(0503) Still dark here, folks. I would suggest readers bookmark Mon 6 for the future, that is … if any friend of yours is having such a family issue, show them that post item. (0534)
10. Just a couple which Pam noticed
9. Fourth “criminal” to be examined … Phillips
The “more” of the “show more” here is that man’s post, which he appears to have deleted.
8. Svali mentioned their Achilles heel was unforeseen error
7. Third “criminal” to be examined … Obama
6. Families will split, approaching the endtime
She allowed liberalism to destroy her relationship with her mother.
She now realizes that networks like CNN were programming her to hate anyone who didn’t think like her.
(0420) Still dark out there. Not as many topics this morning but each is long. (0502)
5. Second of the “crims” examined … Pence
I’m now relying on your own archives of what was posted at N.O., via Polly on Bitchute, on Pence. There was, for example, a chart in the YT posted which showed Pence in relation to PEPFAR and that involved other names which have come up, e.g. Brock, Gates … it’s quite murky.
It also needs to be said that unless you took the advice long ago and bookmark away from your main device, e.g. on stick or hard drive, or you wrote the main points on paper … then when the spoonfeeding does end, when the data is no longer readily available, your own files now kick in. I have some of it on Pence but not at this abode, not on stick or drive here.
4. First of the “crims” examined … Omar
3. Steve at 1198
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2. The Senate sweetheart deal of Thune and Demons
It’s perfectly obvious what’s going on here … Thune is assuming executive powers for himself … i.e. he alone approves the way it will be, what the Demons get of their demands. It then lands on Trump’s desk to refuse. The moment he refuses, due to Demonic things slipped in, then the entire Demon media blames Trump for people not being paid.
The Fox link is below but be careful about clicking within the article … it’s a Fox hard sell of its own wares.
a) Tim Davie resigns as BBC’s director-general – with CEO of BBC News also stepping down. The resignations come as the BBC is expected to apologise on Monday….
b) Belgium, home to Euroclear — an international central securities depository that holds most of the frozen Russian assets — is demanding firm guarantees before allowing that money to be used [by the EU for (the) Ukraine].
c) Spain. Last month, the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested five people in Mollerussa for buying a 14-year-old girl for €5,000 and forcing her to marry an adult.
d) It’s a mad, mad world. “For your information, in Hungary, the number of illegal immigrants is zero. Because we have a crystal-clear system for entries and exits. If someone wants to enter Hungary, they must first apply.
(1632) Remembrance or Armistice Day is on Tuesday, November 11th, at 11 a.m. Almost evening now, all.
18. This is why
17. UK, France and Germany constantly backing the wrong side
16. Prescient
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15. Avoid Bovaer like the plague if possible
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14. TDS today
13. The Italian Job
12. Steve on that issue
‘Mounting evidence of bias!’
Ben Leo reacts to the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who has called the BBC ‘100 per cent fake news’, as she criticised how British people are ‘forced to fund a Leftist propaganda machine’.
It’s around lunchtime and contacting certain friends time, so this is a good time to post this 1968 version. The best rated is 1987, rated 7.9), so obviously unavailable, ditto with 1983, only in animated form. 1932, 1923 are not highly rated. This is a short, made for TV version, with Peter Cushing … it will need to do … best of what is available.
A review:
“Repeating what they did with “A Study In Scarlet”, the BBC series with Peter Cushing & Nigel Stock decided to adapt Doyle’s 2nd-ever Holmes story– and the 2nd novel– as a single episode, rather than a 2-parter. This seems insane, except on watching the result, I’m stunned that so little that seems important was left out. In fact, there are several sequences in this version I have not seen in ANY of the multiple other ones I’ve seen, and several scenes that are allowed to play out at a rather relaxed, leisurely pace. Of course, to make up for this, huge chunks are cut out entirely, and what’s left races by at a frightening pace, the likes of which I’ve only seen in the 2nd half of the Tom Baker version of “HOUND”.
Ann Bell presents a very sweet, attractive version of Mary Morstan, and more time is spent focused on the budding romance between her & Watson than any other version I’ve seen outside of the 1932 Arthur Wontner-Ian Hunter film. Paul Daneman’s Thaddeus Sholto is reasonably eccentric (including his “Elmer Fudd” lisp), much younger than Miles Malleson’s from the ’32 film, not as handsome as the one from the Ian Richardson film, but nowhere near as annoying-as-hell as when Ronald Lacey played him in the Jeremy Brett version. It’s amusing and a bit awkward when, near the end, both Mary & then Watson mistake his actions as those of a romantic rival, when he’s just someone out to do the right thing.
Cushing’s Holmes is genuinely hyper-active in this, as he’s racing to get thru as much of the dialogue and the story as possible in the absurdly-limited time allotted. He doesn’t even have a chance to go undercover in disguise as Wontner, Richardson or Brett did. But I did enjoy his amusment at the expense of his Scotland Yard counterpart.
The highlight of this version, for me, was John Stratton as Inspector Athelney Jones, a man who’s so arrogant, egotistical and conceited, he makes Lestrade look like a real sweetheart by comparison. More than any other version of Jones I’ve seen, Stratton is hilarious when he first dismisses Holmes as “the theorist”, then, only seconds later, begins spewing out his own half-baked theories, which Holmes takes almost too much delight in picking apart. “And the dead man gets up to lock the door from the inside?” “…There’s a flaw there… Somewhere… “
In recent years, the locked-door murder has become to me a blatent tribute to the one in Poe’s “The Murders In The Rue Morgue”, with a sailor and an organgutan replaced by a one-legged man and a pygmy. Despite this episode being near the end of the 2nd BBC series, so much of it displays Holmes explaining his methods and philosophy toward life that it screams to be watched before all the others (except for “A Study In Scarlet”, which should be watched first). I especially enjoyed his meeting up with the butler, McMurdo, who he once went several rounds of boxing with years earlier.
