Beautiful writing! I also loved watching room at the top, even though Signoret’s character pays usual price for defying patriarchal convention. (She joins the ranks of Hepburn and Bergman and Taylor in that!) But if you stop watching enough before the end she’s super sexy and inspiring! I might have to create a device that stops these old films right before they begin punishing the strong, cool women — we forget the endings and only remember the cool parts, yes, but somewhere in the back of our minds their punishment lurks as a (shabby) lesson to us!
Thanks so much, Carolita. Excellent point about these films. Women are punished in films made way later . . . I made project of writing about them in the 80s and 90s. In "Broadcast News," Holly doesn't get to fuck anyone, and she doesn't even get to eat. Good girls starve and bad girls die.
The paragraph that starts with “Lately in some quarters…” really nails what it’s like getting older without using all the old tropes. That’s your gift, the way you write about the everyday in new, life filled ways. Also, that paragraph was mine/me.
So touching that you respond generously to each comment.
Lovely to read of your wonder and wanderings in your signature detailed postings of life, movies, and love. Oldster!! Laurie!! Sari!! A great combination.
A first-light snow is such a 'hush' of a word. Back in the 50's, my mother would use fresh first snow and add to her ice-cream mixture to freeze. Thank you for this wonderful story.
Oh man, this is a good news day now! Happy to have more of you, Laurie. You and Sari make a fabulous team.
We even like each other. (She doesn’t know me that well.) Thanks, Lily!
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Beautiful writing! I also loved watching room at the top, even though Signoret’s character pays usual price for defying patriarchal convention. (She joins the ranks of Hepburn and Bergman and Taylor in that!) But if you stop watching enough before the end she’s super sexy and inspiring! I might have to create a device that stops these old films right before they begin punishing the strong, cool women — we forget the endings and only remember the cool parts, yes, but somewhere in the back of our minds their punishment lurks as a (shabby) lesson to us!
Thanks so much, Carolita. Excellent point about these films. Women are punished in films made way later . . . I made project of writing about them in the 80s and 90s. In "Broadcast News," Holly doesn't get to fuck anyone, and she doesn't even get to eat. Good girls starve and bad girls die.
The paragraph that starts with “Lately in some quarters…” really nails what it’s like getting older without using all the old tropes. That’s your gift, the way you write about the everyday in new, life filled ways. Also, that paragraph was mine/me.
So touching that you respond generously to each comment.
Thank you.
Thanks, Dian, it's wonderful to interact with readers, especially ones as insightful as you are.
Lovely to read of your wonder and wanderings in your signature detailed postings of life, movies, and love. Oldster!! Laurie!! Sari!! A great combination.
Hi Emily! Thanks for this encouraging comment. We're off and running. xxL
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Wonderful writing, Laurie!
Thanks, dear Catherine. xxL
Dazzling writing. Superb. Thank you.
Oh, what a lovely thing to hear! Many thanks.
A first-light snow is such a 'hush' of a word. Back in the 50's, my mother would use fresh first snow and add to her ice-cream mixture to freeze. Thank you for this wonderful story.
Ya know when you read just the right thing at just the right time? This was that for me.
Very happy to hear this. Thanks!
“I’m so used to being hurt and angry when I have lived an easy life.” Yeah, I identify with that.
Woman, does this ever resonate! That final paragraph is worth Socrates and Plato jammed together! Thank you!
I’ll let them know. 😁