Open Thread Friday

Oh geez, this movie just killed me – in different ways at different ages. When I first saw it and was young(er) and single I focused on the love affair. Neither are bad on the eyes, yes??? Let's face it, both Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche are hot – and intensely hot together. Now that I am older, married, wiser and a mother, I find that I remember the heartbreak of it all. The utter devastation that it caused to nearly everyone involved. I'll never forget Miranda Richardson's speech on "Everyone has one person. Marton was my person…" – And Binoche's speech about how it is never wise to love "damaged people." It's one of those movies that haunts me still – for many reasons. Though I'll say again that it is, at times, one of the most erotic movies I have ever seen.

From what little I have seen, even Charlie Gibson was being a little testy with Obama for not really answering questions asked. And it looked like Obama was annoyed that he was getting some really pointed questions.

http://americanthinker.com/cartoons/?id=579

Ha ha ha… That was great!!! I had to contain my laughter from my cubicle so as to not disturb my co-workers… I am going to have to pass that on to some of my more conservative friends.

Whoa! Maybe I should have watched it… I would have liked to see Gibson look down his nose at Obama like he did to Palin. That would have been worth the boredom….

Glad you liked it!

Me either, I'm sure it was no better than a Billy Mays sales pitch…

After a brief and unsuccessful attempt yesterday to cut way down on my computer time, I'll' try and at least to throttle back. Since it is an open thread, I thought I'd give a plug to a musician I heard Wednesday night as well as one for my town. Knoxville hosts a radio program the last Wednesday of each month called "Tennessee Shines" broadcast live from the Bijou Theatre. It is streamed live at 7:00 p.m. at local FM station's website WDVX. com. There is usually a headliner plus three lesser known acts in the Americana and "new grass" genres.

This past Wednesday I heard a young Canadian singer and fiddler named Kendel Carson who was touring with Chip Taylor, an old country songwriter who has written songs as diverse as "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." Anyway, for those friends at BH that like lesser known musical acts, This one was a lot of fun. Also, you may enjoy streaming a "Tennessee Shines" show on your computer.

Even with that caveat, I think it's worth seeing.

Well both he and Obama have a knack for getting people to buy their crap.

To be honest, I'd rather have a bucket of Oxyclean than a bucket of government-run healthcare….

Ok Since we are plugging stuff: http://www.maxineschicken.com/
if you are ever in Indianapolis, I highly recommend it.
It is really good.
We were there last night and watched the Jackson story unfold.

Since it's Open Thread … Is ANYONE else sick of this coverage about Michael Jackson on the "NEWS channels" (all of them?). Dammit.. Troopathon raised over 600K yesterday (at least that's what MM is reporting).. the cap-and-trade bill is getting RAMMED through the House, and yet we're stuck listening to these people talk about Mr. Jackson over and over and over…. (and this goes double shame on you FOX!… no news channels for me today at hte office now.. it's C-SPAN time I guess)

does it work? I have always been curious about whether it works or not.

I'm just freaked out that the "It always happens in 3's" rule came true….

Except for the fact that we know our mainstream media outlets are in the tank for this government, yes, we should be stunned that they are making a circus about the death of a child molester, while the Obama, Pelosi & Reid cabal are about to inflict a devastating blow to the American economy, one that will impact every man, woman and child in the world in a negative way. "World"? You-got-it, Baby! When the American economy takes a dump, everyone on earth hears the flush. If these traitors are successful, in the next 3 years, the standard of living of everyone will have gone down, and they can thank the people who helped put these criminals in office for their little bite of the turd.

Don't you mean BILLY MAYS?

(Sort of like BRIAN BLESSED.)

ah, so it's a horror flick.

Ouch! That one will leave a mark.

I was stuck watching most of the ABC "They suddenly died!" whipped-up Barbara Walter's special. Lord knows what will be on tonight since they used her "exclusive" Ryan O'Neal footage a day early.

Big remaining questions:

1. Farrah was tanked to the gills, "pain free," and her and Ryan were having deep conversations about getting married? And were just about to do so? He was going on about how little she knew of what was going on around her, having delusions, and how they hid stuff from her, and he was saying they were about to have a legally-binding ceremony?

2. Why does one of Jacko's kids have light blond hair? That is a recessive-gene trait, needs a gene from both parents, and it looks like him and his family do not have any blond hair genes anywhere.

Maat, I disagree sort of… McMahon was an icon to some of us, as Farrah was our "sex-kitten' (for those of older), and I would have been upset if the same thing happened with them.

I'll give you an example… CBS found out about the death of MJ… and they decided it was _so_ important to interrupt their primetime programming last night, that they had to do an entire hour special about him? UGH!!!

Just to compare, and for those of you who were around for it (I wasn't)… did Lennon's death get this type of airwaves attention, where an entire network rearranges something for someone like Lennon?

What an interesting choice of films for this site!
Damage is an amazing film – I saw this years ago.

What is it about affair movies that we love? And when do we root for the cheating couple? I remember in The English Patient, loving the Almasy and Katherine couple. Even though I knew her poor husband didn't deserve the pain, I was so in love with this couple.

What do you guys think?

The English Patient was one of the worst films I ever had the displeasure to sit through, doubly so, since in the after-the-movie post mortem over coffee, it was evident that some of those who had just seen it loved it. I thought it was morally bankrupt (I recollect a number of essays at the time contrasting this film with Casablanca where nobility wins out over self-absorption as typified by the "heroes" of the English Patient.) I felt so vindicated when an episode of Seinfeld came out a little while after this film opened and it revolved around how Elaine Benes hated the movie — one of the few times I actually identified with a t.v. character.
Damage is a film that I can't say I ever warmed up to, but I remember seeing it and respecting it for its honesty — as a former pastor, I have seen the damage of adultery up close, it is devastating, soul-crushing stuff.

Indeed. It wasn't just the adultery, but that the adulterous affair in the end led the Ralph Fiennes character to sell out to the Nazis.

This movie really stinks. It's one of these self-important movies where every shot is a couple of seconds too long, every bit of dialog is self-important, and it just drips with meaning every moment. None of the characters are sympathetic, I remember laughing out loud when one of the more sympathetic ones jumps out a window to commit suicide. The people who like this movie are the types who like any movie where the characters have posh accents and nice clothes. If you aren't one of them, steer clear. And what's all this supposed heat emanating from Juliette Binoche – she strikes me as the coldest of cold fish. And in this movie, she's a cruel cold fish.