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    Josh & Anna Smuggar: A Series of Unfortunate Events

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    I can't know whether Bobye Holt loves Josh or not but I'm thinking she's very grateful that her daughter didn't marry him and isn't dealing with what Anna has for the last 10 plus years.  I also think that if Josh gets off there will be no stopping Jim Bob.  That terrifies me.

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    TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel

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    13 minutes ago, graybrown bird said:

    The final scene in Dear Heart takes place in what I think is the old Pennsylvania Station, and must have been filmed just before its demolition began in 1963.  Does anyone know for sure?

    You are so right!  I found this here: https://dengenchronicles.com/  I had to allow them access so they knew I wasn't a robot.  

    "Where was the movie Dear Heart filmed?

    Although The Daily News reported in November 1963 that the Penn Station scenes were running behind schedule, Dear Heart ended their on-location filming on October 3rd. And one thing is for certain — Dear Heart was the last movie to ever be filmed in the original Penn Station."

    TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel

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    5 minutes ago, Rinaldo said:
    16 hours ago, Milburn Stone said:

    Off the top of my head I'm not coming up with the part of "If I Loved You" that underscores "being hit can feel like a kiss," but I know you have something in mind, and If you can refresh my memory I'll appreciate it.

    It's instrumental during that speech (at least onstage; I can't swear that this is retained in the movie as I haven't rewatched it in a while, but I would think it is because in a couple of minutes into Billy singing "Longing to tell you but afraid and shy" etc.

    I don't know if we're as philosophically aligned on this point as you think. Yes, I'm a purist in some ways about trying to make older stage pieces work without alteration; but in a few instances I now think the gap can't be bridged without intervention. (As movies continue to exist unaltered, each of us decides individually how we feel about it, which may include deciding not to watch it again.) Writers from another time, with the best of intentions, may have been oblivious to something we now find too fundamental to ignore. The idea that "he really loves her deep down, he just can't express it except by hitting her" is one I can no longer accept as a redemptive excuse for Billy, not with the awareness we've achieved (and are still struggling to achieve). And Molnar, the author of the source play, didn't think so either: after Liliom gets a second chance and hits Louise, he's taken off to hell and gets no third chance. End of play.

    I think it's possible to imagine a drama in which Billy and Julie are both victims of their upbringing, in which they knew violence as part of their parents' marriages and continued it as part of their own, and Louise will be the one to, as we now say, break the cycle. But Hammerstein didn't write the text to support all that. Directors and actors love to imagine that it can all be done by acting, but I've never seen it really achieved, and my opinion is that it can't. It's a complicated, uncomfortable situation: on principle I tend to think "Accept a work as it is, or leave it alone," but this is one that tests me. We'll each have our own feelings about it, and I've already gone on more than long enough.

    (Especially as I see in the stats that I'm the most frequent poster in the TCM topic, and by a huge huge margin. I'm embarrassed to find myself such a windbag, and I try to refrain from saying anything these days. Obviously without success.)

    I think your opinions, this one included, are very interesting.

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    Retro TV Channels: ”The Good Old Days of Television”

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    Love "The Addams Family" theme and show.   Also "Car 54, Where are You?".   I wish I could still watch "The Patty Duke Show"  Love that and the theme.  I'll add "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" to my favorite tv themes and shows. 

    "The Patty Duke Show" three of the original stars died in that same year.  Of varying ages and illnesses.  Patty Duke was first on March 29 at age 69.  She died from sepsis.  William Shallert died on May 8 aged 93 from natural causes.  Eddie Applegate died on October 17 at the age of 81 after a long illness.   A similar thing happened this year with three members of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."  Although all of those were over 90.   Cloris Leachman died January 27, 94, from complications from a stroke with covid 19 contributing.  Gavin MacCleod, 90, died on May 29, no cause of death was given.  Ed Asner, 91, died on August 29 of natural causes.

     

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    Retro TV Channels: ”The Good Old Days of Television”

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    Watching tv with an antenna can be an adventure but other than the price of the antenna itself it's worth the aggravation of losing some channels that aren't very strong.  I always can get metv, the local channels, pbs, start, dabl, antenna tv.  H&I is most of the time but sometimes fades.  Cozi tv is the same way.  I'm fine with whatever's going on and can adjust.  I also have Hulu Plus so I can get TCM.  With StartTV I've watched "Chasing Jordan" and "The Closer."  I started watching "Any Day Now" because I like Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint a lot but it got to be too heavy with losses and how they happened by episode 8 season 1.  So I stopped watching.  The world has enough going on without watching characters on a show suffer.

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    @doodlebug Thank you so much for being such a blessing always but especially now.  To have you explain things and just to reassure that there really is something going on and that we really haven't gotten help from people in charge who should have been looking out for all of us and not their own agendas.  Bless you!

