with all due respect mrs Pluto...

May I rather boringly state the obvious: that this website is NOT party political in any way shape or form. In fact if an alien form that you ALL wanted to nuke would conceive a cogent, knowledgeable, and, and, and, argument, Mr. .alien would be promulgated too on this site. Even if Mr ‘.alien’ resembled a certain Scarlett O’Hara. Not even dear Scarlett could be ultimately persuasive in those stakes, alas. What was that ‘indy’ film last year where the ‘couple’ went to see Gone With the Wind at the end? Should we relegate movies that visually ‘quote’ GWTW to museums as well…?

OK- some 'spoon-feeding': "It’s like, well, we’re committing to a whole afternoon and maybe going into early evening or late evening. And that’s seriously scary and vulnerable, but if you're down to do this, I'm down to do this," xxxxxx (un-said film's director) said. "We know for the next 10 hours these two characters are going to be taking care of each other."

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“We need more teeth.”

so.....btw...wtsfk

Mr Andrew Lucre's websites are little read and have no general interest. Oh really! Well: I think we could easily fix that problem if our egos were as inflated as many is a 'farce-book' addict:....

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President Obama is on The Daily Show tonight- well actually it was this afternoon. What a little watched Comedy Central show can do to grind traffic to a halt in Manhattan;)

p.s: And believe it or not it was pure co-incidence that ‘I learned the truth at 17’ on July 21, 3015. Do I REALLY need to spoon-feed and link! We invented the internet: don't you forgot what you'll remember? Scattered pictures....! sorry the scilati aren't working on my space probe...

Funny: could have sworn that there was final footage last night (not there now) of President Obama's Daily Show interview in which he stood up and asked his 'audience' to "vote for me". [maybe the edit was 'wise'- maybe President Obama was worried 'they' wouldn't get the joke of asking...] btw Mr President: when a comedian has to explain the joke that they've told: I guess it's all lava uphill to Hawaii......;)...Well:

watch the interview and the extended interview. When have you heard THAT from a President in Night of the Museum memory! As an 'editor' it's a very heartening result today:) AS a 'warts and all' doc realist...hmmmm..Amazing up to that point Mr Di Caprio:)) For us all: “the moment seizes us”

yeah alright gnough!

Robin Williams committed suicide August 11 last year. That man was and IS a FUCKING genius. Too much re-working material oftentimes but you ask that guy to give you a fresh take on honesty and reality even Marlon Brando would have an act to pre-cede. Really! He didn't have to die. Nor do many great good people on this planet. Enough said:

funny 'ting' is: I'd never could written this post unless you'd lying to me....

summer in the Hamptons will never ever be such fun....:)

... . . -after all the press and awards and and and and and of last year...there's a little American film gathering pixel dust:
Boyhood

Ping-pong: 2 drunks walk out of a bar. We r both the side-walk. rip, rap og rup

that love song, Sam...

Hmmm,

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book-Ernest Hemingway

Apparently the First Lady- Michelle Obama made an unannounced stop for many several hours (accompanied by her two daughters) at MoMA in New York July 11 [correction-July 21- I just read hat the First Lady was attending a matinee of Kinky Boots- so why did a reliable eye-witness non-MoMA source say otherwise?- the plot thickens]. {I wish I was your stalker Michelle but that just ain't gonna happen;)} {Now.: maybe} All those funny signs on these computers....
Co-inciding with the visit was a screening of Gone With the Wind. I was almost there but got ‘screened’ by White House security at MoMA’ door before seeing Cecil B Mille’s Reap the Wild Wind. Now a much maligned name for spectacle: WOW could that guy direct. And direct actors.

What passes for truth in America-even bearing in mind that all things are relative!

And they ALL laughed and jeered when De Mille made Madam Satan.

Did the NY Post critic actually sit through the entire film of Gone With the Wind (recently) before writing his now infamous posting/

s? 

