workingdad's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: Everyoneworkingdad About Turning 50 and Being Single - Blog Entry20 Apr 2006 05:16 AM Happy Five OH you not-so-old-lady! :-) The Disney Fairy Tale vs. The Original Fairy Tale - Blog Entry18 Apr 2006 02:14 AM Disney often gets hammered for what it does to the fairy tales, but most American movies sugarcoat their source material...we want happy endings... I do think it's important that children learn the originals as well as the disney versions... it's good to compare... when we see different versions of fairy tales in books or videos we try and talk about the differences, esp. with my oldest... this has nothing to do with fairy tales, but i am eagerly waiting for them to be old enough to watch "the Great Escape" so that they can compare it to "Chicken Run"! What is a "Traditional" Family? - Blog Entry18 Apr 2006 01:58 AM Kelly -- my mother reminds me a lot of marie... but when i learned marie was a piano teacher, i had to stop watching... that made the show a reality-tv program instead of fiction for me! too close to home, like "Freaks and Geeks..." What is a "Traditional" Family? - Blog Entry17 Apr 2006 09:08 PM I've often said that "Roseanne" was pretty realistic -- the back and forth between Dan and Roseanne reminded me of me and my wife... even when they had special episodes which made fun of tv sitcom culture, they remained somehow "real." The New Doctor Who - Blog Entry17 Apr 2006 09:06 PM Oh dear ---one more reason to consider hooking up my cable box again.... i've seen many of the Doctors though I'm hardly an expert, and I like most of us thought that Thom Baker was the Gold Standard... I like Davison very much, did not like Colin Baker, and the others were interesting if not as good as actors as Thom.. he was meant for the part. Marriage Guide Books? What Every Husband Should REALLY Know! - Blog Entry14 Apr 2006 06:59 PM oops -- the link is missing: here it is, i hope: http://marriage.families.com/blog/the-marriage-guide-book-what-every-wife-needs-to-know Inger Stevens: Tragic Beauty Lost - Blog Entry09 Apr 2006 02:12 AM I remember her in a Twilight Zone episode, where she plays the daughter of a scientist played by John Hoyt. She complains that everything is mechanized -- robot servants and all that -- but then discovers that she herself is not flesh-and-blood but a robot, also. Very good performance. It was one of a handful of episodes from the original series that was shot on videotape instead of film, as a cost-cutting measure. Saturday Date Movies - Blog Entry09 Apr 2006 02:04 AM Well, we finally saw Brokeback Mountain (after the kids fell asleep, of course). We thought it was BORING. Bet it was more impressive to see all that Wyoming on a big screen (though I think a lot of it was shot in Canada). But the whole thing could have been told in about ninety minutes, not 140. In fact, we fast forwarded quite a bit. And man, was it hard to understand what anyone was saying. "Mumbling Cowboys" is what they should have called it. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Blog Entry08 Apr 2006 01:17 PM agreed -- one parental relationship is not the only contributing factor. I've got a very problematic relationship with my mother -- not terrible, but I certainly have "issues" lol -- and so far I'm going okay in my marriage! The Sixth Sense: A Rare Film - Blog Entry05 Apr 2006 12:10 PM Marjorie -- as a matter of fact, Dead of Night is one of my favorite films. The Michael Redgrave sequence where he plays the drunk ventriloquist is brilliant. Serling was obviously influenced by many a sci-fi writer, esp. Ray Bradbury, but what makes him great was his ability to write terrific morality plays without lapsting into the pedantic (well, he was guilty of that, too, but his best stuff was not!). |
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