Tweety McTweetersons

[annathepiper]

• 11:41 And now, the cleaning of bathrooms! Which is totally not exciting. Unless, apparently, you are a cat. I have boggled the hell out of Fred. #
• 14:30 Peanut butter gelato + dark hot chocolate powder = WIN. #
• 16:24 Settling in to watch Soylent Green since I never have seen this thing. This ought to be nice and Perky and Cheerful! #
• 17:31 Hel-lo, it's snowing in Kenmore! Winter weather advisory says 1-3 inches but likely to shift over to rain. We'll see if anything sticks. #
• 19:06 Meh. Snowing hard enough that Dara couldn't make it to the Open Mike at the Wayward. She had to turn around and come home. #

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[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

'Soylent Green' = one of the best movies of all time. I own a number of Charleton Heston films, despite disagreeing with the man on every level *but* his taste in choosing films. (I still consider 'The Omega Man' to be the best adaptation of Matheson's story thusfar.)

[annathepiper]

It was quite solid, yeah. And spazzkat introduced the household to Omega Man not too long ago; I liked that, too.

[howlinhobbit.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Soylent Green is one of the best ever SF films. So, naturally, it bombed at the box office. (Not enough explosions nor spif, hostile ETs I guess.)

Edward G. Robinson did that fabulously touching death scene knowing full well that he had terminal cancer and this was no doubt his last film. Even not knowing that, if you didn't cry, check your pulse.

"I've lived too long!... I love you, Thorn."
"I love you, Sol."

Charlton Heston was really crying in that scene. He was the only person on set who knew Edward G. Robinson was dying. That scene was the last day he worked in his life; he died nine days after shooting wrapped.

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

If you're an Edward G. fan, you might check out the book on him my father-in-law wrote. http://www.amazon.com/Edward-G-Robinson-Encyclopedia/dp/0786412305

[annathepiper]

Neat. :)

[annathepiper]

Ooh ouch I'd read about Robinson dying, yeah, but I hadn't realized it was that soon after the film or that Heston knew about it. Wow.

And yeah, the scene was quite moving. One of the things that really stands out about the whole film.

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

Soylent Green is people! :D

[annathepiper]

Yes yes yes I knew that going in. ;) What amused me more though was seeing Heston milk the line when he finally delivered it, complete with dramatic FLINGING! OF! BLOODY! HAND! into the air as the last shot before the closing credits.

solarbird says the scarier thing about the movie for her is not that Soylent Green is made out of people per se, but that they're having to go to such a scary extreme to feed the populace because all the algae on the planet is dying, which in turn means that all life on the planet is doomed. o.O

[akadriver.livejournal.com]

You may not know this - but every time you've been mentioning the weather in Kenmore, I keep looking out the window to see if it's doing the same thing here. The reason why? We have a suburb named Kenmore, too. It's only about 10 minutes away from home and 20 from work. I actually grew up there and my parents and sister still live there. So I just now looked out the window to see if it was snowing. :)

[annathepiper]

Hah, that's funny! :)