More Holiday Films & this and that---- Yesterday was cleaning day at the nest and after it was done, I settled down to watch an old 1940's film - "It's A Date" with the wonderful Deanna Durbin. She sings 3 or 4 songs and ends the film singing "Ave Maria." Wonderful voice, frothy story, fun and happy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032644/
Later in the day, after I had filled the bird feeders and fixed a bite to eat, I watched "Donovans Reef (1963)." Christmas on a tropical island. The lovely Dorothy Lamore, 49 years old and a Woman, with a capital W, sings some of "Silent Night" in a deep contralto.Lee Marvin has a very funny role as Gilhooly, who received a choo-choo train for Christmas and is thrilled and mesmerized as he watches it go around the intricate track set-up.Nice island music score, and ole John Wayne even manages to be pleasant.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057007/
COMMENT:
From pleasant to unpleasant. The 19 year old shooter who killed 8 and wounded many more at the Omaha, NE mall just gives me the willys. Where are we safe from troubled and addicted fools these days? No where it seems.Hard to imagine but back when I was a girl, this boy would have been committed by his family to a hospital until Doctors said he was stable. Sometime in the 60's it was decided that was cruel and patients had the right to say if they felt they needed to be in a facility.Don't think I am unsympathetic because my own sister was mentally ill for years. She was part of the system before the 1960's and after. Believe me, before was better in that we knew she was clean, had heat and food, and wasn't sleeping in some doorway. Which she did later.I hope the victims and families of this crazy guy will take comfort from the prayers being said for them. Because the system has let them down - badly. The Ancient Pelicans opinion, folks.
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