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To: Neeka who wrote (369)	3/21/2005 8:24:56 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 725

I think LLV was the most depressing movie ever made, and I can't imagine why it got such rave reviews. My guess is that it validated the true feelings of these narcissistic people who dominate the Hollywood left. In The Cut was Meg Ryan's own choice to make, to get her out of the good girl image. Unfortunately, for me it should have been called In The Rut, or more properly, In The Gutter. It's the only movie in which I've seen a man get a blow job (simulated and not Meg Ryan, but she saw it) where not too much was left to the imagination. Your background must be similar to mine. Divorce does not exist in our family. My mother married again after Dad died, to an old family friend who had been married to his wife 56 years. Dad and Mom made 53. My wife's parents are celebrating 60 years this June. We both have a brother who has been divorced, however. My theory about people being poor character judges is that they go for the trophy wife or husband, and they are blind to character flaws in that person. Hanks played in an excellent movie called The Road to Perdition, with Paul Newman. Newman played a gangster who held wakes for people that he had assassinated, and invited all the victim's family. Hanks was the assassin. But the story was beautiful, dark, and had an unmistakeable ethic for the importance of fatherhood. The killing scenes were staged so that you could see the muzzle flashes of the Thompson submachine guns, but nothing else. It was very surrealistic. I haven't seen but a few scenes of Deadwood. I wish they'd leave out the F word, because it adds nothing to the drama. It might be realistic, but we don't have to hear it to know that. I passed through Deadwood in a November snowstorm two years ago, driving back from Ohio with my wife. It was very spooky, not to mention chancy driving, and I didn't want to stop in that town after dark. I'd love to see that watch fob. You probably shouldn't show it to me, though. I might steal it for one of my antique pocket watches. Have you captured any of your GGrandfather's story? That would be fascinating to me. I've always been interested in mining history and the fur trade. Right now I'm reading a novel about the Montana Gold Rush, called A Roaring In The Wind. It's very good. It brings to the forefront the prodigious amount of research that goes into any kind of quality novel.