Comments on: I’ll miss the guy.

By: Mary O

Mary O — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:21:08 +0000

My vote for worst line in that Steven Segal “On Deadly Ground” movie is below. It may not be word-for-word, but you get the picture:

He expresses surprise that Joan Chen’s character can ride a horse. Her response: “Of course I can, I’m a Native American!”

Aaaaauuuuuuugggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

By: Warner

Warner — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:58:41 +0000

I always think of Swayze in an episode of M.A.S.H. where he had leukemia. In the show he gave up his chance for treatment to be with his buddy. It was a pretty good episode if for nothing else than the performance of William Christopher. Whenever I catch it on teevee I still get a little teary-eyed.

By: corporal waldo

corporal waldo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:13:01 +0000

Michael Caine siad he sacked his agents after the Segal movie.

By: Wally Wilson

Wally Wilson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:53:48 +0000

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy… Red Dawn is a _classic_! Growing up in Montana, we _all_ knew that that was exactly what we would do!

By: LAMary

LAMary — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:15:45 +0000

Jeff, that horrible Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman movie was “Far and Away.” I used to have neighbors who created movie titles for a living (Field of Dreams was their claim to fame) and they titled that horrible movie. I heard a bad review on the radio saying, “Far and Away is what you should stay from this movie.”

By: sue

sue — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:27:55 +0000

I’m not a big Mary Lincoln fan, although I think she was a victim of her times. I am old-school in my opinion of her: if she wasn’t exactly mentally unstable, she also wasn’t aware of her surroundings enough to think her way out of the appalling situations she found herself in. I think Margaret Mitchell knew exactly what she was doing when she developed Scarlett O’Hara; I just don’t like her. I would have loved to see a Scarlett with less Mary Lincoln in her and more Mary Chesnut. That would have been interesting.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:45:06 +0000

defies societal expectations (rejecting mourning, serial marriage)

THAT’S the key point. Women have always been indispensible to society(!) - but the idea of openly standing athwart societal expectations, and shouting ‘Stop’ (to paraphrase WFB!) - that’s the ‘feminism’.

Tell you what - apply the ‘feminism’ paradigm to Mary Lincoln’s later life, and you get a real-life example of a sort of yankee Scarlett. Jean Baker wrote a fabulous book about her, and one cannot help but admire her.

Remember how she was legally declared insane? This was because she enjoyed shopping - it was an outlet for her, and she bought things with her own money that she didn’t actually need! (As Baker says, that sounds like a modern American consumer, not a crazy person!)

It flatly amazed me to read that in the space of one day, she returned home (a residence in Chicago) from shopping, there to find the police waiting for her, with an arrest warrant and a summons to court. They took her downtown, where a jury (all men) was already empaneled, and where “her” lawyer (selected by her son Robert) was waiting. She saw Robert sitting there, adn realized it was his doing….and the trial went forward, and was submitted to the jury, which reached its finding that she was insane, and they took her away to an asylum all before the sun went down!!!

There she remained for 3 months, but she got the help of a woman who was acting as her legal counsel, despite that women were not admitted to the bar in Illinois, and she gained her freedom again.

Reading the story, one becomes quite angry at Robert Lincoln, and Leonard Swett, and David Davis….although in the end, Robert did seem to be motivated by a genuinely protective impulse toward his mother (he feared she’d lose the annual stipend that congress somewhat grudgingly approved for her year to year, and he never spent a penny of her money).

Mary always gets a very bad press - because she willfully did what she thought best, or simply what she wanted to do; despite the best efforts of powerful, connected men to control (or literally imprison) her

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:23:45 +0000

Scarlett O’Hara is most definitely a feminist, although she doesn’t really know what that is, yet. She’s a woman perfectly capable of competing with a man at nearly every level, but she lives in a world where women’s lives are more circumscribed than they are in, oh, what? Latter-day Saudi Arabia?

She runs a household, defies societal expectations (rejecting mourning, serial marriage), runs a business, works in the cotton fields alongside the slaves, has three children by three different baby daddies and still looks aces in a red velvet dress. She bosses all the men in her life around. She shoots a Yankee in the face and buries the body under the scuppernong vines. What else? Don’t get me started — I can bore you all night.

By: michaelj

michaelj — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:42:46 +0000

Scarlet, a feminist ? You have to do better than that. Margaret Atwood is so good she can write rings around anybody you bring up. .nk pu [ k' pp Wow, Feminism in movies, hard '

By: michaelj

michaelj — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:30:05 +0000

Nobody authorized the invasion and nobodddddddddy sure as shit authorized the occupation, W is out on a limb with Cheney and Perle and those aholes that signed the PNAC letters

One thing’s for sure, nobody in Congess ever signed on for either the invasion or theo ccupation. Read the law.