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LadyWentworth
I don't know why I am up! I actually should go to bed now because I have to get up for the job thing with my sister-in-law. :sick: I will find out my "duties" tomorrow.
LW, good day to you! I guess you finally called it quits and went to bed last night. I did too, but at an ungodly hour as usual. I really need to reform! I hope 'duties' and 'job thing' turns out to be a good thing for you. You must keep me informed.;)
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I am upset because most of the stuff that I request are located in libraries nowhere near my house. So, I really don't want to waste the gas money to go across town just to check out a CD. Besides, there are a lot of people who can't/don't drive. This isn't a nice thing to do to them! I just don't accept lame excuses for things that companies/businesses/corporations/organizations/et.c. always tend to use
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I can see your point entirely. So sorry.:( I can go to my library a dozen times a day to check, well if I wanted to, and I can also check the listing of availability on their website and call them and they would, most likely, hold it for me. I only occasionally request films from other libraries in the system. Sorry you can't do that anymore. Full availability might not last here either, the way the economy is going. Then I will be :bawling:
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Why do you know this? How did you know that they competed against each other? I think you have officially out-done me with "useless" information! :p Of course, I always find information like that to be useful to me! So, thanks for telling me that! Every little bit more makes me that much more informed on things in life! :D
Good question. I really don't recall the exact source, so I can't back it up, until I locate that source; statement. I just stashed that info away in my own cluttered brain one day, a brain which also files countless bits of 'useless' information like you pointed out. It was suppose to be one network's answer to the other's, or something like that. I don't recall what networks they ran on do you? One definitely was the BBC. I may have read it on the KB Compendium site, or maybe just online when researching the film to buy. It may have been on Amazon. Or it might not have said 'compete' but that they ran simulaneously and so one overshadowed the other. I will try to find my source. In doing so, no doubt I will gather more 'useless' information to add to my brain file!
;) Anyway, I am sure we could both outdo each other with tons of 'useless' information like this. :lol:
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I can't bring myself to ever watch the film either even though I like Hitchcock. I also am not a fan of Joan Fontaine. It takes a lot for me to ignore her! Anyway, I have seen clips of it. I am more apt to sit through that rather than read the book. Next time it is on TV. If it is on when I have NOTHING else to do! :D
Well, I liked the old film and it is very classic Hitchcock in presentation but I did not particularly love Fontaine either. She was ok and now that I have thought about it and read some commentary, truly she was too old for the part. This is suppose to be a fairly innocent inexperienced young woman, who is quite taken by an older charming man. This is why I said the newer version of the film fits the story more closely. I guess the big draw for the Hitchcock film was Olivier as Maxim. I am not even sure he fit the role entirely now that I read the book several times. But hey, to each his own. Maybe you won't like the film. The person who stole the show was the villianous housekeeper - can't recall her name now or the actress who played her. It is worth seeing the film just for her performance. The woman in the new production was good, a British well known actress, but the classic Hitchcock character can never be paralleled. She is completely scary and ominous.
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What don't I like? It is dull and boring. It just drags on. Like I said, though, I tried to read it years ago. Maybe I wouldn't feel that way now.
Well, odd because my mother's attention span these days has greatly diminished and she read it fine and did not find it at all boring. I guess if you did not get past the beginning parts, when the woman (who by the way, is never named in the novel or the films) meets up with Maxim and they fall in love, then I guess it would appear to be a boring book. Who knows, maybe my mother skimmed the first part. She reads more rapidly than I do, but often goes back to review. I have not heard of many people being bored by "Rebecca", so maybe it was just the time period in your life when you tried to read it and your mood then; now it may interest more. I find this true. When I first attempted "Sons and Lovers", I could not get past chapter 1, but now I just love the book and have read it twice. It is one of my favorites.
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I'll loan the Bronte biography to you so you can have that to throw at my head. That is a nice hardcover one for you to use to knock some sense into it! :p
:lol: That's quite alright! I have enough to read already and also enough hardcover books I can heave at you!:lol:
