There was one? For real? Did not know this.(maybe now that I do, I can train my brain to think it's not typo-riffic.) I did know that one of the signers from RI had a mild form of cerebral palsy, which I bet even my know-it-all Not-secret boyfriend KO doesn't know. But of course, he wouldn't think he found a brother if he found it.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
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erikaj - Dec 07, 2006 10:14:39 am PST #6277 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 10:16:30 am PST #6278 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, I am full of shit.
The signer WAS spelled with two t's. [link]
Stupid Aaron Sorkin. Spelling it wrong.
Kathy A - Dec 07, 2006 10:17:31 am PST #6279 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Josiah Bartlett is one of the New England representatives in 1776, and I liked how Sorkin gave Jed that rather formidable ancestry.
Edited to add a "t" to be correct.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2006 10:23:05 am PST #6280 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, I gotta stand by the Brainy Jewish Guy's misspelling at this point...maybe he'll let me have a Josh Lyman of my own, sometime. It'd be nice to have somebody to hang with when I'm feeling all hand-wringy.
Strega - Dec 07, 2006 10:28:55 am PST #6281 of 10001
Seeing it in a theatre is no guarantee that you'll love it, but seeing it on a TV is a near-sure bet that you won't.
Echoing, but: yes. I'd seen bits of 2001 occasionally on TV when I was younger, and it was edited and had commercials, and meh. Then, I think in high school, we went to go see it at the Uptown. On a 70 foot screen. And then I fell in love with Kubrick.
I liked Bull Durham, but I'm normally bored by sports movies. So maybe that's why people who do like sports movies don't like it.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2006 10:36:59 am PST #6282 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Then, I think in high school, we went to go see it at the Uptown
Love the Uptown! (It's saying something that I can't remember if I saw 2001 for the first time there, or at an IMAX theatre. BIG fucking screen!)
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2006 10:44:07 am PST #6283 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
On a 70 foot screen.
I've seen Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Lawrence of Arabia and 2001 all on 70 foot screens. Frigging awsome!!!
Atropa - Dec 07, 2006 10:48:29 am PST #6284 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Arsenic and Old Lace
But but but ... it's wonderful! And it's my family's traditional Christmas movie!
Theodosia - Dec 07, 2006 10:49:38 am PST #6285 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Forbidden Planet is also a movie that improves a lot on a widescreen. Not up to 'classic' values, but since the director seems to have loved shot compositions where one character is emoting over here and the other character is way over there, suddenly scenes seem to make just a little more sense, hyuuuuge rooms seem roomier, Krell machines seem Krellier, and et cetera.
Fred Pete - Dec 07, 2006 10:55:46 am PST #6286 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
(The book is not only much more racially biased, but a lot more complicated. Scarlett actually had three children!)
Not to mention that many of the County people were eliminated or reduced to bit appearances.
Part of the problem is the impossibility of filming a faithful representation of the novel. I vaguely remember reading somewhere or other that a faithful movie version of the novel would run about a week.