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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on March 19, 2007, 03:25:45 PM
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I guess for you guys, your thoughts are turning to spring ? but we still have snow over knee deep on the lawn and it?s snowing again today. We had over 5 feet of snow this winter in the Peace Country area of Alberta and the roads have often been bad, but I guess the positive spin is we probably won?t have a drought this year.
Anyway I?m feeling very wintery and my thoughts have turned to movies. So lets have a go at this, list your favourite movies in the following categories: (feel free to leave blank categories you do not care for.)
Best animated:
Best coming of age:
Best thriller:
Best documentary:
Best comedy:
Best romantic comedy:
Best mythology:
Best love story:
Best movie based on a true story:
Best historical:
Best book adaptation:
Best war movie:
Best morality tale:
Best epic:
Best trilogy:
Best survival tale:
Best sport?s tale:
Best super-hero tale:
Best futuristic or science fiction:
Last movie you walked out on or switched off on your TV:
Biggest surprise of a movie you expected to like but didn?t:
Biggest surprise of a movie you expected to dislike but enjoyed:
First movie in which you got a little crush on a lead character:
Last movie in which you got a little crush on a lead character:
Best movie you have seen on DVD or at the movies so far in 2007:
I would list my favourites but the list is too long. ;D
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Diane, there's about three hours work here! I'll get back to this with an edited response later.
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Writing the quiz itself wore me out. ;D
Also I forgot?
Best Western:
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I have to say I very rarely watch films, and then I don't really remember what it is I've seen. I do have a couple of favourites that stand out in my mind though.
My favourite film ever is "Life of Brian". A work of genius.
I didn't see "Ray" but wish I had. Definitely will get it out on DVD one day. In fact there are loads of films I've never seen, probably more than I have seen, and I've seen well over twenty or thirty over my lifetime (excluding future years of course).
One of the earliest films I saw was "Something Over the Rainbow" which scared me when the witch was on the burning building. I also saw "Pollyanna" when my parents forced me and my brother to go and watch it one afternoon. "Greyfriars Bobby" I also remember which was quite moving, and a bit like "Babe", which I've just remembered, which was a brilliant film. "Babe" had a follow-up - "Babe - Pig in the City", which "Greyfriars Bobby" didn't have. Missed opportunity there I suppose. Mind you that follow-up wasn't a patch on the first one. "Greyfriars Bobby 2 - Dog in the City" would have been good had it been created and centred on Edinburgh perhaps.
I also have a video of Steve Bull at Wolves. In fact I have several. They are brilliant too.
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Best Western is Ulzana's Raid. Great script and Burt Lancaster--one of my heroes--is brilliant.
As to your other questions, I must admit I do have a bit of a crush on Jennifer Aniston. Previous crushes include Susan George, Jacqueline Bisset, Rosanna Arquette and Sandra Bullock. (Mentioning Kim Novak would REALLY have dated me.)
Is Zulu an epic? Love it, anyway. And Jaws and The Graduate and Mister Holland's Opus and The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains and Play It Again Sam and It's A Wonderful Life and Bonnie And Clyde (Oh, Faye Dunnaway was another huge crush) and They Died With Their Boots On.
A couple I shouldn't admit to---Love Story (Yet another crush---Ali McGraw) and Caddyshack.(Well, it's just so stupid.)
I might be back later.
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Best Western is Ulzana's Raid. Great script and Burt Lancaster--one of my heroes--is brilliant.
As to your other questions, I must admit I do have a bit of a crush on Jennifer Aniston. Previous crushes include Susan George, Jacqueline Bisset, Rosanna Arquette and Sandra Bullock. (Mentioning Kim Novak would REALLY have dated me.)
Is Zulu an epic? Love it, anyway. And Jaws and The Graduate and Mister Holland's Opus and The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains and Play It Again Sam and It's A Wonderful Life and Bonnie And Clyde (Oh, Faye Dunnaway was another huge crush) and They Died With Their Boots On.
A couple I shouldn't admit to---Love Story (Yet another crush---Ali McGraw) and Caddyshack.(Well, it's just so stupid.)
I might be back later.
I don't think I'll mention "Care Bears - the Movie"...
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I'm not taking part in this one. Life's too short.