In a bit of continuity I missed on earlier viewings, Wiggins (Tony McLaren) makes his 2nd appearance, coming to see Holmes by himself after he was instructed to leave the rest of his underaged detectives in the street in “Scarlet”.
So much of the back-story, mood and character were left out of this adaptation, yet the parts that are here make me enjoy this as a very enjoyable alternative to the others. My favorite is still the Ian Richardson film, while my least-favorite, sadly, is the one with Jeremy Brett. (Now I’m just waiting for the British Film Institute to do their massive restoration project on the Eille Norwood series, so I can see the 1923 version cleaned up properly. The video currently on Youtube is a real chore to plow through until then.)”
There’s so much I don’t actually like below, none of it to do with the tune or the player … I’m more for the orchestral version. Plus I’m more harpsichord in ensemble … but one can still smile at this:
“Legend has it that Scarlatti had a pet cat called Pulcinella, who was described by the composer as prone to walking across the keyboard.”
I find the piano too harsh in isolation, except for boogie-woogie, where it is, of course, de rigeur. However, this lady does marvellously, plus we have some dyed-in-the-wool pianophiles and a few asked for more piano.
The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, 1920. pic.twitter.com/W0dsACxp8b
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2. American bread (on this Sunday morning)
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1. DAD at 1197
a) As George Orwell wrote, “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
b) Just over three years ago, a 12-year-old girl named Lola Daviet was brutally murdered in Paris. Her body was found wrapped (JH: Readers proceed with caution….)
c) A large academic study of attitudes among those living in the United Kingdom found the vast majority believe the country is “divided”….
d) The government of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is now the third-longest in the history of the post-war Italian republic.
Raja Miah – Betrayed by the System: Labour’s Role in Silencing Grooming Gang Victims
b. War Room: Children’s Health Defence:
Episode 4911: Live From The CHD Conference Day 1
EP 887: Live From The CHD Conference Day 1 Cont.
15. The crooked Senate
14. Crooks Anonymous
13. More on Lily Whitehouse … same old same old
12. So nice to see Sydney dressing like a lady for once
11. The adventure of the lost delivery lady
It was always odds on … where we live, it’s like maze, plus satnav or whatever you call it always gets our position wrong. At least it sometimes gets it right and stays right for months, then somebody has to come in and “adjust” it, i.e. wreck it.
Plus today, it was a female delivering. Now you know my opinion of the ladies … adorable, great at gymnastics, dance, many other things … but perhaps navigation is not their strongest suit as a rule. So I was watching the tracker and she was going to some weird towns along the way here … checked the pinging of the phone … someone was guiding her by phone. I added twenty minutes to my estimation, awaited the text to me from HQ.
Downstairs, I knew she’d go down the wrong road and if that happens, one of two things usually happens … the lady gets caught in the circular road horror … or she’ll stop, three point turn and hover near the corner. That’s where I come in. Calling to her in the next road, I suggested, using semaphore, that she actually go the third of a mile up our road and all would be well.
It was … bright gal, this one, leaving aside ladies’ nav skills … hell, are we any good at empathy or humility if it comes to it? She was shocked it had worked out, then there was yet another text … her texts with whomever were also coming through to me. Someone wrote “delivery completed”, then a text to me … “delivered”. All good, I had the foodstuffs. Went to the site, gave her 10/10, all good, hope it helped her.
Not sure about running this (not great pic quality) and yet it’s important in the canon … the getting together of Holmes and Watson … but the two parts of the book draw it out. Think I once sat through it. As a film in 1968, they shortened the whole thing.
Review: A Study in Editing
“Though it is the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, “A Study in Scarlet” is rarely adapted for production due to structural issues that make this difficult. Th BBC took on the challenge during its 1968 series of broadcasts with Peter Cushing as Holmes, and placed the story in between other Holmes mysteries in in the series rather than at the beginning.
As such, the material dealing with the first meeting of Holmes and Watson can be discarded, although, oddly enough and perhaps as a remnant, Watson is still doubtful that Holmes can really make sweeping deductions from small details, and Holmes seems a little surprised that Watson is making notes on the case.
As “A Study in Scarlet” was a novel-length piece of writing with long sections set in Utah without Holmes, and this is a forty-eight minute program, cuts were necessary. The way they were done is workable and clever, with an opening sequence involving the victims that gives away a hint of backstory followed by the Holmes investigation, but it tends to turn the mystery, until the last few minutes arrives, into simple a puzzle without much human interest.
Unusually for a 1968-era BBC production, scenes are very quick — accommodating all the material that must be fit in — and they left me wishing the pace could be more deliberate.
When the end does arrive, though, it is very impressive, with Larry Cross giving an excellent and very sympathetic performance as Jefferson Hope, and a well-conceived and effective final shot.
Unfortunately, the other actors performances tend towards the wooden, and the American accents are quite variable. Nigel Stock is a fine actor but an unnecessarily dim-witted Watson (for instance, hiding his gun behind an awkwardly upheld newspaper), and not even a charmingly and amusingly dim-witted one in the Nigel Bruce mold.
Peter Cushing is competent as an impatient, twitchy Sherlock Holmes, but for some reason doesn’t come off as anything more than adequate and slightly superficial in this role for me. I liked what I have seen of his BBC predecessor Douglas Wilmer better.
In all, a competent and workmanlike adaptation that doesn’t really come alive until after the murderer is discovered.”
Again, from me: Probably a film we needed to have to join it all up, along with The Sign of Four.
