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marantzo

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:39 pm

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What the hell is the Case Western Reserve? Laughing

Gee, I don't find Horst and Dean very similar at all. Looks or acting. Maybe I haven't seen enough of his films?

whiskeypriest

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:52 pm

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marantzo wrote:

What the hell is the Case Western Reserve? Laughing

A fine private University in Cleveland Ohio, my law school alma mater, that for some reason likes to think of itself as the Harvard of the Midwest. The extent to which it is clearly not that is shown by the frequency with which Harvard is referred to as the CWRU of the East. That's the little in joke.

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marantzo

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:35 pm

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Soon the United States will be calling itself, the Canada of the south.

Case Western Reserve is a very odd name for a University. I Imagine Case refers to someone's name and Western needs no explanation but Reserve. Was it founded by Native Americans?

whiskeypriest

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:50 pm

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marantzo wrote:

The Western Reserve refers to that portion of the Northwest Territory that was originally part of Connecticut before being organized into a separate territory. Roughly, Northeast Ohio.

Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University led the merger of about four or five small private colleges in Cleveland's University Circle area in the 1960's. Hence, Case Western Reserve. Current president of your country graduated Med School from there. Or is it Bolivia? Maybe Ecuador. One of those indistinguishable banana republics down there. Also, Kucinich and the guy who founded Craig's List.

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marantzo

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:37 pm

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The current president of Colombia is Uribe, a lawyer. There is an election next month and there will be a different president. Uribe is finishing his second term. So it's a president of some other country, but not Bolivia whose president is a native and not university educated or Ecuador whose president got his degree and PHD in Belgium and Harvard (the eastern CWR).

Kucinich ? OK, I like the institute.

whiskeypriest

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:02 pm

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Ah - he was "interim" President of one of those countries and so probably the info was outdated. Floris from Lestercorp had a doctorate in speech impedimentology from Case Western.

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Befade

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:12 pm

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I had a chance to see a movie with 5th graders today that I think I reallly love......at least I really liked it. for it's visual creativity, it's sound track, it's baby, it's costumes, and it's architecture. When I go to imbd I'll get the name. It featured Jim Carrey and was called Lemony Snicket....... Narrated by Jude Law. With Meryl Streep. It may be my favorite kid's movie of all time.

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Befade

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:14 pm

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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marantzo

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:56 pm

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Yeah, Betsy, the previews looked interesting but I never did see it. I think its BO was disappointing.

Syd

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:52 pm

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Befade wrote:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

I saw it when it came out. It had an interesting Goreyesque look to it, but it suffered from being cobbled together from three different books in the series. The closing credits are classic.

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Befade

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:06 am

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3 books. have you read them, Syd? I'm interested. I loved the closing credits!

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Marj

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:50 pm

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I don't normally post reviews but Stephanie Zacharek is so spot on in her review of The Young Victoria, I am compelled to share it:

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2009/12/18/the_young_victoria/index.html

And now she's leaving Salon?

billyweeds

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:37 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Saw Definitely, Maybe for the third time today with a couple of initiates who loved it as much as I do. It's a super romantic comedy with a tear-jerker of a finale. This movie is going to last.

whiskeypriest

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:46 pm

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billyweeds wrote:

Saw Definitely, Maybe for the third time today with a couple of initiates who loved it as much as I do. It's a super romantic comedy with a tear-jerker of a finale. This movie is going to last.

Oh, definitely. Maybe.

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Earl

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 10:05 pm

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Marj wrote:

Interesting review. Thanks. The only place where she and I diverge is a couple times she writes that it was a good idea for the onscreen sexual chemistry between Victoria and Albert to be discreet. While I still think it was a good movie, I thought it would have been better with more romantic sizzle. Granted, that might've bumped the rating from a PG to PG-13 or maybe even R territory. But I believe it would have made it easier to relate to the two leads.

{Full disclosure: This is only partly about wanting to see Emily Blunt nekkid.}

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