Lola at the Coffee House

Well I do. Money, lots and lots of money.

Can anyone spare some loose change for a cup of Joe?

Strong coffee, cream and sugar, and two eggs, poached, on wheat toast. Thankayouverramuch.

Ah, it was humour! I hadn't realised!!! Disguising sexist comments like that - not my way, but ... okay, enjoy .........

Anyway, back to Ms Collins - shawl and slippers - to borrow something from Found Soul, Pffffffffffffffffft When I'm 78 I'd far rather be kicking up my heels in a nightclub than sitting knitting.

And men of 78 - more Cary Grant please, an elegant man with impeccable manners, at least on screen. I can't imagine him calling people names - even by inference!

Mmmmm ... of course, dear Spendius.

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On first, and last, perusal I would say Ms Beard has no idea. She, being hyper-active herself, has no understanding of Lady Bertram who might just as easily have arrived in her character from philosophical calculation (" there is no sense in tryieeeeeng").

The key to MP, is the name chosen for the heroine.

How anybody can make a movie of that book with any integrity defeats me. It's just an attempt to cash in its legendary status.

Ms Beard does quote a phrase I quoted earlier--"no indolent step" --but seems unaware of its real significance.



I see MP as Jane Austen's confession.

$17 trillion deficit being the result.

Dr Johnson's "famous aphorism" about matrimony and celibacy can be argued with too.

The book ends with Chap 47. Chap 48 is merely the usual method of bringing the motions to a conclusion to satisfy those who need a neat ending.

" Fanny's friendship was all that he had to cling to."

Her fear that Crawford could never be got into such an abject state powers the action. The irony is that men who are attractive to women are not easy to control. A dilemma. Then and now.

Sense and Sensibility.

Come off it Andrei. Name me a skint one.

I remember Cary Grant in some movie or other being invited by Ingrid Bergman to come to her room for a nightcap and he graciously declined by saying that he had some papers to go over.

I thought that was pretty droll.

Mr Grant was Archie Leech, a Jack-the-lad from Bristol. A superb performer on the silver screen. Married five times. His marriage to Barbara Hutton was styled "Cash and carry". He denied having married her for money all his life and I have heard that quite a few actually believed him.

This is interesting--

But, dear vonny, I took the knitting in the rocking chair in shawl and slippers as a metaphor for idle and graceful retirement from the fray. I didn't take it literally. There are many other ways of spending an idle and graceful retirement and most of them are, imo, superior to kicking up heels in a nightclub. For a lady of 78 I mean who has a reasonable fortune at her disposal.

No he wasn't. Not that spelling at any rate.

Aren't you the eagle-eyed proof reader izzy?

What difference does it make to the points I was making, if it might be allowed that I was, if his name was Bert Bloggs? Geezers is geezers despite the spin.

"Even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked."

Whenever Dylan sings that line there is always a great cheer roused.

You dummy, Andrei himself is a fetching looking older man.
I've met JLNobody while passing through the airport where he lives - handsome still with cool yet warm demeanor.

On top of the rest of it, you show signs of benighted ageism.

By way of bump bump -

I looked up a biscuit recipe inadvertently in the Washington Post last evening. Inadvertently because that's what showed up when I searched for "olive oil biscuits". Excellent recipe in its precision, the original source being Southern Biscuits by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, it was also tested by the WaPo people.

Sooooo - another source link to put in my food bookmarks.

"olive oil" biscuits dont sound very appetizing to me. Does that slight bitterness of olive oil bust through?


ANYbody recall what movie Cary Grant played a mythical beast?

I don't know yet.

By the bye. Speaking of Cary Grant. One of his best roles was in "North by Northwest" , a Hitchcock movie. I was watching "A Lady Vanishes" early this AM on Turner and saw a Hitchcockian trait wherein he appears as a bit player in his own movies. In "Vanishes" he was getting off the train at the very end of the movie.

Is there a list of the bit parts he served up for all his movies? can someone please find it and post?

NEVER MIND. All I hadda do was plop in "Hitchcock Cameos" and I got a list, his chgaracter, the scene, and how far into the movie he appears.
Took all of like 2 minutes (my puter is running slow)

Here, fo you Hitchcok lovers

http://www.filmsite.org/hitchcockcameos2.html

Clash Of The Titans

It is a state with considerable advantages while it lasts.