I finally got tired of waiting for the help desk to hook up the computer in my
room, so I'm down in the lab to check email...it's been over a week. 'Nuff
said. This is probably going to be pretty long, so bear with me :)
First off, hi and welcome to our new members!
Second... happy (belated) birthday to Jen!
Third: re the Bond movies... don't get me wrong, I love Sean Connery, and no one
could be James Bond the way he was. But I think Peter would have done a great
job too... I think that by the sixties, Hollywood and the movies it produced
were a lot different than they were in the forties and fifties when Peter was a
major star, and the sort of roles he'd been typecast in all along weren't there
anymore. Make a long story short, I think maybe if he'd have pushed for
different kinds of roles his career would have kept on longer... any thoughts on
that? :)
Fourth: don't know if anyone else caught this, but :) I happened to be visiting
my ex-roommate last week, and she was watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch...
anyway, there was this one scene wherein Salem (the cat) dreams he's a member of
the Rat Pack, and his first line, after his little acceptance speech, was "Ok,
how do we get rid of Lawford?" That kinda ticked me off for a number of
reasons: a) there were lots of funnier lines they could have used; b) the show's
target audience is mostly teenagers and younger, and there are lots of people my
age who have never heard of the Rat Pack collectively or most of its members
(except for Frank, but they don't like him), so it struck me as pretty
gratuitous; and c) maybe sometimes any publicity is better than none, but
generally the only time Peter's mentioned in mainstream media is in connection
with Marilyn and the Kennedys, and it's rarely favorable. Maybe I do tend to
take things a bit personally :) but it didn't seem necessary!
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Lastly (yeah, I'm almost done :) this Tuesday (Sept 7) is Peter's birthday, I
think he would have been 76 (but I'm no math expert). Anybody interested in
getting together for a chat on or around then? I'd be more than happy to, any
time 'cept between 7 and 9 PM EST Tuesday (film class)... maybe one night this
weekend or next would be better... anybody have any suggestions? Let me know...
as for me, I'm off to fix those pages Geocities ate :(
See ya later...

--Kitty