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Play It Again, Please: The Flyboys & the Calvery
Two movies, both from the 1940’s are worth watching again. They are each about war, each a century apart. Pop the corn and enjoy Hollywood classics about the Flyboys and the Calvary.
A D-Day Tribute: The Longest Day
Note: Reprinting this from last year, remembering D-Day. Every year we recognize in some increasingly trivial way the incredible victory of the Normandy beach landings in France on June 6, 1944. D-Day changed the course of WWII and certainly the course of our history. When I visited the memorial a few years ago, I was […]
Play It Again, Please
Two Great Oldies These two movies have been replaying again on several of the channels lately, and they are two favorites. I’ll pass them on to you. Enemy of the State (1998) One of the amazing things about this movie is that it was made about 16 years ago…it’s all about government surveillance gone amuck, […]
Frankly, my dear, I DO give a damn!
I just detest this age of “political correctness” our world is stuck in. So many daily examples in our newspapers,on talk shows, FB, Twitter, ETC. Everyone has to be so careful with wording, so thorough in giving acknowledgements to all who might possibly be offended, that plain straight talk can be dangerous to one’s reputation […]
Edelweiss
The Sunday night Oscars paid tribute to The Sound of Music‘s 50th anniversary, and it was wonderful to see the very gracefully aged Julie Andrews and to hear her distinctive clipped English again. Traveling through Austria recently, everyone in our party was all Gaga about The Sound of Music. Oohs and ahs about Maria and […]