Lou Lumenick’s position is a very dangerous one in a democracy. Sometimes I've sat through films with many of the world’s most revered critics who seem to wish whatever film they were watching was something it very clearly was never seeking to be. It was beyond me why 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen (a revered art gallery artist) allowed a manipulative Hollywood score to awash (well, lap) his anti-slavery movie. Nobody seemed to complain about that. 

The New Yorker's Hilton Als introduced and dedicated the MoMA screening of Swing! to burlesque actor Charles Keith (practically unknown now) posing the hypothetical question: what would a documentary about Oscar Micheaux's Swing! filmed by Keith be like? Would they have fought tooth and nail, would Keith have had anything in common with the upwardly mobile black Harlem life of the 30s?

One can immediately think of dozens (if not…) of examples of movies where Lumenick’s ‘criteria’ would equally relegate the said film to ‘museum screenings’. Surely Gone With the Wind is more ado the human race rather than rascism? Aren’t its protagonists just two fascinating foolhardy strong willed people who who frankly don’t really give a damn about the rest of the world? [Certainly enough material in the film to substantiate that view]. Hmmm..you don’t need to walk very far in the affluent suburbs of planet earth to….

Amazing how the same technicolor Gone With the Wind co-cinematographer Ray Rennahan (he shot Britain's 1st technicolor flic Wings of the Morning-1937) could lens an adaptation of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls in the darkest of dark hues (can't find anything about this on google, and MoMA haven't gotten back to me) and for audiences to still flock to it and be awarded Academy's! 

Don't Play That Love Song Anymore, Sam
(a big digital company has only a few days ago uploaded Monty Norman on to the net- he wrote the James Bond theme ORIGINALLY. But boy: could he also write a song)

oh..and while we are..hmmm...

Some war veterans ‘soldier’ on like a Gulf War vet I met recently who after several jobs over the decades is still working, going strong at 69 and would put a guy 20 years his junior to shame in the fitness stakes. But that’s not everyone’s story, alas. Of Men and War is warts and all about those unable to cope (no soundtrack music) (MoMA Documentary Fortnight) following a group of soldiers in a post-traumatic stress disorder therapy center in Northern California. (London-June 17)

it was in fact an Englishman who penned the words below NOT (as many many well meaning websites by American military veterans/organisations etc would have "anonymous'):

The Flag does not fly because of the winds that blow it,

The Flag flies because of each Soldier’s last breath blowing past.

For those who have fought and died for it,

freedom has a taste that the protected will never know.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

but because he loves what is behind him.

– G. K. Chesterton (Illustrated London News)

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the Revolution- Simon Schama

age cannot with her nor custom stale her infinite variety

Imagine these in one perfect one

Brief Reflection on Cats Growing in Trees

When moles still had their annual general meetings
and when they still had better eyesight it befell
that they expressed a wish to discover what was above.

So they elected a commission to ascertain what was above. 
The commission dispatched a sharp-sighted fleet-footed
mole. He, having left his native mother earth,
caught sight of a tree with a bird on it.

Thus a theory was put forward that up above
birds grew on trees. However, 
some moles thought this was
too simple. So they dispatched another
mole to ascertain if birds did grow on trees.

By then it was evening and on the tree
some cats were mewing. Mewing cats,
the second mole announced, grew on the tree.
Thus an alternative theory emerged about cats.

The two conflicting theories bothered an elderly
neurotic member of the commission. And he 
climbed up to see for himself.
By then it was night and all was pitch-black.

Both schools are mistaken, the venerable mole declared.
Birds and cats are optical illusions produced 
by the refraction of light. In fact, things above

Were the same as below, only the clay was less dense and 
the upper roots of the trees were whispering something,
but only a little.

And that was that.

Ever since the moles have remained below ground:
they do not set up commissions
or presuppose the existence of cats.

Or if so only a little.
Miroslav Holub

World Enough and Time (© 2009-Andrew Lucre)-royalty free Mahler re-mix

old planet Pluto seems like such an old guy nowadays...amazing to see what's old is new again...