my grandmother's clippings about JFK's assassination, as well as articles she had saved regarding the Richard Speck mass murders which I think pre-dates the Manson Family murders in 1969. I remember the adults in my household whispering about Speck, but I finally found out on my own (yep, curious even then). I think she saved them because the Speck case was so horrific and it was one of those things the public hadn't heard a lot about back then; plus that, you had the miracle of the lone survivor. And then I go into the work that I do — because I want to see people like that brought to justice.
(I won't go into the details about the Speck case — if any of you are unfamiliar with it, Google it. It's positively chilling. It's also one of the reasons I don't usually read mystery, suspense or horror novels outside of the “polite” Agatha Christie-type books — real life is enough for me).
Curious — are there any books that some of you go out of your way to avoid?
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
9:41 am
February 24, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
MegC said:
The only thing my great-grandmother left us of that era was a cedar chest (which I have) and a bunch of newspapers–including the ones announcing VJ Day, VE Day, and the assassination of JFK (she loved FDR and JFK).
Oh my gosh Meg! That's wonderful. The Tudor and WWII era are my top favorite periods of history so that is just incredible.
When I was moving from my old house, I found one of my grandmother's clippings about JFK's assassination, as well as articles she had saved regarding the Richard Speck mass murders which I think pre-dates the Manson Family murders in 1969. I remember the adults in my household whispering about Speck, but I finally found out on my own (yep, curious even then). I think she saved them because the Speck case was so horrific and it was one of those things the public hadn't heard a lot about back then; plus that, you had the miracle of the lone survivor. And then I go into the work that I do — because I want to see people like that brought to justice.(I won't go into the details about the Speck case — if any of you are unfamiliar with it, Google it. It's positively chilling. It's also one of the reasons I don't usually read mystery, suspense or horror novels outside of the “polite” Agatha Christie-type books — real life is enough for me).
Curious — are there any books that some of you go out of your way to avoid?
Richard Speck..OMG! I have not heard that name in decades. America was in shock when that happened. I was a kid but I remember everyone being shocked and scared. Because of the Manson murders, I did read Helter Skelter. I've delved into some seriel killer books. My husband thinks I have a sick mind. I used to be obsessed with the minds of seriel killers.
This is how I pick a book. 
On the first page, if the woman leaves her house and picks up her gown to walk down the stairs and gets into a coach, I'll read it. If she comes out the door straightening her skirt and flinging her hair as she comes down the stairs, and gets into a taxi, I usually take a pass. I rarely read anything past the 1700's, unless it's about the American west. The whole industrial revolution period turns my stomach.
I won't read WWI or WWII novels. Just can't bring myself to do it. That's my husband's genre. Other than that, if I find a book that appeals to me, even if it's not in the time period, I love, I will pick it up. It just doesn't happen that often.
9:58 am
February 24, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
Oh my gosh — I'd NEVER seen that image of Mary I before!!! Creepy doesn't even come close.
In that Disney fantasy short (well, fantasy's the best term cause it sure wasn't too accurate LOL) they claimed that the “pretty maids all in a row” were the Four Maries. And I also remember that every time something would happen around “poor” Mary, she would put a finger to her lips or chin and sigh “Oh dear” because “obviously” she had nothing to do with any of this.
Like I said…fantasy! Aladdin was more realistic!!
Impish_Impulse said:
TinaII2None said:
Disney did a short animation about her (said she was the inspiration for Mary Mary Quite Contrary and even Disney romanticized her as an innocent around which evil things happened).
I hadn't heard this version until I googled it just now. I was always told it referred to Mary I's persecution of Protestants, complete with creepy illustration seen below (I hope)
Another of childhood's sweet memories destroyed.
11:22 am
February 24, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
@Sharon – love Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. And if that’s the Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, I love that version…and I still remember my mother taking my sister and me to see it at the drive-in…and then she had us bury our faces against the back seat during the lovemaking scene. If I hadn’t finally asked “Can we look now?” our heads would have been buried for the rest of the movie! LOL Laura has been a favorite of mine for years. I can’t remember if my mother or my grandmother first told me about it, but even now, I can watch it just like it was the first time. But you – what a way to be introduced to movies! That’s wonderful. And being lulled to sleep by the voices you mentioned – those were some incredible voices. (I also loved Ronald Colman – his Sydney Carton will always be one of my favorite movie and book characters).
My mother and grandmother both loved Elizabeth Taylor. One time I even found some of my mother’s old movie magazines; I especially remember the one with a photograph of Elizabeth backstage during one of Eddie Fisher’s concerts. She looked so beautiful, and with this glow in her eyes. But I still think Burton was the love of her life and you’re right – no one lost their head….Oh well….And you know, I guess the closest she came to playing Scarlett O’Hara was her character in Raintree County (which was partially or entirely filmed in my home state of Kentucky) – but Raintree County was NO GWTW LOL
PS: Besides the Tudors, the Corleones may be one of my favorite families – in both fiction and real life. J
As far as I'm concerned there is no other version of Romeo and Juliet. As it should be, these two actors, Olivia and Leonard, were young enough to make it work. They did such a wonderful job. Shakepeare is not easy.
