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Bev - I never mind you thinking out loud. It often makes the rest of us  
think inside our heads until whatever eventually comes out makes some sense! 
 
I regret not being a movie person. My neighbor and best friend, and my own  
brother, both make a living (or part of their living) making indeoendent 
films, 
 and - in my brother's case - also singing and composing music.
 
I have trouble, on the one hand - in one level of my brain - recognizing  
cinema as an art form. Something tells me if it's not written, or sculpted, 
or  
painted, or cooked from scratch, it ain't art.
 
The other level of my brain says that if these people, who I dearly love  and 
admire, consider film to be 'art', that they must be right. I can see a  
'still' as being art, but the minute it starts to move, it gets all cartooney 
in  
my head.
 
Dialogue is something else. It can be written - and therefore can be read. 
 
I am sure a lot of this nonsense stems from being allowed to read under the  
covers with a flashlight (like the grown-ups didn't KNOW). I spent my  
after-school hours at the tiny local library, and the librarian was a little 
old  
lady who was a regular dinner guest.
 
I swept up every day, just to help out. We had a chart by the front door  (of 
the library) where 'readers' got a gold star for each book they read, and -  
at the end of the week - the 'winners' would get a prize - which I now 
realize 
 was just a cheap little gold charm from the neighborhood five-and-dime.  But 
they were real gold to me. I came away with the enjoyment of the  reading 
itself, and the praise of the adults, which was priceless then, and  probably 
not 
worth much now.
 
Part of the deliciousness of the written word.
 
I didn't 'get' the parts of this thread having to do with lesbians or any  
other such - will have to go back when I have time and see whassup.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/10/2008 4:14:22 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:

Actually, I think she say's "I'm a Lesbian", so I correct that.   But 
regardless, I think it only takes one party to stand up for another  
wherever intolerance rears its head.  If there is a conflict, say  
between the US and SSCIA(Some Small Country in Africa) maybe Kenya steps  
in and says whoa...then perhaps France...then England...until finally  
SSCIA and the US start talking again..

EarthNSky wrote:
> In  and Out..too funny...at the end, 
> when Kevin Kline(who came out of the  closet) is being maligned by Bob 
> Newhart, the whole crowd begins to  stand up to support him by saying 
> something like Well, I'm Howard's  mother, and I'm Gay...(said by Debbie 
> Reynolds of all people)....it's  a great movie if you haven't seen 
> it..Tom Selleck is a scene  stealer.
> I dunno...just thinking out loud....
> 
>  Bev
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