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   gggg gggg to Mack A. Damia   
   Re: The Gay Divorcee (1934)   
   28 Jul 21 12:56:13   
   
   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 8:07:58 AM UTC-7, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   > Never grows old, an Astaire/Rogers classic with captivating music.   
   >   
   > Questions:   
   >   
   > 1. Why does the camera pan to a close-up shot of Eric Blore's   
   > backside for several seconds (much too long) when he is serving a   
   > table?   
   >   
   > 2. Why didn't "Night and Day" win an Oscar rather than the "The   
   > Continental" for that year? (Easy question if you know the answer)   
   >   
   > Now for something ridiculous:   
   >   
   > TCM has hired a two-bit astrologer, who looks like a horse's ass, to   
   > espouse her knowledge on the film stars' astrological signs in various   
   > movies. Her name is Susan Miller.   
   >   
   > Last night she talked about Astaire and Rogers and how the stars and   
   > planets showed that they were meant to be together. What rot.   
   >   
   > https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021392/spot   
   ight-star-signs-with-susan-miller   
   >   
   > If you do a Google search on "Carl Sagan, Astrology", results are a   
   > quote where he denounces astrology and spotlights its unscientific   
   > disrepute - followed by a half dozen sites revealing Sagan's astrology   
   > and birth chart. Ignorance knows no bounds.   
   >   
   > Beware of magical thinking.   
      
   (Youtube upload):   
      
   FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS: THE EARLY YEARS   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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