My husband downloads old radio shows off of Internet archives…The old Time Radio Collection. We fall asleep at night listening to them. Usually they knock us right out. We can't listen to Abbott and Costello or Gracie and George because we are laughing too much. And I mean snorting with laughter. Always my favorites. Last night we listened to Johnny Dollar, Insurance Agent. It stars Edmund O'Brien. William Conrad is also in it. Johnny is an insurance agent who solves crimes. They are great, but I rarely stay awake 'til the end. We had some Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall downloads as well.
Raintree County takes place in the old south. That's about the only thing that movie has in common with GWTW.
I am half Italian. The village of Corleone is not far from my grandparent's village in Sicily. My family came to the US to get away from the mafia. Coming to America, didn't exactly mean they escaped the mafia. They were threatened with death if they didn't help the mafia out when they were asked. My grandmother, had to hide a mobster who was running from the police in her coal bin. Her sister had been told one of them was coming to her house. The police were chasing him. He got to my aunts, but the police shot him in her front yard.
Many of them thought the movie was a glorification of the mob. That time was way before I was born. It didn't mean the same thing to me as it did to them. I was far removed from those scenes. The way the family was portrayed was perfectly Italian. The audience watching the wedding scene could have been at any one of our weddings. Life is a celebration. Family honor is ever so important to Italians, and the movie certainly portrayed that. And Al Pacino was just too yummy.
12:27 pm
June 5, 2010
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Sharon said:
I have a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings mostly of JFk's murder. What a sad time that was. It felt like the world stood still when he died. I never felt anything like it again until 9-11. My scrapbook on RFK contains clippings from his entire career. He was and still is my hero.
RFK was one of my mother's heroes too. What a small world.
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
12:43 pm
November 18, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
Curious — are there any books that some of you go out of your way to avoid?
1)Miils&Boon/Crtland/Harlequinn romances
2) Westerns
3) Spy( a la Tom Clancy) novels.
It's always bunnies.
1:47 pm
December 5, 2009
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I've got Gordon Ramsey's curry cook book and have cooked a lamb thing. It was nice.
I've recently re-read GW Brernard but I've mainly stuck to non-fiction recently. I've just read 'Room' by Emma Donaghue, which is one of the best fictional books I have ever read. I'm currently reading 'Sister' by Rosamund Lupton.
2:01 pm
June 5, 2010
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Sharon said:
Richard Speck..OMG! I have not heard that name in decades. America was in shock when that happened. I was a kid but I remember everyone being shocked and scared. Because of the Manson murders, I did read Helter Skelter. I've delved into some seriel killer books. My husband thinks I have a sick mind. I used to be obsessed with the minds of seriel killers.
This is how I pick a book.
I won't read WWI or WWII novels. Just can't bring myself to do it. That's my husband's genre. Other than that, if I find a book that appeals to me, even if it's not in the time period, I love, I will pick it up. It just doesn't happen that often.
I read Helter Skelter in high school and did a report on it too. How in the world would I know that one day I'd actually work crime scenes and learn even more to see the best and the worst in human beings?
Now Sharon — I love how you choose a book! I'm a hopeless romantic so I normally love to read books in which 1) woman leaves house, 2) picks up gown to walk down stairs, 3) gets into coach! LOL Now occasionally she might climb into a horseless carriage, as long as it's prior to the Great War! Seriously though, my tastes are all over the place. These days I'm more into historic biographies — the Tudors of course and other English figures. My best friend (also named Sharon) gave me The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill as a birthday gift because he's always been a favorite of mine. As I mentioned, I started reading Russian lit a couple of years ago. I already knew how Anna Karenina would end (I've seen pretty much ALL of the movie versions), but I still wanted to see how Tolstoi had written it. I don't read a lot of romance novels now, not like I did when I was younger, and I would devour the old Harlequin historic romance line (forgot what it was called). Tried Barbara Cartland for a while during my teen years, until I realized after the tenth book LOL that the heroines and heroes were all the same, except the names, occasionally the places, and the nobleman's title changed!
I guess my criteria is: if they have a grand ball or dance or masque, etc. at some point in the book so that the heroine can wear her most beautiful gown (one so that the silks and satins can swish about her underskirts), dance with the man she will fall in love with (whether she knows it or not), and I can visualize Vivian Leigh (Scarlett OR Anna Karenina), Audrey Hepburn (Natasha OR Eliza Doolittle), Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) or Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth) then it'll probably give it high marks. 
