"Kind Hearts" and Theraflu
Tuesday February 13, 2007
Day Two of life in the Snot-o-drome. Oh boy, is this fun. Neither fever nor coughs nor a head full of mucus will prevent the boys from whaling the crap out of each other at every opportunity. Bleah. The problem...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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That is a great movie - I saw many many years ago. How many roles does Alec Guinness play?
Eight, if I recall correctly.
That's nothing for a Jedi master.
The snot will be flying around the house tonight. KIND HEARTS is indeed a masterpiece -- the very height of ironically droll "British" humor. "I shot an arrow in the air." (sound effect) "She fell to earth in Berkeley Square."
(I keep trying to post this, and it keeps not letting me, telling me I've posted it already. Maybe if I add this preface, it will be recognized as a different post.) Arthur Lowe -- who appeared in the later Britcoms "Dad's Army" and "Bless Me, Father" -- has a brief cameo at the end as the reporter who asks the main character a question as he is released from prison.
Ah, wives -- danged medication literalists! Fundies!
Enjoy the film, Rod. Definitely a classic. The first murder - on the river - takes place a mile or two from where I live. Sadly, the lovely hotel is derelict now
If they're whaling on each other, they're not that sick. Real fear is when your 5 and 7 year old are so sick with scarlet fever that they just lie there on the couch, half-conscious and unmoving. (They avoided hospitalization by a hair's breadth - thank God for antibiotics.) When they *don't* fight is when you really worry.
Ahh, Arthur Lowe. A great character actor who could have been much more successful than he was if not for his insistence that his wife (an apparently mediocre actress) was also cast in any movie he appeared in. An admirable commitment to family or an unreasonable demand upon the filmmakers? Discuss.
Hmm, he couldn't have been that successful. His wife has only six credits listed on her IMDB page -- and one of those is for a bunch of episodes of *Dad's Army*.
That was my point. There were movies that he was offered that he ended up not appearing in because the demand about his wife proved to be a dealbreaker. Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait is one that I know of, but I believe there were others.
...ooo do you think you are kidding, mister 'itler if you think weer on the run ... (ba-bump-bump ... ba-ba-bump-bump ...) ...we are the boys oo will stop your little game we are the boys oo will make you think agayyyn. ...So ooo do you think you are kidding mister 'itler If you think old England's done?
... then followed a show that I never cared for that much because it seemed to have more to do with the British music halls, the Carry-On movies, Benny Hill, contemporary digs at featherbedding, and timeless digs at toffs.
Irene and I just saw Kind Hearts and Coronets on Valentine's Day, with accompanying scents of popcorn, camphor and menthol.
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