I'm heading upstairs now to catch An American in Paris. I like your idea of two movies, same type of role. I'll try to think of one to post in the A.M. And, please stay off my wave length. It's scary. (lol)
GO, YANKEES!
sorry about the game bree..am glad it's going to 7 makes it more interesting yes? :-)
have an actress in mind till the new game is sorted out..
Doctor
Nun
Watress(in at least 2 movies i can think of )
Prostitute...
see you all tomorrow
I'm thinking Susan Sarandon, but the only movie I can think of in which she played a doctor is a TV movie.
Ice Bound (TV) - Doctor
Dead Man Walking - Nun
White Palace and Thelma and Louise- Waitress
Pretty Baby - Prostitute
And, if it's not Susan Sarandon, how about:
Jodie Foster
Doctor - Contact
Nun - Dangerous Lives of Altar boys
Prostitute - Shadows and Fog
Waitress - The Accused
doctor was the "hunger" and she also played a waitress in Atlantic City :-) you are too good to fool.
Aaah. I didn't see the Hunger, but I do remember her washing her hands with lemon to get rid of the smell of fish in Atlantic City while Burt Lancaster watched her through the window. That was a good one, Willow, and believe me, it wasn't easy.
If someone would like to ask one, please feel free to do so.
Have y'all heard about the new PBS series about Broadway musicals? It may have started last nite where you are, but it will be running for a week here - hopefully you can catch it.
I started a thread about it:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36716&highlight=
Thanks Mac.
I missed it last night, (wasn't aware that it was on) but will be sure to tape or watch it tonight. It's on for two hours and it looks like it concludes tomorrow night.
Bree: I want you to know that I wish the results of the game had been different - for your sake. Try to watch the Broadway special Mac mentioned here. It might cheer you up. I loved last night's show.
Thanks, Raggedy -- I'm sure the Broadway special will be just the thing to cheer me up. In the meantime, I'm finding consolation in this quotation from an essay called "The Green Fields of the Mind" by A. Bartlett Giamatti (the Renaissance scholar and former president of Yale who became baseball commissioner). It perfectly describes the way I feel today:
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.
Time for you to hop on over to Mac's Broadway thread and cheer up.
(Great quote. That really sums it all up. )
This actor was:
Priest (at least 4 times)
Attorney (at least twice)
Judge (at least twice)
Newspaper publisher
I'll think about this on my way to my piano lesson (and maybe even during it!)
I hope you enjoyed your lunch. How many times did you mention how much you love being retired?
Not enough.
Enjoy your lesson. And, don't forget Broadway tonight on PBS.
Oh, wait, it's got to be Spencer Tracy! The attorney roles would be in Adam's Rib and Inherit the Wind, and at least two of the priest roles would be in the Boys Town movies. But I haven't worked out the others yet, so let me work on it for a while.
I thought you might (have loved Clemente). He was some player, wasn't he?
Glad to hear I'm on the right track with Tracy. I'm still thinking about which movies he played those roles in, but the PBS Broadway show is about to start here, so I'll be back tomorrow.
I think I've got 'em all.
Priest:
San Francisco
Boys Town
Men of Boys Town
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Attorney:
Adam's Rib
Inherit the Wind
Judge:
Cass Timberlane (this was the toughest one to find!)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Newspaper publisher:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Yes indeed, Bree. They're all correct. I thought Cass Timberlane might be tough, but I wanted "two" judges.
I saw Cass Timberlane and San Francisco on TCM recently. Although I had enjoyed the book Cass Timberlane (in my teens) the movie was more sudsy than an ordinary soap, but Tracy and Lana Turner were a delight.
Have you got time to ask a question? (What music are your learning at your class?)
I've got the time, but, sadly, no ideas at the moment. I'll try to come up with something this morning.
I've just started playing a piece called "Passepied", one of the movements in Debussy's Suite Bergamasque (which also contains the better-known Clair de Lune). It looks simple on the page, but it's deceptively difficult.
