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[Freddie]

Page Four!

[John G.]

So, move us along.

[John G.]

There we go.

[Freddie]

There we go.

Or as OKLAHOMA! was once called, Away we go!

[singdaw]

Poor shark has a loose canine.

[singdaw]

And West Side Story was once called Gang Way!

[John G.]

Starting Memory of the Camps with lost documentary footage Hitchcock shot.

[John G.]

And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.

[Freddie]

I was just reminded by a Washington Post story that "Bye Bye Birdie" did not get a good, or even decent, review from Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times.

Here's the review
https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/ByeByeBirdie.pdf

[bk]

Maybe DeeGee should notch it back a few clicks. I said nothing personal to her in my initial brief one-sentence post. SHE made it personal. I'm sure she's nice but seriously, read the back and forth.

[Freddie]

And Pacific Overtures was once called Night of the Iguana.

Isn't that in Chrysanthemum Tea, "It's the night of the iguana, my lord. With but two days remaining, I am tired of explaining,  So ignore me if you wanna, my lord."

[singdaw]

 

[Freddie]

Poor shark has a loose canine.

Can't we ignore the "no groaning allowed" rule just for that one?

[Freddie]

Speaking of "Pacific Overtures" - is "Don Ameche" an acceptable rhyme with "Hanamichi"

Asking for a friend

[bk]

She replied with a snarky, "I knew exactly who you were." - I responded with she should just stop and that she turned this into the stupid that it was/is. I then immediately sent her to the cornfield, i.e. blocked her. I'm sure she's a swell person, but she came off like an idiot in this exchange - have you all actually READ it?

[Jane]

From DR Singdaw:

At 98, Dick van Dyke has become the oldest Daytime Emmy winner ever.

Wow! Good for him.  Since I don't watch daytime tv I had to it up. 

[Jane]

DR Vixmom I am sorry you had to cancel A Bronx Tale.

[Jane]

Continued get well vibes for WFO!

[Jane]

Vixmom, continue to get well vibes and going to your original planned brunch.

[Jane]

DR Rodzinski, I watched Green Mansions years ago. I preferred the book and was very disappointed in the film.

[Jane]

From DR Rodzinski:

One of my favorite books, but I can’t imagine the film capturing its essence.

IMHO it did not capture its essence.

[Jane]

I have never seen Wait Until Dark.

You really should watch it.

[Jane]

Two weeks from today, Kristi and I will be heading in to the Big Apple for the Encores! Titanic.

I really must mail you your ticket.

[John G.]

Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.

[John G.]

I must take a break.

[Jane]

Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.

I wish all non believers would be forced to watch this

[elmore3003]

I must take a break.

Speaking of this documentary and 1930s Germany, has anyone read this? I loved The Devil ion the White City.

[Freddie]

The Washington Post article about "Bye Bye Birdie" is called

"The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ songwriters are in their 90s — and still best friends"


Does anyone here recall:  Weren't there serious legal problems between the two of them? 

I guess they've made up now, though.

[Jane]

While The Garden of Beasts is interesting and worth reading, I don't think it is nearly as good as The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, or Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.

[MichaelG]

Memory of the Camps was horrifying. It was documentary footage from just after the liberation of the concentration camps. they visited large and small camps. Hitchcock apparently did the treatment for the film and laid it out. The inhumanity is off the charts. The parallels to today are scary.

That was an early, incomplete version. The full version was completed and restored ten years ago as German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. It's available from the Imperial War Museum at:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/german-concentration-camps-factual-survey

My second cousin once removed initiated the film and his daughter helped get it completed. My understanding of Hitchcock's role matches yours.