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Susannah posted on Main Page The Lobby What terrible, terrible news. My deepest sympathy to all the Goldbergs.
February 12 at 09:25 EST .
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Susannah posted on Movies & Reviews I was thinking the other day that a number of extraordinarily good movies are based on biographies or autobiographies of singers: "Ray," "Coal Miner's Daughter," and "Walk the Line" come to mind immediately. There are many others.
January 12 at 22:33 EST .
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Jes' me "The Joker is Wild", with Frank Sinatra. "All the Way" is such a great song.
January 13 at 01:21 EST .
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MsCharlotteVale There's an older Susan Hayward movie, With a Song in My Heart. I love the songs in that and it's based on the life of Jane Froman. She sang for the troops in WWII, got injured badly but didn't give up. Thelma Ritter's in that one, gives a great performance too. AMC used to show it before they changed their format and became a commercial station.
January 13 at 04:08 EST .
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StormCnter "Sweet Dreams", Patsy Cline
January 13 at 05:33 EST .
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MsCharlotteVale Love Me or Leave Me, starring James Cagney and Doris Day. Sort of a strange pairing but a movie I've always enjoyed.
January 14 at 21:49 EST .
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Schatzi51 "Great Balls of Fire", with Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder.
Not extraordinarily good by any stretch of the imagination - I just think Dennis Quaid was cute.
January 16 at 01:16 EST .
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Susannah posted on Movies & Reviews The most insanely boring movie I ever saw, or saw part of, was "Elvira Madigan." It was being re-run at some art house. I walked out about halfway through, or maybe earlier. Told my date I'd be in the bookstore next to the theater if he wanted to join me.
January 10 at 19:40 EST .
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Richdet Now that's just cold, Susannah ... not. All I remember about that is how everybody luuuuved the theme music. Otherwise it was one of those movies that evaporated from your head a day after you saw it -- except for the Mozart piano concerto, which I think became a pop hit as a result. It was certainly on the radio a lot. To this day if you check out some Mozart cds, the concerto is listed as "The Theme from Elvira Madigan."
January 10 at 20:07 EST .
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MsCharlotteVale I watched the movie once and I can't remember what it was about. It's one of those movies you're supposed to like, for whatever reason.
January 10 at 20:19 EST .
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Susannah I think it was about a boy and a girl who rolled around in the grass and giggled a lot, and then he shot her and killed himself. The end part I got from someone who actually sat through the whole thing.
By the way, I wasn't alone in the bookstore for very long.
Richdet, that whirring sound you hear is Mozart spinning in his grave.
January 10 at 20:32 EST .
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Susannah posted on Movies & Reviews I should be embarrassed to admit this, but...I LOVE disaster movies. Or anything with rampaging dinosaurs. One of the best New Year's Eve's I ever spent, I spent alone watching the Jurassic Park Trilogy and eating pizza. When I called my mother the next day to wish her a Happy New Year, I told her what I had done and she said, "How old are you--twelve?"
January 10 at 13:07 EST .
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Rollingcow I love the Jurassic Park movies, too. I put them in and watch them while I'm cutting up fabric and pretending to be a dinosaur (okay, I don't really prentend to be a dinosaur I got carried away there). Sometimes it's fun to be twelve.
Mrs. Cow
January 10 at 13:43 EST .
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Susannah I liked the remake of Godzilla, too, although I know fans of the original Japanese version hated it. But that was one big lizard.
January 10 at 15:28 EST .
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Nugoddess I like cheezy disaster films. The Towering Inferno was about the bestest disaster film this side of The Poseidon Adventure and Airport . Great smarmy dialogue from actors who should know better.
January 10 at 15:45 EST .
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StormCnter Nugoddess, you beat me to The Poseidon Adventure. Best disaster movie, ever, and the book was even better. The Last Voyage was a shiver-maker, too. And Flight of the Phoenix.
January 10 at 15:58 EST .
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Susannah I have a preference for natural disasters. Give me a tidal wave, a tornado, a flood, a volcano, etc., and I 'm in heaven. Preferably some mix of all of them. But the CGI has to be good.
I like alien invasion movies as well.
January 10 at 15:59 EST .
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StormCnter Well, you've lost me with alien invasions. Somebody else can have my ticket.
January 10 at 16:06 EST .
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Surfhut I'm having a senior moment and can't remember the name of the movie with Ann Heche and Tommy Lee Jones about a volcanic eruption at the LaBrea Tar Pits. Wasn't a great movie but like it because I live near the Tar Pits and know all the streets and landmarks in the lava's path.
January 10 at 16:17 EST .
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Susannah That was "Volcano," Surfhut. The tagline was: "The coast is toast."
January 10 at 16:27 EST .
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Susannah Aw, Stormie, you didn't like "Independence Day"?
January 10 at 16:28 EST .
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StormCnter Since alien invasions aren't my thing, I must confess I've never seen it. But now to one of my favorite genres, which is westerns.....I just invested more than an hour in Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp", when the video version of the computer blue screen popped up "Can't play disc, error number somesuch".
Bah. I had already decided that Costner made a terrible authority figure, though, just as he was an awful Robin Hood.
January 10 at 16:40 EST .
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Susannah posted on Movies & Reviews "Shattered Glass", the movie about the kid who fabricated all those articles for The New Republic, was superb.
January 4 at 00:02 EST .
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Susannah posted on Recipes Here's a tip, if you like this sort of thing. Buy a box of Pillsbury Cranberry Quick Bread mix. Substitute one cup of fresh-squeezed (this is important) orange juice for the one cup of water cited in the package directions. Add to the batter a handful of chopped pecans and a handful of dried cranberries.Bake in a loaf pan according to package directions.
