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lolAww, I like you too.:kiss:
lolAww, I like you too.:kiss:
Like all things. Peace is fleeting... lolAnd once again, Peace and Harmony were able stand side-by-side with Cranky Discord as they should in the Land of the Fedora Lounge.
Like all things. Peace is fleeting... lol
Um, OK. lol
And once again, Peace and Harmony were able stand side-by-side with Cranky Discord as they should in the Land of the Fedora Lounge.
I was actually hoping Clint would do "Unbroken" if it were made into a movie. As it turns out, Brad Pitt's wife may be doing it with the Coen bros. I'll withhold until it's in the can, but I HOPE it's a good movie - the book was awesome. I too still think there's time for Cruise to redeem. He was damn funny in Tropic Thunder! So he has better in him...I just realized, Tom is only 50 years old. When Clint Eastwood was 50, he was going through his orangutan phase, we all thought he had jumped the shark! Yet, look what he has gone on to do. So who knows with Cruise, it is much to early to say.
Yeah, I'm hoping they don't try to do a "Quentin Tarantino" on this. A) the story deserves to be done right - not watered down like I expect.B) They're not Quentin Tarantino.I almost never read books to the end - I read so slowly that I usually get 2/3 through and forget. That book I read in four days - which is a record for me.Unbroken is an amazing story. I'd love to see it given the Eastwood treatment. TCM recently had a fine program about the directing efforts of Clint Eastwood. It's definitely worth a watch. I'd read Mrs. Pitt was interested in filming Unbroken but had no idea about the Coen brothers!
Hey! Leave the Monkees out of this. They have made their place in history and outshine many of the other morons that came after them.....One shouldn't confuse "success" with worth... "The Monkees" comes to mind. Just cause Cruise has made a boatload of money on a boatload of pictures doesn't mean he's worth watching. There are people who love him, some who loathe him and some like me who just find him annoying and a curiousity at most. I wonder if he'd give one "Top Gun" and "Cocktail" and all the rest of that dreck for one decent Oscar winning role? All due respect but to mention him in the same sentence with Bogart is blasphemy. Cruise coudln't carry Bogarts soiled undies. Sorry just no comparison.
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I just realized, Tom is only 50 years old. When Clint Eastwood was 50, he was going through his orangutan phase, we all thought he had jumped the shark! Yet, look what he has gone on to do. So who knows with Cruise, it is much to early to say.
I have a conscious mental block on all of the 1970s from shag carpets to appliances with ugly colors to wide ties and wide lapels. Oh the horrors!You had to go and remind me of how we all look in the pictures from my brother's first wedding, in 1973, I think it was, or maybe '74. Hideous. Just awful. Beyond bad. Wretched. An affront to all that is good and right with the world.
I once had a mantra that went something like "good design is good design, no matter the prevailing stylistic conventions of its time." You know, some three-bedroom ramblers are quite nice, while others aren't. Or, wide lapels and double-pleated pants alone don't make a good-lookin' suit, just as narrow lapels and flat fronts don't necessarily make a bad-lookin' one.
But then I'm reminded of 1973. Shudders.
I have a conscious mental block on all of the 1970s from shag carpets to appliances with ugly colors to wide ties and wide lapels. Oh the horrors!