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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:04 PM
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"The Fountainhead" is coming on TCM.
If you have not seen it, then watch it. If you can watch it and do not, I will call you "Hairbrane."

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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:05 PM
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1. Ayn Rand crap? No, thank you.
Redstone
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:09 PM
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4. Judge it, or not.
Everyone should watch it. ;)
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:13 PM
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11. Why? Her books are utter crap, why would I want to subject
myself to a movie made from one of them?

Feh.

Redstone
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:15 PM
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13. Can you be more specific?
;)

What about her books?

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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:20 PM
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15. They're just dreadfully written, ponderous, and boring.
And her characters are shallowly drawn. And her politics is never far below the surface.

Redstone
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:24 PM
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16. All that, and I hold her personally responsible for Alan Greenspan
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:25 PM
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17. Because he's ponderous and boring too?
Redstone
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:27 PM
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19. She and he were pals from 1950 or so
He contributed to lots of Objectivist nonsense.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:29 PM
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20. Aha. Didn't know that. Now, I do.
Redstone
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:07 PM
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2. Complete shit.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:10 PM
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7. I see that you have already watched it.
:smoke:

Personally, I love the movie. ;)

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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:11 PM
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8. I'm shocked.
Really.


shocked.



*cough*
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:15 PM
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12. That is funny, because you are a lot like the character that Cooper plays.
;)

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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:25 PM
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18. And you're a lot like Beavis.
;)
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:32 PM
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21. You are just jealous of Patricia Neal!
;)

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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:09 PM
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3. It's so bad it's good.....
Melodramatic pablum
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:09 PM
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5. Tammy Bruce is watching
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:09 PM
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6. Nope, I'm watching Olbermann. Screw that Ayn Rand shit. nt
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:12 PM
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9. Hmmm.
I liked the cast, and enjoyed the book (really!) but thought it was ludicrous to try to boil all of that down into a standard length film. Just way too much nuance and subtext to do any kind of justice.
Even with their extraordinary charms and special effects, I doubt that Pitt and Jolie will have any more success with it on the next proposed go-around than Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper had.
Nevertheless, Floogeldy, enjoy!
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:12 PM
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10. Ayn Rand?
Screw. That.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:18 PM
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14. NO. Not Ayn Rand. Andy Randy.
I understand your confusion. ;)
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:32 PM
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22. I watched that not too long ago
Might have been on TCM, too; Patricia Neal is ravishing in it...
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:34 PM
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23. I prefer Anna Granite's "The Bulwark," but to each his own.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:36 PM
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24. Just tuned in, for giggles.
Ayn Rand sucks donkey balls, and this movie is a festering wad of melodramatic offal.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:48 PM
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25. Heh.
;)
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