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[yiddleboge6]

Our daughter just told us that Gone With The Wind is going to be celebrating it's 80 year anniversary by playing in some theaters on 2 days - Friday Feb 28 and Sunday March 3. I just got us tickets for the March 3 matinee. If you're interested you can go online and find out where it'll be playing near you. I forgot that it was 4 hours long! Hopefully we can sit in the very back and stealth vape.

For me, this was one of those times when, strangely, the book and the movie left me with two distinctly different feelings. I had read the book, years before seeing the movie,,,,because I had one Grandmother who always said I reminded her of Scarlet...maybe because whatever crap life dealt me, I always picked myself up and went on..."Tomorrow is another day"... The end of the book left me feeling 'hope'....the movie left me feeling horribly depressed and without a hopeful feeling....

Oddly, the house we bought when we first moved to NJ, set on 1 1/2 acres, looked from the outside as if it could have come from 'Gone With the Wind'. I so wish she could have seen it...

 

[clnire]

@Uncle Willie , loved the Linda Rhonstadt clip!!! She was one of the greats, nice to learn how she is doing.

 

[Uncle Willie]

@Uncle Willie , loved the Linda Rhonstadt clip!!! She was one of the greats, she is one of the greats .. nice to learn how she is doing.

Just a slight edit ..

 

[FranC]

Just a slight edit ..

Well deserved

 

[Bea-FL]

Our daughter just told us that Gone With The Wind is going to be celebrating it's 80 year anniversary by playing in some theaters on 2 days - Friday Feb 28 and Sunday March 3. I just got us tickets for the March 3 matinee. If you're interested you can go online and find out where it'll be playing near you. I forgot that it was 4 hours long! Hopefully we can sit in the very back and stealth vape.

my favorite movie of all time. I've lost count on how many times I've seen it, or how many times I've read the book. The first time I read it was in Greek when I was 15. I have it on DVD and still watch it often.

 

[FranC]

Good morning to the young at heart

 

[Bea-FL]

Good morning everyone. Fran how are you doing?

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Bea Taking it day by day.................

 

[clnire]

Just a slight edit ..

My sincere apologies, very true. Thank you for the edit....

 

[Janet H]

Good morning Fran, Bea and Cathy. Looks like a wet dreary day here, but at least it's not freezing. I've caught Miles cold so I'm all clogged, coughing and feeling like a wet dishrag. Think I'll get the slow cooker going for pulled pork and let it do it's thing for the day. Tomorrow is National Pizza Day! Guess what we're having for dinner?

 

[yiddleboge6]

'Morning everyone...

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Kathy,Janet and yiddle

 

[Uncle Willie]

Hola ..

Sunny and a balmy 14o ..

 

[DavidOck]

Morning! Heck, we're a balmy 29 atm, although it's not going to stay that way...

 

[Uncle Willie]

The weather here in Fly Over Country is certainly encouraging snuggling up with a snuggie or at least a blankie over the next several days .. .. although I saw it in IMAX when it came out, I'm likely going to rent the "Bohemian Rhapsody" Blu Ray at the Redbox or the Video Store .. it's also about time for a re-watch of "Sunset Boulevard", one of my all time favorite films .. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" as well as "The Grapes of Wrath" sound good ..

So, I'm lining out my little Weekend Film Festival ..

I don't want to throw any shade, but I was never a huge fan of "Gone With the Wind" .. as far as American Film History, I know it ranks up there, but, for me, it was always an extended Soap Opera .. .. Janet mentioned it's Theater release earlier, that is part of the TMC Big Screen Classics Series ::

TCM Big Screen Classics | Fathom Events

I re-watched "Cool Hand Luke" for the who knows how many times a while back, it still maintained it's impact and resonance ..

 

[Uncle Willie]

Morning! Heck, we're a balmy 29 atm, although it's not going to stay that way...

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Your Weather Person's graphic sure beats mine .. graphically, anyway ..

 

[FranC]

Good morning,Willie and David. Balmy 33 here and have a wind advisory for this weekend as well as a sizable snowstorm next week.

 

[DavidOck]

Your Weather Person's graphic sure beats mine .. graphically, anyway ..

Yeah, I think they have 47 pics for different kinds of rain

 

[Uncle Willie]

Yeah, I think they have 47 pics for different kinds of rain

This is the upside of a certain legal substance within the Great State of Washington .. .. and, with our new Gov here in IL, soon we will be going cardless as well .. much to the chagrin of the "Dr's" that set up dedicated cash mills with which to issue said cards ..

 

[Uncle Willie]

A while back, when ECF decided to put the block of 5 recent Posts in the upper right corner called "Latest Replies", done in an effort to increase posting rates which in turn, beefs up the Street Value of a site as determined by Clicks ..

I had, prior to that, pretty much stayed away from most areas other than "The Lounge" for some years .. having been jaded heavily by the sheer amount of repetition, digression into Political Conspiracy theories on most any Thread .. (a new thread on some Hardware ends up being a Manifesto on Government, eventually, it always seemed) ..

Thus, when the "Latest Replies" block appeared, and was in my face, there would be topics I might be drawn to .. so I took the (click) bait ..

IMO, things have not changed .. the Armchair Shrinks, the Self Appointed Grand PooBahs, the Government Manifesto Conspiracy Freaks, the Passive / Aggressive Nut Jobs, etc .. they may have different Handles and Avatars, yet they seem to still push the same Agenda's as were being pushed back in the Golden Age of ECF ..

I Praise this Forum for introducing me to a great bunch of Folks that I would have otherwise, never known ..

I just need to resist the urge to wander around, I need to stay in my Safe Place ..