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rocker
Old Love
USA
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 Posted - 07/01/2010 : 20:40:10
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| a great one lk....I have the dvd package where there is an additonal dvd called "A Conversation with Gregory Peck". Very good for Peck fans. Atticus was the character he most enjoyed playing in his career. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 20:52:17
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a great one lk....I have the dvd package where there is an additonal dvd called "A Conversation with Gregory Peck". Very good for Peck fans. Atticus was the character he most enjoyed playing in his career.
MY favorite character too, rocker.
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Old_Man
Old Love
United Kingdom
668 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 21:08:01
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Recently finished reading "Oil" by Upton Sinclair. Great read and would be a good introduction to socialism for some. Not at all like the film "There Will Be Blood" which is "very" loosely based on the book.
About to start reading "A Most Wanted Man" by John Le Carre. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 22:02:49
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| old man...You've got a pretty good espionage writer there. I have to admit I've only read Le Carre's earlier spy novels (Tinker Tailor, Small Town in Germany, etc and not his later ones. How has he stood up? |
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 22:08:23
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Originally posted by Old_Man
Recently finished reading "Oil" by Upton Sinclair. Great read and would be a good introduction to socialism for some. Not at all like the film "There Will Be Blood" which is "very" loosely based on the book.
Yes, I read that the book was really only a starting point for the film (which I didn't think that much of as, I guess, I was expecting a lot more after all the hype) so maybe I would enjoy the novel a lot more. |
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Old_Man
Old Love
United Kingdom
668 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2010 : 19:53:48
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"so maybe I would enjoy the novel a lot more."
Oh you would definitely enjoy the book more Caryne! |
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2010 : 20:26:43
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Originally posted by Old_Man
"so maybe I would enjoy the novel a lot more."
Oh you would definitely enjoy the book more Caryne!
Yes, another one to add to my 'Amazon Wish List' of things I would love if I actually had any money...... |
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Old_Man
Old Love
United Kingdom
668 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2010 : 00:23:19
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| Caryne, you can buy it on abebooks.co.uk for as little as £3.00, second hand. |
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2010 : 11:25:06
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Caryne, you can buy it on abebooks.co.uk for as little as £3.00, second hand.
I don't even have £3.00 spare at the moment but I will get hold of a copy soon, thanks |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2010 : 12:59:30
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The Wasteland can be heavy going. But to me it is like one of those paintings that you keep returning to always to find something new. I first came across the poem in the mid 80s when Channel Four broadcast a wonderful series entitled Six Centuries of Verse...I've still got the accompanying book. They had one part of the poem - 'A Game of Chess' acted out and it has stayed with me almost like no other poetry. Sometime in the mid 90s, Irish thespian Fiona Shaw performed the whole thing on TV as a mesmerising monologue.
"HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME"
Amazing - Although Fiona Shaw's acclaimed TV performance was from more than 15 years ago, I have just discovered that she is reprising it on the London stage this very weekend. It does however, appear to have sold out...even the additional permance arranged for Sunday evening. It's a pity - we could all have gone as a group! 
http://www.wiltons.org.uk/productions/theatre/the-waste-land-sold-out
Ms shaw has also recently taken it to New York...and here's a review in the NYT:
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9407e2dc123af93ba25752c1a960958260
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2010 : 13:20:39
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Originally posted by John9
The Wasteland can be heavy going. But to me it is like one of those paintings that you keep returning to always to find something new. I first came across the poem in the mid 80s when Channel Four broadcast a wonderful series entitled Six Centuries of Verse...I've still got the accompanying book. They had one part of the poem - 'A Game of Chess' acted out and it has stayed with me almost like no other poetry. Sometime in the mid 90s, Irish thespian Fiona Shaw performed the whole thing on TV as a mesmerising monologue.
"HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME"
Amazing - Although Fiona Shaw's acclaimed TV performance was from more than 15 years ago, I have just discovered that she is reprising it on the London stage this very weekend. It does however, appear to have sold out...even the additional permance arranged for Sunday evening. It's a pity - we could all have gone as a group!
http://www.wiltons.org.uk/productions/theatre/the-waste-land-sold-out
Ms shaw has also recently taken it to New York...and here's a review in the NYT:
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9407e2dc123af93ba25752c1a960958260
Yes, there was a 4 star review of it the other day in The Guardian. She was performing it at Wilton's, which is a wonderful old music hall place in the East End. If ever you get a chance to go to Wilton's then do so, it is quite magical.
http://www.wiltons.org.uk/
When I had the money I became a 'friend' of the place as I loved to support it, sadly I cannot afford it now but I really hope it does get saved. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2010 : 14:39:47
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| And if you want you can see her in "Mountains of the Moon" where she plays Richard Burton's wife (Patrick Bergin)...pretty good British film on Speke and Burton's Nile exploration ..... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 19/01/2010 : 16:31:56
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| In a French Rev mood..picked up a book on Robespierre..kind of went off the rails with hsi revolution after a while... |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 19/01/2010 : 17:01:42
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Yes I saw Mountains of the Moon upon its release....yet another fine movie from Bob Rafelson...and perhaps one of the few of his that did not star Jack Nicholson. Much of it was made in and around Birkenhead.......across the Mersey from Liverpool. Apparently, Mr Rafelson took up residency there for several months.
And Robespierre, Rocker....I think he was admirable in his sincerity......but his ideas became an obsession...and that made him monstrous...and in turn I suppose that makes him fascinating to us. A former student of mine recently gave me a book about him entitled Fatal Purity(by Ruth Scurr). |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 19/01/2010 : 19:13:40
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"Once Upon A Time In America" last night...Leone's great one.
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