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I liked the movie. The love story may have been what the directors and writers wanted you to see but the most riveting part, for me, was the recreation of the Titanic's ordeal in the most accurate detail possible.
You are right wow, how can you not be touched by the tremendous loss of life and the inequities of a class system that led to more first class passengers being saved. One article I read (I believe it was in National Geographic) reminded me, though, of the fact that you should not judge people without really getting to know them. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world, perished on that trip. Not because there was no place on the lifeboats for him, but because his main concern was to “save the kiddies” which he went around gathering and putting into lifeboats.
Oddly, one person that stood out in the movie, for me, was Molly Brown, who tried her best to have the lifeboat she was in go back and save more people. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to find out more about her but I came up dry.
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Oddly, one person that stood out in the movie, for me, was Molly Brown, who tried her best to have the lifeboat she was in go back and save more people. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to find out more about her but I came up dry. She's quite a legend: http://www.mollybrown.com/intro.htmlThe person that played her in Titanic actually looks quite a bit like her too.
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Oh, Jazz., that's wonderful!
BelM, you've got to look! Neat old pictures and everything!
What a neat site! Talk about history coming alive!
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Haven't seen the movie, so that makes at least two of us. I never go to a movie where I know how it ends, especially if it has two saccharine pills for lead actors. Plus, of course Celine although I must admit she alone wouldn't have put me off it.
Best part of the whole hype was the counter-hype. A T-shirt appeared with the movie logo and the slogan It Sank - Get Over It! on the front. Laughed like a drain when I saw that!
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>Barbara Streisand (sp? just doesn't look right) disproves the "talent = singing on key" equation.
>ps (something tells me I'll never hear the end of this one)
Musick:
Be sure and mention John Denver while you are at it.
Ted runs for cover, but Jackie's far to quick. WHACK WHACK WHACK.
TEd
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"The music in me" (that's a line from a J.D. song) causes me to admit that John Denver's voice was not the best I've
ever heard. I fell in love with him because of his
beliefs about the world we live in, and his ability to
write such evocative songs. For ex.: "There's a truck out on the 4-lane, a mile or more away; The whinin' of his wheels just makes it colder." And in all the rest of that
song, you can just see the loving lady at home, and
feel her loneliness, and know exactly the importance of all the little routine things that happen once her loved one finally arrives. S-i-g-h...
So, Ted--you got all that exercise fer nuttin'!
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I am leaving in the morning for a few days in D.C., assuming the weather permits. I will try to find a way to
get here from there, but if not, I'll miss everybody.
A healthy and happy new year to all.
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Nina Simone, an artist which I really like, is quite known for not singing on key. She does a brilliant rendition of "Here Comes The Sun" by the Beatles, and her "I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl" is seriously sensual without being crude.
Jackie, have a good time!
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all god's creatures have a place in the choir--
I am not sure who wrote it (is a song) but i love to believe it.
I haven't yet found the right bucket-- I can't/could sing on key-- can't/couldn't carry a note even if came in a bucket!
But i've never let it stop me... I think i sound fine-- its all the people in the world with any sense of pitch (i do sometime feel sorry for those with perfect pitch) who find my singing less than tunefull/tasteful.
Three cheer for jackie-- she'd let me sing in her choir-- (she might deside my voice was best used in the parking lot rather than the choir loft.. but she has a good heart.
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Probably half my problem with popular music is that I am cursed with perfect pitch. It's really my one and only "talent". O me miseram ...
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