Paula

Bill Bryson book is "Neither Here Nor There" (travels in Europe)

Thank you for your supportive thoughtful words. It's been a very strange day realising that I may never work (for money, lol) again. Horrible shock to have to stop at only 54 years old but then I am aware than many here had to stop much younger. Need to get myself in the best health possible for 18th August when my wife and I depart on a 2 week Med cruise. Purchased the ipod to entertain me while my wife samples the cruise excursions (sadly fatigue stops me joining her) and like you have very quickly fallen in love with it.

As you say not an end but a new phase.

Chris

1.your favorite comedic actresses? actors?
michael I'm with you-Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks together ARE magic, I love 'em...

2.do you have a favorite decade of oldies? do you listen to them frequently?
the 70's is my favorite decade...and I have several CD's with the top 70's music...

3. What are you hearing or listening to as you type this? I am listening to the classicla music (which I also love) the hospital pipes throughout the facility..

4. Four favorite movies [doesn't have to be the top 4]
You've Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
Room with a View
Signs (freaks me out)
Out of Africa
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
Father of the Bride, newer movies
Manon of the Spring (I think)-French movie, and it's sequel.......okay, there's more, but can't remember them all....

5. Are you reading a book now? if so and wish to, please name it.
Just finished "The Pact" by Jodi Piccoult (sp?) it was heart wrenching.

1) Bill Maher..Lewis Black..Joe Pesci..Samuel L Jackson..Larry David..Curley Howard

2) 80'S Retro..Occasionally

3) My air conditioner..

4) Goodfellas..Slingblade..Awakenings..Dirty Harry

5) Just finished "Lucky Man"

1. Carol Burnett, Gene Wilder, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Will Farrell, Will Smith, Woody Allen, the Monty Python troupe, the original SNL cast, Eddie Izzard, Diane Keaton, Madeline Kahn, Lily Tomlin, Ellen Degeneres

2. Love the 70's!

3. Wolf Blitzer

4. Right now I'm enamored with all three Ocean's movies (11,12,13), and their leading man, George Clooney.

5. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.

Can I add a category? Brief sermon first: make a consistent effort to laugh; regularly. I'd give it at least the same importance as physical exercise.

What are your favorite scenes?


I watched an older funny movie the other night called 'Second Sight' starring John Larroquette and Bronson Pinchot and other well known actors - Pinchot is Balke magnified [perfect strangers] and is CORRECTION: \possessed by the spirit of a dead friend of theirs- incorrect\ -Pinchot is a trained psychic -and the movie turns into an adventure that includes passing through a strip club. He [Pinchot]sees the girls and goes into one of the funniest psychic overload scenes ever.

paula

Favorite comedic actress - Surprisingly, Kathy Griffin, and also Ellen
Favorite comedic actor - Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld
Favorite Movie - Arthur
Favorite Music - Elvis and rock and roll from very late 50's and the early 60's
Book I am Reading - An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher

Not much of a movie fan, but my favorite TV show currently is Big Love.

Favorite scene from a TV show (since I don't watch many movies): Ellen when her friend was getting married in a church and she was an attendant. She has to walk to the altar at the front of the church to deliver an important message and she steps-stops, steps-stops down the aisle in coordination with the wedding music despite the fact the wedding has not started. Another is when Kramer takes over a highjacked bus and ,while struggling with the bus driver, keeps making stops because "they kept ringing the bell!"

Ann

http://classiccinemaonline.blogspot.com/



you can watch free B&W movies! no copyright infrigments...


http://www.classiccinemaonline.com/c...toodstill.html

-"The Day the Earth Stood Still "

Michael rennie - plays the man from space...

[clatoo veratta -nick toe ]-all spelled phoenetically -cant spell alien words?
and more words r starting 2 look alien sp?

thie phrase above may come in handy if you see an alien robot?

Favorite Comedic Actresses: Patty Griffin (The D-List), Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Samantha Bee (Daily Show), Joan Cusack, Reese Witherspoon.

Favorite Comedic Actors: John Cusack, Eddie Izzard (must brag on my wife here - through sheer online tenacity AJ scored 2 late-released tickets for his sold out August SF show yesterday - lost them three times because she was too slow to type the required ticketmaster info w/in the 2 min online time limit, but snagged 'em back every time seconds after they were re-released into the "available" pool, and made the time limit on the fourth try - then she looked close and saw that they were front row center orch - $55 each - 2 balcony seats sold on Ebay yesterday for $305 - but we're goin' - PD persistence pays off!), Eddie Murphy, Stewie from the "Family Guy", Harry Shearer, Stanley Tucci, Steve Buscemi (w/ whom I had a close encounter of the third kind - literally bumped into each other while browsing the Latin music section of the old Tower Records near NYU in 2001 - I haven't washed my left shoulder since - lol).

Favorite Movie - (let's say it at the same time Chasmo) Dr. Strangelove, handsdown; runners up - On the Waterfront, Ghostbusters.

Favorite Oldies music: 60's (won't bore you with the usual "never heard of thems" I spend much of my time with, but if you are a jazz fan and have worn out your Miles, Trane, and Sonny Rollins CD's, check out Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller - you won't be sorry)

What I am listening to now: the sound of the refrigerator, and AJ mumbling as she dreams (it's 4:45am)

Book I Am Reading: "The Gathering Storm" - from Winston Churchills's History of WWII; but before that, Harry Potter series while moving back to California. Recent faves - Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and especially Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

Favorite TV Scene: gotta be Kramer's "I'm Out!" from the famous "abstinence contest" episode of Seinfeld.

Thanks Paula (and you are right about how closely our symptoms and progression seem to track - nice to have a friend to compare off's with)

Greg

The first funny tv scene that comes to my mind is from Taxi when "Reverend Jim" has to take his written driver's license test. He is stumped by one question, and whispers to the gang for help "What does a yellow light mean?"

they say "slow down!"
so Jim slowly says, "Whaat .. dooes...a...yeelloow ...liight .. meeeean."
they say "slow down!"
so Jim more slowly says, "Whaaaat .....dooes....a.....yeeelloooow.....
they say "slow down!"

and he says,........... well you get the picture. This goes on for quite some time and I can't even remember how it ends because I'm always laughing too hard by then!

ALSO: any scene with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway on the old Carol Burnett Show- It was so fun to watch them try to keep a straight face while doing anything they could to get the other person in the scene to crack up!

KUDOS to AJ for her sheer will power and diligence - those timed ticket sites are killer symptom generators - my tremor goes crazy, and I have to use one hand to still the other to type.

Eddie Izzard is a great prize - I scored my own (sorry, only 10th row) for Seattle a week after San Francisco. Can't wait!

Favorite Movie - (let's say it at the same time Chasmo) Dr. Strangelove (or how I learned to love the bomb)
according to a Friend who flies B-52's, Dr Strangelove is an alert duty Fav!
I did a show with Slim PIckens and Keenan Wynn. IT was ggreat to sit with them and listen to the talk of making Dr. Strangelove!!

I wonder if "Flouridation is sapping our precious bodily fluids!!"

Steph; I worked on 16 Candles

Fav music: anything classical

Book: now reading "Tin CAn Sailors" the story of WWII's "Taffy 3"

fav actor, my good friend Kelsey Grammar

fav movie I have tons! Just watched "Chaplin" RObert Downy Jr. One of my all time favs is "YOung Frankenstein" "Hump, what hump???" "there wherewolf, there castle,, how much longer are we going to talk like this???"


Chas