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| Whitney |
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Hi, Chills, and thanks.
A wonderful adult antidote to the the usual summer fare, is The Door in the Floor.
It's a complex film shot through with grief and mordant humor. Perhaps, at long last, Jeff Bridges will get his Oscar. He is fucking brilliant. Basinger, her fragile beauty a little worn around the edges, is achingly good. Elle Fanning, tiny elfin sister to Dakota, gives a knockout of the park performance.
The film is based on the opening section of John Irving's A Widow for One Year--a novel I slogged through a few years ago. If you read the novel--don'tlet that stop you from seeing this fine film. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:03 am |
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Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
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| God, just what we need, another bloody cinephile. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:05 am |
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Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)
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| Whitney, welcome back...sort of...I know the location is different, but if think of home the way a nomadic people might look at it... |
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I am angry, I am ill, and I'm as ugly as sin.
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit.
I know beauty and I know a good thing when I see it. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:11 am |
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jeremy wrote: If your over forty and worried whether your hip or not, then your not. If you don't care whether your hip or not, the chances are your still not hip.
Well, being over 40 here, I'm not worried if I am hip or not.... damn straight! |
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"If you should die before me / Ask if you could bring a friend" |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:20 am |
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I have forgotten what the Streep gown looked like in "The Manchurian Candidate." Now I'm curious.
Would anyone happen to have a link to a photo or be able to post a photo of the gown? |
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| Kate |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:42 am |
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| The only hip I care about these days is the replacement kind. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:47 pm |
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Kate! 
Thanks, Whit. Now I feel like I have one more choice. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:51 pm |
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I have a few rock musician friends in their 20's who invite me to their gigs, sometimes to watch, sometimes to perform. I was watching a show a month ago and was hit on by a 21-year old girl. Literally half my age.
I felt hip for 30 minutes, but realize that all of it's nullified by the need to dredge it up and mention it here a month later. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:55 pm |
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| The Big Chill is an example of what Shannon's saying -- a film about a specific demographic during a specific era. It looks attractive and so much fun to be digging hippy nostalgia and dancing around the kitchen to "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", but it's not me, and never was. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:57 pm |
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Then let's un nullify it! Lorne your as hip as they come!
Don't anyone ask me how I know!  |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:21 pm |
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jeremy
Either one.
moflixx: I can't find a shot of Her Streepishness in the dress, but it was black, with a boxey neckline and tight 3/4 sleeves and a big skirt. Very Margo Channing at Bill's welcome home/birthday party, by way of "Out, damned spot!"
"It's all worth it when I see that smile...."
Merylicious. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:27 pm |
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inlareviewer wrote: The Grove is located to the sort-of-southeast of the Farmer's Market in the Fairfax district, so it's some miles northish of Staples, which is on the westerly side of downtown. It's been around for a couple of years now.
Cool. Thanks for the details. I hope to visit L.A. again soon. I grew up in Orange County (Garden Grove) and miss my L.A. downtown visits. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:27 pm |
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HI, INLA! Nice to see you back. Let's sing a medley of our favorite songs.
I'll start: "You're the top, you're the Mona Lisa. You're the top. You're the Tower of Pisa." |
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| Whitney |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:38 pm |
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Hiya Marj! tiptoeing back to my office, giving myself several periods of non contiguous forum catch ups. I can now type a sentence without weeping for a cigarette. For anyone else reading this wee post, I quit smoking exactly a month ago--this after several attempts the past few years. It was necessary, it was done.
Inla--nice to meet you, I recall your posts from the Times site-you funny guy, you good writer. Make me laugh out loud.
Jeremy, that was sort of a wishy washy welcome, or, I have misread your post. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:44 pm |
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| [i]whitney[/]: Well, thankee. Laughing is the only thing that keeps me from screaming, though sometimes I do them both at once, to save time. |
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