I just received an email from Vivienne. After 6 mos. of chemotherapy and
3 surgeries, recent scans indicate a clean bill of health. Good news indeed!

Sad to realize that many actors of that era are either dead or in their senior years.
Let's hope Clint and Eli have many good years ahead of them.

Great stuff!!. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Just received this short note from Vivienne:

Dear Jim,
Thank you so much for your kind mail.
I am pleased to report that the chemotherapy worked but on Monday (19th October) I am having a big operation. Needless to say I am human and therefore apprehensive. How kind of you to pray for me. I am very touched. Please pray therefore for me on this day and also for all others who suffer. I am determined to get through this and am even planning, when it is all over, to try my hand at acting again!
I shall be in hospital for about 3 weeks and then will go to a rest place to recuperate for a couple of weeks after that but my address is

France.
I will write to you to again to let you know that I am home. I Ieave for hospital on Saturday.
kind regards,
Vivienne

I recently received an email from Vivienne. She apparently has been
seriously ill the past several months, fighting colon cancer. Let's keep her
in our prayers and hope she makes a full and complete recovery.

I received a recent email from Vivienne.
Sadly, she is fighting a potentially life-threatening
illness. Please keep her in your prayers. Let's hope
she will make a full and complete recovery.
She promised she would call me to fill me in on
the details. I will keep you posted.

I was watching a youtube clip of Cinema Paradiso and
was somewhat surprised.  Listen to the background music.
?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10jJw-_3kA&feature=related

Only Marmota can answer that one...

It has been a while since I posted here. It is great to see new members
providing their  insight into the films we all love. 

As much as it pains me to say it, I think I too prefer DYS to GBU.

In fact I would go so far as to say that the whole "Once Upon a Time" trilogy is superior to the "Dollars" trilogy. And they're both awesome trilogies!

Aren't we all lucky that in the end Sergio decided to direct this one himself!

Very hard to dispute, indeed. GBU and the OUAT films were near perfect. However, DYS took it to
a "whole nuva level".

Hannity is a publicity whore and, as FC eloquently stated, a stupid cunt.

A nice tribute rr. 

Your town must give off good vibes.

[Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)]

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)



Afterthought: I kinda wish Jane Russel took her top off in The Outlaw. I bet Hughs would have shot it if he knew the direction Hollywood was going in the next 60 years.

 ...

"This makes five feature-length films watched in the last 24 hours. For me, that's some kind of record - especially considering most of the remaining time was spent sleeping, in class, or doing laundry"


Ahh...to be a college student again. Relish these moments Grogs. These will be the best years
of your life.