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I'll have a go, but I'm too tired at the minute... it may take me a while... :-[
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Best animated: Ice Age
Best coming of age: American Pie
Best documentary: Anything with Attenborough
Best comedy: East is East was funny
Best romantic comedy: When Harry met Sally
Best mythology: Jason and the Argonauts
Best love story: eeewwww
Best movie based on a true story: Saving Ryan's Privates
Best historical: The Life of Brian
Best book adaptation: Jarhead
Best war movie: The Longest Day / Saving Ryan's Privates
Best epic: Ben Hur
Best trilogy: Its not a Trilogy, but does Roots count?
Best survival tale: The Littlest Hobo :'(
Best sport?s tale: Rudy
Best super-hero tale: Seabiscuit when Spiderman was riding him ;D
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Best animated: Watership Down
Best coming of age: Highlander
Best thriller: Bambi
Best documentary: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Best comedy: The Elephant Man
Best romantic comedy: Dirty Dozen
Best mythology: Wizard of Oz
Best love story: Psycho
Best movie based on a true story: ET
Best historical: Star Wars (. . . a long time ago . . .)
Best book adaptation: Ten Commandments
Best war movie: Bambi
Best morality tale: Natural Born Killers
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Were you were traumatized by Bambi in your childhood Mince?
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Took me years and several counsellors to recover.
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You too? I find eating haunch of venison helps.
It's dead dear but.
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Just so you know, I am still working on narrowing down my list. :)
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Excellent! Which list?
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To answer one of Diane's points, the last movie where I developed a crush on a lead character was Walkabout with Jennie Agutter. In fact it should have been called Lust In The Dust. That lust became a raging inferno when she appeared naked again in Equus.
Because of those two films, along with her girl-next-door looks and her heavenly legs, Miss Agutter has become the quintessential sex goddess of men of my generation.
Anyone who says different either never saw those movies or is gay as a tree full of parrots.
I subsequently went through my Older Woman phase with Lee Remick, then a more normal attraction to Julie Peasgood, a couple of mild dalliances with girls like gymnast Suzanne Dando, then more or less forgot about other women until Ashley Judd.
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Don't talk to me about 'Walkabout' - I had enough problems with the stirrings generated by Ms Agutter in The Railway Children!
Thankfully I just reread your post before asking what a "normal attraction" to Julie Goodyear was. Peasgood I wholly empathise with!
There's another list here....I'll come back to this one.
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Aah, Jennie Agutter! I fell in love during Walkabout, pretended it was just a fling during Logan's Run and got insanely jealous during An American Werewolf In London.
I also loved Julie Peasgood.
Malc, we may have to fight.
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I'll warn you now Roger, I'm wiry.
I'm the coach of a soccer team and one of the mothers looks like Julie Peasgood. She can't understand why I'm always in a good mood for her and virtually no-one else and why her kid never gets substituted.
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I used to severely fancy the girl in Poldark.
The actress was Angharad Rees, (I just checked on Google). Apparently she's now a jewellery designer with a website at www.angharadarees.com
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Jane Seymour
(http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/1208/JaneSeymour_Granitz_206231.jpg)
and
Anouska Hempel
(http://cosmos1999.iquebec.com/images/artistesinvitessaison2/anouskahempel.jpg)
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Never saw the appeal of Jane Seymour, not at all, but that name does come up frequently in these discussions.
I can certainly appreciate that she's a looker, but no buttons are pushed as far as I'm concerned.
How about you ladies? Which males on TV or cinema ring your chimes?
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Well the first one to ring my chimes (at a very early age, I might say) was Stewart Grainger in King Solomon's Mines. Later, there was Paul Newman of course, in anything, and much later there was Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County. Oh, and some more whose names I've forgotten...
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Never saw the appeal of Jane Seymour, not at all, but that name does come up frequently in these discussions.
I can certainly appreciate that she's a looker, but no buttons are pushed as far as I'm concerned.
Actually, I agree with you, Malc, and I only really put her up there because she's the one actress my own good woman is most often compared to (though she can't see it herself). But strangely enough, looking at the two pictures above, her resemblance to the young Anouska Hempel is actually far greater, even down to exactly the same hairstyle. :) :) :)
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The pictures haven't come through for me, Tarky---which is a great pity because I was also a huge fan of Anouska. (I'm noticing a pattern of sad perversion here.) I remember her in some awful series where she was a crime-solving Tarot-reader or some such.
