Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica]now:B&W photography
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:05:59 -0800

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> I know we shouldn't be doing this on the LUG...but....I enjoyed Titanic. The
> script was a joke, the acting was a bigger joke, but it was a really
> wonderful evocation of a particular time and place - and had staggeringly
> good special effects. Which is to say, it's a Gone With The Wind for the
> 90s---a sweeping epic whose greatest virtue is that it's a sweeping
> epic....but Academy Awards? For that old lady? Pathetic.
> 
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I loved it when she stood up and it was her big moment (in the beginning
of the movie) and she started rattling off facts and figures about the
tablecloths and the silverware. Meanwhile the love of her life is dog
paddling with the Adams Family at the bottom of the Ocean.
Mark Rabiner