Posts by eva luna

I did see the anit-smoking commercial after he died. That's how I found out he died and why . I love his voice too, there was such strength and unusal courage behind it. I find his Bio very interesting.

Another stong and interesting voice was Raul Julia. He played with Linda Ronstadt in Pirates of the Penzance. I loved him in Kiss Of The Spider Woman, and the Addams Family movies. He died to young.

I grew up with the sound track to My Fair Lady. I know those songs too. But as I aged I found the story kind of offensive. Have you seen the English version , no singing ?

Isn't Audry so beautiful? Loved her so much in Roman Holiday with the handsome Gregory Peck. After Dark was good suspence.

[TCM nerd]

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Speaking of stage play / film musicals ,what did you enjoy ?

by smiddy in

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here are a few of my favourites ,both film and stage , not in any order.

seven brides for seven brothers, movie.

oacklahoma ,movie.

eva luna

Hi Smiddy,

OK , I'm a hypocrite.

I do love the 'Sound Of Music', I know the words to every song. I grew up with the LP.

'The King and I' with the handsome Yul Brynner and Deborah Ker (sounds like car). I had the chance to see him before he died of lung cancer and I missed it. :-(

I love Funny Girl. The first 2/3 only.

As I said earlier, Caberet. I love doing my own renditions of Money and Mien Heir.

Singing in the Rain. One of my favorite Gene Kelly movies and a loved song. (he does excelent dramitc roles in Inherit The Wind and Blackhand)

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Anyone Else See Les Miserables?

by BizzyBee in

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i went to see it today - by myself (mr bee is on a golf junket).

i was glad that that i was by myself because i cried so much at the end, i wouldn't have wanted to be with anyone who wasn't crying - and that would not have been mr bee!.

les miserables the current film is adapted from what is considered one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the past 150 years and one of the longest novels ever written.

eva luna

Musicals give me a bad rash. They suspend my imersion into the story. Who really bursts out sining their thoughts into song.

(except for Caberet, but that's part of the story)

I love the older versions that Berangira mentioned and an old black and white French one too.

I've read the book and found Victor Hugo's words so mesmerizing.

Oh and I skipped the play too, when I heard it was a musical. 'Le' Mis'... ok my pet peeve

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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

by Lady Lee in

thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

eva luna

I am so sorry gone for good.

I can not imagine losing a child this way.

I have lost my little brother . So I can undrstand a lttle bit.

But, your loss is so heartbreaking.

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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

by Lady Lee in

thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

eva luna

I know of 3 .

They were in the last 5 years or so.

One was a newly reinstated young man. He was Dfed for being gay and had just been reinstated. Very tragic, as he was so young and desperate to please the Borg.

The other 2 were Elders. It was such a complete shock . They were very loved and considered the nice guys. They had families. Tragic also.

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This generation will by now means pass away..."

by Jewel in

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i haven't been to a meeting (other than some cousins' weddings) for well over twenty years.

i've always wondered what the fds was going to do with the "generations" thing once pretty much everybody who had been alive in 1914 is gone.

i get that they've come up with some "new light" about this topic, but when i ask my mom (who's still in) i only get "well, the new understanding is complicated...".

eva luna

I do a Steve Martin versain of King Tut , but I call it the Overlap.

edit..opps

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This generation will by now means pass away..."

by Jewel in

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i haven't been to a meeting (other than some cousins' weddings) for well over twenty years.

i've always wondered what the fds was going to do with the "generations" thing once pretty much everybody who had been alive in 1914 is gone.

i get that they've come up with some "new light" about this topic, but when i ask my mom (who's still in) i only get "well, the new understanding is complicated...".

eva luna

Undrcover, which 'old belief' ?

There are so many to chose from on this subject...LOL

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They were out New years morning, I couldn,t believe it.

by jam in

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i,am watching the rose bowl parade, and the wife.

call me to the front of the house.

a couple knocking on doors at 10 oclock in the morning.

eva luna

Never here too.

The local congreation does not even meet on New Years Day for Field Service.

Maybe the C.O. is going to visit soon.