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http://cosmos1999.iquebec.com/images/artistesinvitessaison2/anouskahempel.jpg (http://cosmos1999.iquebec.com/images/artistesinvitessaison2/anouskahempel.jpg)
Try clicking on that link above, Roger.
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I went to modify it, and without actually altering anything, (other than copying the links and checking them in a new browser window), have got the pictures to show correctly. How bizarre is that!
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Nope---still nothing and when I tried the link, it told me I wasn't authorised. I'm getting the same wee red cross on another site where a cartoon has been posted. Any thoughts?
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Did you buy the laptop at a car boot sale from a geezer with a sheepskin jacket?
Alternatively, it may be your security settings preventing you from accessing nice pictures of gorgeous women, but it will need a more knowledgeable geek than I to guide you through that one. Is Peepsie around?
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Tarquin
You visited the site at http://cosmos1999.iquebec.com/ (http://cosmos1999.iquebec.com/) and its main page sets a cookie on your machine that allows you to view the photos. You are now directing posters directly to the photo, bypassing the main page. Try going through the link above and click through to the picture.
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The same applies to the photos you posted above: only those with the cookie from the main page can view them.
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You didn't get the little lady to bake your cookies long enough Tarks old boy. It's a common problem I'm afraid.
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I still don't get it - I posted the complete URL to a page on a website, something I've done many times before with no apparent problem. Now suddenly everyone needs biscuits to use the links. Just when I thought I was beginning to get to grips with this World Wide Net thing too.
So, has everyone who wants to managed to cop an eyeful of Anouska yet?
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Most web pages merely serve the JPEG to the browser, but others are programmed to check for cookies or to check that the photo is being viewed on the host website. It's about bandwidth theft. Basically you've been caught with your hands in the cookie jar.
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Hmmmm...well I didn't actually have to visit the host site directly, since I found the image via Google and took the URL from it via a right click and Properties, so if I didn't have to use the 'front door', I'm still slightly at a loss why everyone else has to. And if I did summat wrong, I apologise profusely, and plead temporary insanity, brought on by a gorgeous babe.
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Well lads, I hate to be the one to tell you but I'm getting both pictures without URLs etc etc and all I can say is that I'm relieved my little brother can't see the one of la Hempel because that would put paid to any rational thought for several days. Now on to greater things...Richard Chamberlain (was in his fan club), John Kerr in South Pacific (dreamt of being France Nuyen for years after), Troy Donohue, Ty Hardin in Bronco...off for a cooling shower, methinks ::)
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Reading the recent comments two things come to mind.
(1) Springtime must have visited the UK.
(2) Most of my cyber buddies are like really, really, really OLD.
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I still don't get it - I posted the complete URL to a page on a website, something I've done many times before with no apparent problem. Now suddenly everyone needs biscuits to use the links. Just when I thought I was beginning to get to grips with this World Wide Net thing too.
So, has everyone who wants to managed to cop an eyeful of Anouska yet?
Yep ;D
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Lil, weren't all those actors, er...gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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I watched City Hall on Saturday night - that Al Pachino can sure give a good speech. "THis city was a palace!" I love the lemon pudding scene in that movie and may put the movie in one of the categories - perhaps morality tale, perhaps political thriller, perhaps cooking show.
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Lil - Troy Donahue was one of the ones I couldn't remember! I convinced myself that one of my first boyfriends looked like him. (He didn't...)
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Malc, being gay didn't enter my thoughts for many years after those crushes...I'm known in the family circle for thinking that the Village People were just a bunch of fun guys dressing up to perform a really catchy song :-\
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...I'm known in the family circle for thinking that the Village People were just a bunch of fun guys dressing up to perform a really catchy song :-\
And Neil Diamond?...
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don't let those hairstyles fool you
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I must admit, I didn't get the Village Peoples costumes. I don't think many of their fans did, to be honest.
In their own way they were the precursors of the Spice Girls, i.e. set up the action figures first, find the songs later.
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I watched City Hall on Saturday...
There must be something wrong with me. I saw that quote, Diane, and read it as "I watched Hull City on Saturday...". I've only had one glass.