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edina
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response 37 of 289:
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Oct 19 15:40 UTC 2002 |
Ditto. I watched it again recently because Costco was selling it for like
$11. Worth every cent. And I have a big jones for William Petersen.
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jep
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response 38 of 289:
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Oct 19 23:53 UTC 2002 |
"Spiderman" was good but it didn't match "X Men" in my opinion.
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richard
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response 39 of 289:
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Oct 21 01:00 UTC 2002 |
AUTO FOCUS-- This is another dark character study by writer/director
Paul Schraeder, who wrote Taxi Driver, and directed Affliction, among
others. It is a biopic on the life of actor Bob Crane, a well known
Los Angeles disk jockey in the fifties/sixties who achieved even
greater fame as Colonel Hogan in the tv series Hogan's Heroes. This
movie picks up right before Crane gets the part in Hogan's Heroes and
takes you through the run of the series and the years afterward,
showing in the process the benefits of and dangers of celebrity, and
the rise and fall of a lonely man caught up in the web of his own
success. Crane had a serious sex addiction problem that he lost
control of when he became a big tv star, and suddenly could get sex
whenever and wherever he wanted. He is portrayed as a deeply insecure
man with low self esteem, who changed as a result of his celebrity and
went from being insecure to the flip side of that, which is
narcissism.
As Hogan's Heroes ends, Crane deals with the pressures of his career
suddenly flaming out, by overindulging and becoming addicted to his
formerly closeted interests of pornography and sex. He befriends a man
who is an expert at audio/visual technology, such as it was in those
days, and they both end up totally into the early seventies swinger
scene, bringing home unknown women and filming themselves having sex
with them. Crane descends into more and more behaviour he has little
ability or puts little effort into controlling-- he is a lonely man
whose one big asset, his tv celebrity, means many women will sleep him
and this enables him to deal with his loneliness with sexual
encounters. Encounters that he tapes, and later feeds his own
narcissism by watching those tapes over and over. It is not any secret
how this movie ends, because it is well known that Bob Crane was
brutally murdered in an Arizona apartment in 1978. But this movie
attempts to portray who Bob Crane was and what he had become, without
being too judgemental.
This is an excellent, riveting movie, but if you aren't into dark
movies, or explicit sexual scenes, you probably won't like this. Bob
Crane is played by Greg Kinnear, in a great performance that is likely
to make him a best actor favorite come Academy Award time. Kinnear is
wonderful playing a character who goes through a serious emotional
rollercoaster during the movie. This is the performance of Kinnear's
career. Crane's best friend, the audio/video expert who becomes
his "manager" and club-hopping buddy, is played by Willem Dafoe (one of
my favorite actors who is great in virtually everything he does)
AUTO FOCUS (the Bob Crane story), opens nationally this coming week. I
give it a full four stars without question
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lynne
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response 40 of 289:
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Oct 21 02:05 UTC 2002 |
Scooby Doo: Pure dumb fun :) Well worth the $3 at the campus 2nd run.
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mynxcat
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response 41 of 289:
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Oct 21 14:34 UTC 2002 |
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slynne
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response 42 of 289:
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Oct 21 14:47 UTC 2002 |
Heh, re b) I like old fashioned names, FWIW. I would be the type to
give a kid a really old fashioned name like Hannah or Emma or something
like that.
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mcnally
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response 43 of 289:
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Oct 21 17:07 UTC 2002 |
The name "Hannah" seems to be enjoying a resurgence in popularity recently.
I've run across a number of couples who have chosen it for their daughters.
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mynxcat
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response 44 of 289:
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Oct 22 01:03 UTC 2002 |
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mdw
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response 45 of 289:
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Oct 22 01:43 UTC 2002 |
Sure. I can't see how it's any worse than "Sapna".
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mynxcat
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response 46 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:39 UTC 2002 |
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giffofwh
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response 47 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:41 UTC 2002 |
I am a newuser in the syetem. Harry Potter is a good film for children or
Adults of fatastiy dream.
