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51 birch street .. has anyone seen this ??
this is a documentary that i saw on pbs the other day and its stuck with me .. the basic premise was a son who was a wedding videographer had a mom who had died suddenly and his dad three months later decided to move to florida . and remarry .. and it turned out to be his secretary from years and years ago .. so at first it was supposed to be just somethin for the family but as he got into it he saw that there was a lot more to it .. they found some journals that his mom had been writin all those years .. about 30 years worth and in it she talks about havin an affair and bein in love with another man .. all this led to the guy wonderin how well do we really know our parents ?? about a year or so ago i saw the pbs documentary about an american family .. the louds from santa barbara and at first i thought this is gonna be so dull .. but after watchin it for about 20 minutes i was hooked .. and had to see it all .. it was the very first reality tv .. but it wasn't staged like what they do now .. they just let the cameras run and edited it down to 12 hours .. this 51 birch street is a lot like that in that it was real and honest .. and you could relate to what they guy was feelin .. i know my mom was a very secretive person and if i ever found a diary she wrote and shared it with anyone i think she'd be horrified .. but there's a point in the film where he asks his moms best friend who probably knew more about her than just about anyone how he thought she would feel and her friend said after careful consideration i think she would want it to be shared.. she wanted to be known and understood.. now keep in mind that this a a lady that would be our moms ages cause the guy who did the documentary is about 60 years old so times back then were different .. divorce wasn't as easy or as common .. so this lady was not gonna be the stepford wife .. even tho she wasn't bella abzug either she wasn't your regular garden variety 50's and 60's housewife .. she talks about pokin smot and hangin out .. she just wanted a bigger life .. so i guess the question i'm tryin to ask is this .. how well do you really know your parents ? i mean really ?? if you found out later on that your mom or dad had affairs or were pokin smot and tryin to expand their consciousnesses .. or maybe goin to a key party ? ( key parties were somethin that some grownups tried in the early 70's where they would put their house keys in a fishbowl and whoever's keys the lady picked out was who she'd go home with that night .. see the movie the ice storm with kevin kline and sigourney weaver ) anyway this is gettin kinda long .. lookin back i know there's a lot about my mom that i'll never know .. how about you ??
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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way back in the early 70s, i had a girlfriend whose older brother was about 37. her folks had been together for 40 years...and they finally got married to make sure the estate issues were controlled. after all, without the marital exemption, everything would be subject back then to estate taxes...and there was a possibility that outside family could contest the dispersal of jack's estate. remember how out of wedlock was a terrible thing ?
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Permalink Reply by Karin M Fichtner on
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Sure do. I was 3 months pregnant when I married my first husband. My mother went to my minister and talked him out of marrying us. We eloped to Indiana to get hitched. My mother disowned me. She didn't want anything to do with her first grandchild, either. My third child was born before she finally met her grandchildren.
My oldest daughter had a baby when she was still in her teens. She chose not to marry the father; one mistake was enough. It crushed me at the time.....not because I felt she had disgraced us.....but because I had such dreams for her and felt she had just ruined her chance to make something of her life. But she did. And I couldn't be prouder of her. And that grandbaby?.......she is the light of my life.
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YAYYYYYYYYY!! you done good karin...it's hard to get past some of that punishment mentality...but after all, the babies didn't do anything wrong....and i don't see any scarlet letter or bad seed signs on them...
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And that grandbaby grew up to give me 3 beautiful great grandbabies!! :-)
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post pictures....
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I have some on my profile page.
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Permalink Reply by crestofwaves on
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Yup, Karin. Sounds like all's well that ends well.
PS: I watched the new Anna Karenina tonight. A strange experience because it was all staged like a play, but not really. SHE left a good man to run off with young Count Vronsky, and it didn't turn out very well for her.
Jude Law was amazing as Karenin. Usually he is so stiff, one can understand why Anna would run off. Law was stiff and proper, yet sympathetic, caring and just wonderful. He is one of our great actors, I think.
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there are a lot of good actors out there....especially english it seems...ewan mcgregor comes to mind...they sort of have a system and regimen of training to promote good acting. as a result you get the delights of watching people like maggie smith and hugh bonneville...
and as we were talking about great films. here's a scene from a wonderful movie...venus with peter o'toole, richard griffiths, leslie phillips, vanessa redgrave....
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Oooh, I loved him in this movie. I love him, period, in everything. Remember Beckett? My Favorite Year?
BTW, what happened to MrMuzik. He's gone and so are all his posts. Did somebody snitch on him? I hope all that sneaky, behind the back running to the manager bull shit doesn't happen again. I like coming here.
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he picked up his toys and went off...nothing to do with anyone else....
oh do get the movie "Venus" .try the library.....you'll love it...and it is replete with wonderful british actors''the late leslie phillips for one..
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I've heard that before.
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