Can the adults please smoke?- Page 89

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:19pm

Anyone do the big one, The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough? I prefered her smaller book, TIM - still the best love story I've ever read.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:26pm

YES! I read the Thorn Birds in one weekend. I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed Tim, also - but something about The Thorn Birds just transported me!

And...that mini-series. The beach scene. *sigh*

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:28pm

My poor mother could hardly make it through the Thorn Birds - she had a thing for him since Dr. Kildare

I liked Richard in The Man in the Iron Mask, done for TV.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:30pm

He was very good in that.
I always liked Richard Chamberlain - so read his book with some interest this past year. Not great, but interesting.

He was dreamy as Dr. Kildaire...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:32pm

another book I thought of today - from my early teen years:

Island of the Blue Dolphins.

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[beacon1]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:32pm

Just wanted to weigh in on the Munich Games...

I was sick at the time and remember being propped up on my parents' king size bed and watching their black and white TV on the rolling stand. I remember the announcers voices and how tense everyone was. What an awful time.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:33pm

Peggy Fleming: I saw her at a special Ice Capades show when I was a Girl Scout. It was a tremendously big deal to have her there. :o)

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:33pm

It was so tense (terrorism at the Munich games). And I remember my parents being so MAD.

I didn't understand all of the politics behind what was happening, but it was so upsetting!

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[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:34pm

beacon - Peggy Fleming was so graceful! I wanted to be a figure skater so badly...but I had NO apptitude for it!

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:35pm

Beacon - those images are burned in my brain. I remember thinking at the time - and I was only 10 - that this could never happen again. I guess I'm not psychic.

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:36pm

Peggy Fleming is still the most beautiful female skater on ice - with Michelle Kwan putting up quite an arguement for 2nd place

[mominator]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:37pm

DG I grew up in Boston (catholic prep school and all!)
I now live in a small college town in western Massachusetts

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:38pm

DG - it will NOT happen in Athens.
My Prayer.

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:38pm

Don't look now - but we just passed the Eddie Varley thread for number of posts - robbie should be proud!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:38pm

mom - I'm going to be in Williamstown this weekend. Western Massachusetts!

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:39pm

I love small college towns, and I love western Mass. - sounds lovely - except for that winter weather

NYadgal - I think it would be too obvious a target.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:39pm

Amazing how things get worse--when you think/hope they can't...

The morning after Bobby Kennedy was shot and was in grave condition in the hospital I remember my mom in the laundry room just slamming the basket of clothes down and crying & talking to herself about "how could they do this? how could they do this?"

The four of us sat at the kitchen table quietly. She told us that he had been shot--we knew who he was--and just cried so hard.

I remember her doing that earlier when Martin Luther King was assassinated, too. My parents both just shaking their heads and been grief-stricken. My dad is a retired HS social studies teacher and he always saved the headline pages from big events. He had quite a collection at one time...I wonder if he still has it...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:40pm

Wow - we passed the Eddie Varley thread?!

That calls for a celebration.

POP! goes the champagne!
Who wants some - I've got plenty!!

Streamers and banners - and crepe paper for DGrant

[mominator]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:41pm

COOL!! I am in Amherst, just about an hour away. Did you see something at the WTF?

Oh and WOO HOO!! for passing Eddie V thread!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:42pm

beacon - I also remember my parents just being NUMB for a period of time with the violence.

I'm sure any newspapers from that time would be fascinating to read!

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:42pm

Martin Luther King ranks right up there on my list of idols.

The shattering of innocence they said - and yet, I do think there was still some innocence around that got stattered a couple of years ago.

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:44pm

mominator - simply because it spurred the thought - seeing Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst was one of the greatest nights of theatre in my life.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:45pm

We've surpassed Eddie? I guess that makes us oldsters the HOT group on the board. :o) Woo Hoo!

My dad is such a riot. He subscribed to the Daily Worker for a while so he could discuss communism with his students. Some parents thought that was extremely radical and worried about it.
On the other hand, my parents battled my school administration to have us say the "Pledge of Allegiance" each morning. (The practice had been very sporadic at best.) My folks are very patriotic.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:45pm

mom -
I'm going this coming weekend.

And, no, I'm not going to anything at the theatre, unfortunately.
My father went to Williams (as did my grandfather and two uncles...) so I'm taking my parents and my niece to Williamstown for the weekend to visit some old friends. My dad is so excited to show my niece around. He harbors great hope that she will follow in his footsteps. (He hasn't considered the fact that she's just 12 - and years away from thinking about college!)

Anyway - it's a town with alot of family history, so I'm looking forward to it!

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[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/4/04 at 10:47pm

beacon - your father sounds like a very dedicated and interesting teacher!