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marantzo

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:25 pm

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I am watching Westward the Women on TCM. It's almost over. It's with Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel among others. It's very good and rough.

yambu

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:40 pm

Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area

jeremy wrote:

Are you thinking of Bill Forsythe's Comfort And Joy, which has got to be 20 years old.

That's the one. Thanks. And you're right, it was '84.

jeremy

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:20 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

So what did a temporarily single, good looking English guy with his own bachelor pad do in Perth on a Friday night. Stayed-in, did his ironing, drunk half a bottle of moderately priced chardonnay and flicked between two family-fare films being shown on TV.

Wimbledon was a pleasant enough rom com, but it was all a bit obvious and devoid of real drama. A Notting Hill wannabe, that tried too hard to please. If you ever saw the trailer, you don't need see the film, there's nothing else. Kirsten Dunst's part was hopelessly underwritten and both the main stars were wasted. It's not that they phoned in there performances, rather that there was no material to fashion a performance from.

The other film I half watched was the second Harry Potter, the one with the big snake. The first time I saw it, I must have let my good will for the books get the better of me. The script was so staggeringly heavy on exposition that it almost sank the film. And Chris Colombus's direction...he's an arse. I fell asleep before the end.

I think I'll go out tonight.

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mo_flixx

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:18 pm

Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 12533

jeremy wrote:

jeremy -
I've travelled in Australia but never made it to Perth (or Adelaide for that matter).
I'm kind of curious...do you think I should make an effort to visit Perth? It's awfully far from everywhere else in the country. I've enjoyed Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania - and visited the Outback (kind of a strange place - 50's time warp - with a mostly inhospitable climate).

Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback.

jeremy

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 11:02 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Perth is a pleasant city, well laid out, nice climate (so far) - though I'll be off to the desert before it hots up here - but a little dull. I have no complaints, but if it was my money, it wouldn't be near the top of the list of places I'd feel the need to visit.

lshap

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:33 pm

Site Admin Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 4248 Location: Montreal

I'd love to visit Perth with someone else's money. Rock on, Jeremy.

chillywilly

Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:39 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

jeremy wrote:

Wimbledon was a pleasant enough rom com, but it was all a bit obvious and devoid of real drama. A Notting Hill wannabe, that tried too hard to please. If you ever saw the trailer, you don't need see the film, there's nothing else. Kirsten Dunst's part was hopelessly underwritten and both the main stars were wasted. It's not that they phoned in there performances, rather that there was no material to fashion a performance from.

I was out and about at 4:45am on Black Friday and passed on the DVD of this movie (sale priced at $2.99) for one reason: it was Full Frame and I only buy Widescreen versions of movies. My fiance wanted to see this movie and mentioned that $2.99 was cheaper (even after you add tax) than a rental.

Notting Hill is one of my favorate films and I knew the same people did Wimbledon, but hadn't heard too many favorable reviews of it when it first came out.

Sounds your addition to the unfavorable means I saved $3 and some change.

Enjoy the down under, mate.

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Marj

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:04 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Hey Chilly,

Did you enlarge your avatar? Whatever you did, it looks great.

chillywilly

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:09 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

Marj wrote:

Hey Chilly,

Did you enlarge your avatar? Whatever you did, it looks great.

Yes, I did. Found my original art work I had from when I got my tattoo and resized it and made it transparent so the background shows up. (Syd's avatar clued me in to the fact my last avatar wasn't a transparent GIF)

I have one that Lissa did for me, using another penguin, but I can't find it. I was going to use that for the holidays. If I find it on another one of my backups, I'll switch to that one for the holidays.

Speaking of penguins, I broke out March of the Penguins today and watched one of the extras on it.... a Bugs Bunny cartoon called "8 Ball Bunny" with the Hoboken Penguin. Always one of my favorites with the line that gets quoted by me at times.... "Penguins is practically chickens"

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jeremy

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:15 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

http://www.goliathcorp.com/penguin.html

chillywilly

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:36 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

Veal, huh... so penguins have that lamb attribute to them.

This line from that link was interesting...

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The stupid looking seabird, once considered 'cute' and 'funny' but now known to be a violent desecrator of the beautiful unspoilt wilderness of Antarctica

I wasn't aware that they were destroying the "wilderness of Antarctica". Isn't that where they've lived for the last hundreds of years?

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marantzo

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:44 pm

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Chilly, veal isn't lamb.

chillywilly

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:50 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 8251 Location: Salt Lake City

My bad... I don't eat it all that often.

I should have Wiki'd that one.

"Veal is a culinary term for meat produced from young cows."

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Marj

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:10 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 10497 Location: Manhattan

Chills - Well, I must say you look mighty spiffy young man. Mighty spiffy indeed.

I have got to find those diving penguins I have somewhere on my computer and send them to you.

jeremy

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:52 pm

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6794 Location: Derby, England and Hamilton, New Zealand (yes they are about 12,000 miles apart)

Chilly,

The genus homo can trace its origins back about five million years. Penguins being great at catching fish, but not so hot on palaeontology and carbon dating, needed us to trace their ancestors back a good forty million years or so. Therefore, rather than 100 years you offered, I would suggest that penguins have probably been living in the Antarctic for as long as there has been an Antarctic.

I understand that penguins taste awful and I would not take the article I posted too literally.

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