2005/02/18
condolences; Aviator; Joseph H.; MTC; Maher
Hello there.....
First off...sorry to hear about Alan's Mom. Our hearts are with Alan and Lyn and the family. I only met Alan's Mom once but she seemed very nice.
Well, we went to see the movie " The Aviator" yesterday. Directed by Martin Scorsese and a cast of Leonardo De Caprio, Cate Blanchette, Alan Alda, and others bring this epic movie to life. Technically it can't be beat...direction, editing, filmography were great. The acting was superb. Leonardo and Cate had the mannerisms of Howard Hughes and Katherine Hepburn down great. Cate was especially good as Hepburn....oscar performance there! The Aviator is a perfectly realized recreation of the era and one well worth experiencing. But the lack of a real emotional journey suggests 'all gloss and no substance', and ultimately prevents the movie from being truly great. The movie is three hours long but there were no parts athat seemed to drag. Two big thumbs up.
I received 44 pages of Joseph Hogue's WWI military records. A very interesting read. He enlisted, at the age of 41, on March 4th, 1916 and was discharged Oct. 23rd, 1918. He spent 14 months on the front with the 16th battalion (British Expeditionary Force) in France and Belgium. The balance was spent either in transit, on strength at Shorncliff, Dibgate, England, in the hospital (1 week 'contusion to his knee') and 2 weeks in hospital in France for "impaired function of the heart" caused by "over exertion and strain of duty". I guess he got over his heart condition because he lived to the ripe old age of 93! It also mentions that he was discharged o 'compassionate grounds' (ref. letter to H.Q.). Other intersting things....he had 8 children upon enlistment...six boys and 2 girls. He was docked 2 weeks pay for "drunkedness" just prior to his embarkation back to Canada. Now I have some digging to do.
Saturday we have a play to attend at the Manitba Theatre Centre. We are going to Buccachinos for dinner afterwards and then to our house for a few drinky poos and some games.
Well....keep on blogging...I see Jack is doing well, he has blogged once after his New Years resolution to "blog more often". Hey it only takes 10 minutes once you get the hang of it.
"I believed all this stuff when I was young," Maher begins, smiling wryly. "I believed there was a virgin birth, I believed a man lived inside of a whale, and I believed that the Earth was 5,000 years old. But then something very important happened to me -- I graduated sixth grade."
condolences; Aviator; Joseph H.; MTC; Maher
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First off...sorry to hear about Alan's Mom. Our hearts are with Alan and Lyn and the family. I only met Alan's Mom once but she seemed very nice.
Well, we went to see the movie " The Aviator" yesterday. Directed by Martin Scorsese and a cast of Leonardo De Caprio, Cate Blanchette, Alan Alda, and others bring this epic movie to life. Technically it can't be beat...direction, editing, filmography were great. The acting was superb. Leonardo and Cate had the mannerisms of Howard Hughes and Katherine Hepburn down great. Cate was especially good as Hepburn....oscar performance there! The Aviator is a perfectly realized recreation of the era and one well worth experiencing. But the lack of a real emotional journey suggests 'all gloss and no substance', and ultimately prevents the movie from being truly great. The movie is three hours long but there were no parts athat seemed to drag. Two big thumbs up.
I received 44 pages of Joseph Hogue's WWI military records. A very interesting read. He enlisted, at the age of 41, on March 4th, 1916 and was discharged Oct. 23rd, 1918. He spent 14 months on the front with the 16th battalion (British Expeditionary Force) in France and Belgium. The balance was spent either in transit, on strength at Shorncliff, Dibgate, England, in the hospital (1 week 'contusion to his knee') and 2 weeks in hospital in France for "impaired function of the heart" caused by "over exertion and strain of duty". I guess he got over his heart condition because he lived to the ripe old age of 93! It also mentions that he was discharged o 'compassionate grounds' (ref. letter to H.Q.). Other intersting things....he had 8 children upon enlistment...six boys and 2 girls. He was docked 2 weeks pay for "drunkedness" just prior to his embarkation back to Canada. Now I have some digging to do.
Saturday we have a play to attend at the Manitba Theatre Centre. We are going to Buccachinos for dinner afterwards and then to our house for a few drinky poos and some games.
Well....keep on blogging...I see Jack is doing well, he has blogged once after his New Years resolution to "blog more often". Hey it only takes 10 minutes once you get the hang of it.
"I believed all this stuff when I was young," Maher begins, smiling wryly. "I believed there was a virgin birth, I believed a man lived inside of a whale, and I believed that the Earth was 5,000 years old. But then something very important happened to me -- I graduated sixth grade."
condolences; Aviator; Joseph H.; MTC; Maher
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