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
2:25 pm
January 9, 2010
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My tastes are all over the place too! Just about the only genres I won't read are Mills and Boon/Harlequin romance books and Chick-Lit stuff, which is pretty much your standard romance but with more shopping. Bleh.
Novel wise at the moment I seem to be reading a lot of stories set in old houses, usually in a very gothic sort of way. I love it when the house itself seems to be a main character! I bought a book called Farundell by L R Fredericks yesterday which is about a WWI soldier still traumitised by the war who stays at an idyllic country house called Farundell in the early Twenties. There (of course!) he falls under the spell of the rich and eccentric family. I bought it because I thought 'Farundell' sounded a bit Tolkien-ish and because I liked the cover!
Does anyone else buy books based on what the cover looks like?!
And Wreckmaster, what is it with Gordon Ramsey?! I just don't get him at all, even though his Kitchen Nightmare shows can be mildly amusing!
2:34 pm
November 18, 2010
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TinaII2None said:
Sharon said:
This is how I pick a book.
I won't read WWI or WWII novels. Just can't bring myself to do it. That's my husband's genre. Other than that, if I find a book that appeals to me, even if it's not in the time period, I love, I will pick it up. It just doesn't happen that often.
Now Sharon — I love how you choose a book! I'm a hopeless romantic so I normally love to read books in which 1) woman leaves house, 2) picks up gown to walk down stairs, 3) gets into coach! LOL Now occasionally she might climb into a horseless carriage, as long as it's prior to the Great War! Seriously though, my tastes are all over the place. These days I'm more into historic biographies — the Tudors of course and other English figures. My best friend (also named Sharon) gave me The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill as a birthday gift because he's always been a favorite of mine. As I mentioned, I started reading Russian lit a couple of years ago. I already knew how Anna Karenina would end (I've seen pretty much ALL of the movie versions), but I still wanted to see how Tolstoi had written it. I don't read a lot of romance novels now, not like I did when I was younger, and I would devour the old Harlequin historic romance line (forgot what it was called). Tried Barbara Cartland for a while during my teen years, until I realized after the tenth book LOL that the heroines and heroes were all the same, except the names, occasionally the places, and the nobleman's title changed!
I guess my criteria is: if they have a grand ball or dance or masque, etc. at some point in the book so that the heroine can wear her most beautiful gown (one so that the silks and satins can swish about her underskirts), dance with the man she will fall in love with (whether she knows it or not), and I can visualize Vivian Leigh (Scarlett OR Anna Karenina), Audrey Hepburn (Natasha OR Eliza Doolittle), Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) or Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth) then it'll probably give it high marks.
Us Sharons have good taste.
I've read 3 BC books and I'm convinced 2 were the same one…LOL.
I read the blurb ,generally on Amazon since I'm so far from a bookshop with a decent English selection, if it's thrown up as a recommendation or as a recommendation from a forum I'm a member of, I'm certain I'll take a second look. My choices are so wide-spread, I have a lot of fantasy, historical fact and fiction, women's studies, astronomy fill shelves along side biology and chemistry text-books and now philosophy…..
It's always bunnies.
2:40 pm
November 18, 2010
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Bella44 said:
My tastes are all over the place too! Just about the only genres I won't read are Mills and Boon/Harlequin romance books and Chick-Lit stuff, which is pretty much your standard romance but with more shopping. Bleh.
Novel wise at the moment I seem to be reading a lot of stories set in old houses, usually in a very gothic sort of way. I love it when the house itself seems to be a main character! I bought a book called Farundell by L R Fredericks yesterday which is about a WWI soldier still traumitised by the war who stays at an idyllic country house called Farundell in the early Twenties. There (of course!) he falls under the spell of the rich and eccentric family. I bought it because I thought 'Farundell' sounded a bit Tolkien-ish and because I liked the cover!
Does anyone else buy books based on what the cover looks like?!
And Wreckmaster, what is it with Gordon Ramsey?! I just don't get him at all, even though his Kitchen Nightmare shows can be mildly amusing!
I have in the past when I used to read dire horror novels. Now I prefer less slasher horror so picking books by the cover doesn't work.
I lurve GR…I haven't read any of his books yet! It's his enthuseasam for food I like. I prefer Hell's Kitchen to Kitchen Nightmares though. Watching people go from good or not so good cooks into a top-notch chef is facinating to me.
It's always bunnies.
2:58 pm
June 5, 2010
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Sharon said:
As far as I'm concerned there is no other version of Romeo and Juliet. As it should be, these two actors, Olivia and Leonard, were young enough to make it work. They did such a wonderful job. Shakepeare is not easy.