No, I am not Sandra Lee, even if this semi-homemade.
Speaking of Sandra Lee, have you noticed that her chief pantry staple appears to be a half-gallon of vodka?
December 23 at 11:14 EST .
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Surfhut I have a great deal of respect for Sandra Lee, given her childhood and what she has achieved in her life. Her cooking shows and recipes ... not so much.
December 23 at 11:55 EST .
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Losgatos That sounds really good...and easy.
December 23 at 17:41 EST .
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Wytammic I have noticed her main focus tends to be the "adult" beverages. However, Surfhut is correct ... she is a perfect example of how great this nation is. Anyone can succeed with hard work.
December 25 at 10:26 EST .
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Southerner I don't know her story. Would you mind giving a summary here?
December 25 at 20:14 EST .
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Susannah posted on Recipes No recipe, just a tip: Bake meatballs on a rack in a roasting pan. They hold their shape better, cook evenly, and any excess fat drips down into the pan.
November 18 at 20:14 EST .
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Yottyhere Now that is a great suggestion Susannah. Especially about the fat drips!
November 18 at 21:11 EST .
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OnTheBall Spray the rack with PAM prior to placing the meatball on it, to keep the meatball from being ripped apart upon removal as well.
November 18 at 21:41 EST .
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Susannah The meatballs brown nicely, too.
November 19 at 10:28 EST .
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Surfhut Do the same thing with bacon.
November 19 at 11:22 EST .
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Susannah Yes! Bacon cooked on a rack in the oven is great. And it doesn't set off the smoke detector, either. :)
November 19 at 12:30 EST .
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Susannah By the way, this method is great for fatty dinner-sized sausages, such as Italian, as well. Just prick--you should pardon the expression--the sausages so they don't blow up in the oven, place them on the rack in the roasting, pan, stick them in the oven at 350 for about twenty minutes, and you have perfectly cooked sausages, not burned on the outside and raw on the inside. Cooking time varies according to how well calibrated the oven is, and how big the sausages are.
November 19 at 17:29 EST .
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Susannah posted on Weird But True There's some good stuff here: www.newsoftheweird.com
The world is full of moronic criminals.
November 16 at 12:04 EST .
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Susannah posted on Suggested Reading I love reading good memoirs, and one I especially enjoyed was Jacques Pepin's "The Apprentice". His life is fascinating, particularly if you also enjoy reading about food. By the time you finish the book, you wish he lived next door to you.
November 14 at 11:25 EST .
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StormCnter I think I would like that one, Susannah. I enjoy books about food. But, not specifically about food, how did anyone like Elizabeth Gilbert's books. I waded through the second one, thought the first one might be better and found I was wrong.
November 14 at 13:56 EST .
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Clipped wings If you like books with lots of references about food, you should look into the Southern Sisters books by Anne George. (Murder on a Bad Hair Day, etc.) The books are light-hearted and so much fun. Anne usually always included at least part of the recipe in describing the meals.
November 15 at 10:12 EST .
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Susannah posted on Suggested Reading It might be fun to compile a list of hugely overrated writers. A sort of "the emperor has no literary clothes" kind of thing.
November 7 at 11:17 EST .
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Rollingcow Kurt Vonnegut is right at the top of my list.
Mrs. Cow
November 7 at 15:32 EST .
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Susannah Ahead of that perpetual whining adolescent, J.D. Salinger?
November 7 at 16:50 EST .
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Flybynight LOL- Hear, hear- to both of those. And despite the literary accolades, I can't get enthusiastic about James Joyce.
November 8 at 00:40 EST .
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StormCnter Jane Smiley, Robert James Waller
November 8 at 05:45 EST .
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StormCnter Mrs. Cow, I suspect you and I are the wrong gender for Vonnegut. The male readers in our family have been reading him since their teenage years.
November 8 at 05:46 EST .
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Rollingcow OMG! One of the cousins introduced me to Jane Smiley-they went to school together or some such. How unimpressive she was-gack! Don't know about the gender thing, the Calf could never stand Vonnegut either and Mr. Cow says he's too far above for such stuff. I'm for adding Stephen King to the list as well. His early stuff was pretty good, but lately his lib side is winning out and it turns me off totally.
Mrs. Cow
November 8 at 08:01 EST .
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StormCnter Nah, don't add Stephen King. It is my uninformed opinion that to be on the overrated list, the writer must have always been less than expected. King wrote some goodies, but I don't believe any writer has (how many has he written now? 50?) that many good books in his or her head.
November 8 at 08:25 EST .
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Susannah It's odd, but with some writers...by the time they get to be famous, they've already said everything they have to say, and what comes afterward isn't as good as what they wrote at the beginning or middle of their careers.
November 8 at 09:47 EST .
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Rollingcow Okay, I'll give on Stephen King, but only because Salem's Lot and the Shining were so good. And, yes, Susannah, I've noticed that about a few. I think buying their stuff becomes a habit for some people. Are we going to add poets? I've never understood why I can't just read a poem and enjoy it, why, oh, why do they all have to have some deeper meaning that makes it so much less?
Mrs. Cow
November 8 at 11:37 EST .
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Susannah Mrs. Cow, whatever you personally get out of a poem is sufficient. Academics have to make poetry appear obscure, and in need of being unlocked by a key that only academics possess. Otherwise, academics wouldn't be in business. They certainly have succeeded in turning a lot of people off poetry. Which is a shame.
As for writers who've lost their mojo still being published...that's a marketing decision based on prior sales.
November 8 at 11:58 EST .
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