tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19669102.post1296299940788727993..comments2024-03-20T17:34:06.694-04:00Comments on The Land of Cerpts and Honey: Cerptshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788317865445255338noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19669102.post-40454244449959754422008-07-31T13:40:00.000-04:002008-07-31T13:40:00.000-04:00Glad to hear it. The spanks are on me. It really...Glad to hear it. The spanks are on me. It really is a great book; a classic from 1974. She was also memorable in the made for TCM documentary HIDDEN VALUES: THE FILMS OF THE FIFTIES (2001) which I just so happen to ALSO have on DVD. <BR/><BR/>And I'm extremely bummed to find out that apparently in 2006-2007 she co-hosted the TCM ESSENTIALS series with Robert Osborne in which she picked her favourite essential films to screen. And I must say I HIGHLY approve of the list of films that appeared -- here they are:<BR/><BR/>THE HUSTLER, THE QUIET MAN, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, DUCK SOUP, WINCHESTER '73, IMITATION OF LIFE, THE FOUR FEATHERS, A PLACE IN THE SUN, GILDA, RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, TOP HAT, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, SUNSET BLVD., THE THIN MAN, BLACK NARCISSUS, GONE WITH THE WIND (ok, one clunker in the bunch), KISS ME DEADLY, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, THE MALTESE FALCON, JEZEBEL, THE TREASURE OF TEH SIERRA MADRE, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, MY FAIR LADY, GUNGA DIN, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE THIRD MAN, STALAG 17, MURDER MY SWEET, LITTLE WOMEN BALL OF FIRE and TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN.Cerptshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788317865445255338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19669102.post-67538384073473237182008-07-30T18:20:00.000-04:002008-07-30T18:20:00.000-04:00awesome, i am so checking this out!!! spanks fer t...awesome, i am so checking this out!!! spanks fer the info, baby.Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16234350815672955309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19669102.post-26283055107441185112008-07-30T13:37:00.000-04:002008-07-30T13:37:00.000-04:00Actually, I don't think she was stating her actual...Actually, I don't think she was stating her actual beliefs. At least the rest of the entire book doesn't come off that way. The quote was the beginning of a chapter on European films and how women are portrayed in them. Since nowhere else in the book does she even intimate that that is her particular axe to grind, I think it's probably meant to be ironic or funny. I admit that my choosing of that particular quote would probably make her appear the opposite (in other words, like a table-thumping radical feminist) but my real reasons for choosing it were because I got a good laugh from it as well as finding it to be a real "attention getter". Like I say, she has never come across as a rabid feminist in her writings or in the several documentary appearances I've seen her in. She has too much of a sense of humour and gentle way about her (with that laidback southern accent) to qualify as the radical feminist that quotation probably makes her appear to be. I can only assure you again that her writing is never a humourless, rabid feminist tract but instead a rather interesting history of women in the movies that doesn't really have any axe to grind.Cerptshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788317865445255338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19669102.post-44277607729075550552008-07-30T10:35:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:35:00.000-04:00Don't know what the rest of her reasoning is like ...Don't know what the rest of her reasoning is like but I actually found the extract a bit off putting as she managed to be both man bashing AND Christianity bashing...I almost expected her to be wearing a T-shirt that says "God created man but she was only joking" instead of what looks like one of Bill Shatner's old costumes from STAR TREK. I think before Man invented God (her words) Woman invested Goddess...and oh for the days when my penis moved unbidden!Weavermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09833233577048591427noreply@blogger.com