My husband downloads old radio shows off of Internet archives…The old Time Radio Collection. We fall asleep at night listening to them. Usually they knock us right out. We can't listen to Abbott and Costello or Gracie and George because we are laughing too much. And I mean snorting with laughter. Always my favorites. Last night we listened to Johnny Dollar, Insurance Agent. It stars Edmund O'Brien. William Conrad is also in it. Johnny is an insurance agent who solves crimes. They are great, but I rarely stay awake 'til the end. We had some Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall downloads as well.
Raintree County takes place in the old south. That's about the only thing that movie has in common with GWTW.
I am half Italian. The village of Corleone is not far from my grandparent's village in Sicily. My family came to the US to get away from the mafia. Coming to America, didn't exactly mean they escaped the mafia. They were threatened with death if they didn't help the mafia out when they were asked. My grandmother, had to hide a mobster who was running from the police in her coal bin. Her sister had been told one of them was coming to her house. The police were chasing him. He got to my aunts, but the police shot him in her front yard.
Many of them thought the movie was a glorification of the mob. That time was way before I was born. It didn't mean the same thing to me as it did to them. I was far removed from those scenes. The way the family was portrayed was perfectly Italian. The audience watching the wedding scene could have been at any one of our weddings. Life is a celebration. Family honor is ever so important to Italians, and the movie certainly portrayed that. And Al Pacino was just too yummy.
Oh my gosh!! I LOVE old radio shows!!
You're right about Raintree County. LOL Now we Kentuckians were thrilled, I'm sure, to have such stars as Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff making a movie in our state (it was a bit before my time), but the story never gripped me. Elizabeth was no Scarlett; Montgomery was no Rhett and Eva was no Melanie! LOL
That is incredible about your family. I don't have any Italian in my background as far as I know, but I just always loved the Corleone sense of family, as you mentioned. When the movie first aired on TV back in the 1970's, I still remember girls coming into class the next day and they had been crying since the evening before — because of Sonny on the Causeway. And I love both of the weddings — Connie's fancy one and Michael's simpler Sicilian one. One time my dad asked me what kind of wedding I wanted, and when I started describing it he told his then wife “Tina wants one of those Godfather weddings,” then he started figuring how much it might cost! LOL Okay at this point he hasn't had to worry about it but it'd be cool to find an Enzo to bake the wedding cake for me!
I'll tell you all a quick Al Pacino story. Back in the late 90's, they were filming the Oscar nominated The Insider in Louisville because the hero, Jeffrey Wigand, had lived here, worked here for Brown and Williamson, and taught school here. So that meant the entire film crew lived here for several months including star Russell Crowe (in what may have been his first major leading role in America — I consider LA Confidential a co-starring part) and Al Pacino. If you watch the movie, you'll see a lot of landmarks (and some cops that I know too). Anyway, my baby sister's boyfriend (now her hubby) was a doorman at the residential apartments where Pacino lived while here, so one day, she saw Pacino as he was leaving to start work. Do you know what she tells me? “He's so short! And why doesn't he look like Michael anymore?!!!” I had to remind her that Michael had been about twenty-seven years before!!
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
3:10 pm
June 5, 2010
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Bella44 said:
My tastes are all over the place too! Just about the only genres I won't read are Mills and Boon/Harlequin romance books and Chick-Lit stuff, which is pretty much your standard romance but with more shopping. Bleh.
Novel wise at the moment I seem to be reading a lot of stories set in old houses, usually in a very gothic sort of way. I love it when the house itself seems to be a main character! I bought a book called Farundell by L R Fredericks yesterday which is about a WWI soldier still traumitised by the war who stays at an idyllic country house called Farundell in the early Twenties. There (of course!) he falls under the spell of the rich and eccentric family. I bought it because I thought 'Farundell' sounded a bit Tolkien-ish and because I liked the cover!
Does anyone else buy books based on what the cover looks like?!
And Wreckmaster, what is it with Gordon Ramsey?! I just don't get him at all, even though his Kitchen Nightmare shows can be mildly amusing!
*raising hand* I've bought books based on the covers! And sometimes it's worked out. LOL Don't ask for examples — it's been a while.
Oh that's another type of book I love to read — cookbooks!! I love cookbooks!
I do watch Kitchen Nightmares now and then, but Hell's Kitchen just rankles my nerves.
Henry: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry VIII: Well said. Well said.
– Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
3:39 pm
January 9, 2010
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Louise said:
I've got Gordon Ramsey's curry cook book and have cooked a lamb thing. It was nice.
I've recently re-read GW Brernard but I've mainly stuck to non-fiction recently. I've just read 'Room' by Emma Donaghue, which is one of the best fictional books I have ever read. I'm currently reading 'Sister' by Rosamund Lupton.
I've read 'Sister' and I really enjoyed it, even though I kind of saw the end coming. And I'm wanting to read 'Room' too – I've heard nothing but good things about that.
Not really a cookbook person, but that's probably because I suck at cooking!!!!!!!!!