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remmers
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response 48 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:45 UTC 2002 |
Re #46: Nobody seemed to think that Ginger Rogers' name was weird.
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gelinas
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response 49 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:52 UTC 2002 |
The English have long named their daughters for flowers and herbs.
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orinoco
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response 50 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:57 UTC 2002 |
Malorie, I'm told, means "misfortune" in French (malheurie). People name
their kids all sorts of seemingly-odd things.
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jmsaul
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response 51 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:26 UTC 2002 |
Names like that were traditionally to keep evil influences away from the
kid by convincing them that the kid is already accursed, or something like
that.
Re #48: Names go in and out of style. Nobody thought it was weird to
name a child Prudence once upon a time either. Or Mildred.
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mdw
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response 52 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:27 UTC 2002 |
The major problem with Ginger would be getting confused with a certain
bunch of castaways in TV-land. "Dream" on the other hand, would be a
definitely unusual name that does not have completely positive
attributes in English. "He's a dream" may be considered complimentary
when uttered by 50's girls, but "he's a dreamer not a doer" is
distinctly less complimentary. I'm sorry to say that Sapna, itself,
would have other unfortunate near-ringers in sound or spelling, such as
saponify, to convert into soap (often a smelly and somewhat grisly
process), or "sappy" - which itself is unreasonably close to "dreamy" in
meaning.
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mynxcat
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response 53 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:08 UTC 2002 |
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gelinas
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response 54 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:15 UTC 2002 |
She was named Virginia Katherine McMath at birth. After her parents divorced,
she lived for a while with her grandparents, where one of her cousins had
trouble pronouncing "Virginia" and took to calling her "Jinja". Later, her
mother married Logan Rogers, and Ginger took her step-father's surname. See
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-bio.htm for more
information.
So no, it wasn't the name given her by her parents, but neither was it a
'stage name.'
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mynxcat
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response 55 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:21 UTC 2002 |
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mdw
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response 56 of 289:
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Oct 22 04:50 UTC 2002 |
"Supna" is even worse to English ears.
Here's a web page by someone whose given name *is* Ginger, who gets
quite upset when people refuse to use it:
http://pub141.ezboard.com/feverquestpeoplefrm7.showMessage?topicID=400.top
ic
I can understand her frustration. I meet a significant number of people
who somehow short-circuit "Marcus" into "Mark", and insist on calling me
that. "Mark" is a perfectly fine name, it's just not mine. As if that
weren't bad enough, I know one person, of Indian extraction, who somehow
manages to further map this into "Mike". That's far enough away from me
that it doesn't even begin to wake the "somebody said my name" nerve
when I hear it.
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cmcgee
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response 57 of 289:
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Oct 22 05:27 UTC 2002 |
*grin* and my son Mark, was forever being called Marcus, in some strange
racial stereotyping.
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jmsaul
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response 58 of 289:
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Oct 22 13:14 UTC 2002 |
Re #56: Not to mine. But then I regularly talk to people who aren't
white Anglo-Saxons, and I've traveled to foreign countries and
actually -- I know this is amazing -- speak some foreign languages.
So I guess I'm weird.
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slynne
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response 59 of 289:
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Oct 22 13:55 UTC 2002 |
I dont know why people get bent out of shape about names anyway.
Personally, I think Ginger is a perfectly fine name for a cat or a
person. I probably wouldnt name a child of mine, "Ginger" but that is
because I have a cat named Ginger and I wouldnt want my kid to think I
named her after a former pet. I wont be naming any of my children:
Killer, Shadow, Fonzie, Fred, Brooke, Crissy or Heironymous for the
same reasons although I think Fred, Brooke and Crissy are perfectly
nice human names.
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edina
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response 60 of 289:
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Oct 22 14:00 UTC 2002 |
Thanks!
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mynxcat
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response 61 of 289:
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Oct 22 14:47 UTC 2002 |
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