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    2 hours ago, lookeyloo said:

    Time for a confession.  Son is still very sick.  He is losing hope.  He has always wanted to see MT. Rushmore.  Somehow he managed to plan the trip, got us involved, and his brother and family from the PNW.  It was a very strange trip.  We traveled Delta first class, and wore KN95 masks covered by cloth masks and then a face shield.  Delta does not overcrowd planes and mandates masks.  Seems like the few people on board were compliant.  Interestingly enough the Atlanta airport when we left and came back was relatively deserted, which was surprising. The Minneapolis airport seemed very quiet to us.  We spent the layovers in Minneapolis at a Crown Club, or whatever those rooms are.  Also very few people.  Unless we were eating we kept all the gear on.  And of course sanitizing and hand washing.  Son from PNW drove, only ate at outside restaurants or in car.  They did stay in a hotel coming and going, but, brought food in and kept to their rooms.  Very low density on the road.

    there are few cases around Rapid City and it is a nice little historic downtown with opportunities for outdoor dining, which is what we did when we all ate together.  Otherwise the two bubbles ate in the cars or in the rooms.  We didn't get to hug the grands.  Very odd.  We kept our distances. Also odd.

    Sick son and husband spent a lot of time in their room.  The rest of us sometimes met in the Main Street Square a block from the hotel and sat spread apart.  So odd.  MT. Rushmore had people, but, not many and we were able to keep our distance.  We had our gear on and only about half the people were wearing masks.  But the weather was breezy and we felt okay enough about it.

    Now we are home and quarantining ourselves for two weeks.  Only place I'll go is back and forth to sick son's house, since we are all in the same bubble.  Instacart it is.

    The PNW son would have come visited his brother a few times, but, not in these times.  I pray for strength to carry on.

    It's been said by others, you are a wonderful mom and you have done so much to take care of your son and all your family.  I'm glad you all got to go on this trip together.  You and your family are in my prayers so often.  Watching any one you love suffer is hard.   When it's your child, no matter the age, it's even harder.  I pray that you all find peace in knowing how much love you all share.  

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    1 hour ago, Mindthinkr said:

    @wilsie Thank you for sharing that on the previous page. It gives me joy to hear about such heart warming stories. 
    When isolating all the news does is give doom and gloom, so I can only take so much of it. They really need to make a good news channel so we have something that gives some hope and a modicum of happiness. Be well all. 

    You are more than welcome.  It helped me a lot to be able to share it.  There are such good unsung people in this world.  I'm so glad we got to hear about someone who not only helped but made sure they were really helping, checking what this woman had in her refrigerator.  Like you, I hope everyone stays well.

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    2 minutes ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

    What a wonderful story! And I'd add that no church is even necessary for good people to do good things. Just empathy and kindness.

    It is isn't it?  And like you said, just good people doing good things because of empathy and kindness.  

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    This was shared from someone I love on FB.  She always has some kind and loving things to share.  Watching the how the Duggars, Bates and especially the Rodrigues family not really look out for others this struck a good nerve.  "A few days ago a Kentucky garbage man noticed no trash cans were being put out at an elderly woman's house on his route for two straight weeks. He was concerned enough to share the address with his supervisor. She found the name of the woman at the address and called her: “Ms. Smith, we noticed you haven't put out your cans for a while. Are you ok?” Ms. Smith replied: “I’m ok. But my caretaker was so afraid of the virus that she stopped coming. I can’t get to the store. I don’t have any trash because I’ve run out of food. And I don’t have any family to help me.” After a long pause, the caller said: “You do now. We are your family.”

    She let her truck driver know of the sad news. The next day, on his day off, he knocked on her door and asked her to make up a grocery list. “Ms. Smith— the list is too short.” She added a few more items. “Ms. Smith, this list is still too short. Would you mind if I looked into your fridge?” She relented. He opened the fridge and it was bare. Empty.

    An hour later, he brought in dozens of bags of groceries for a woman he hardly knew.

    Tears. An air-hug that met social distancing protocol. And the garbage man walked out of the house of this woman who was physically immobile, but levitating. A garbage man decided he’d reach out to someone and church broke out. His supervisor shared the creed with this elderly woman: “You have a family now.”

    I miss our services of worship. I miss that it’s silent now. I'm sick to my stomach we had to push back are start-back date to gather.

    But church? Church is happening all around us. It’s a phone-call. It’s a bag of groceries. It happens anytime someone tells another person who is Jesus in his best disguise: “You have a family now.” Real church is not defined by a service of worship, but by servants of Christ.

    Keep being church. That’s all you have to do."  Not one scary going to hell pamphlet involved.

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    3 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

    In the theme of 2020-

    My god mother’s cancer has metastasized to her liver (she was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in October 2019).

     

    FUCK.
     

    Im still processing.   

    I'm so sorry.  

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

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    I didn't have the slightest idea that wanderwoman was anything but a mom who had lost one of her twins and the second was struggling for a while.  Didn't blink when she got cancer, her husband left her.  Donated to a go fund me and got my money back thanks to a mother and daughter team that exposed her.  Like @crazycatlady58 said she must have had a sad life to take advantage of the gold that in this forum instead of appreciating the kindness and caring of so many good people.  

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