The patient who experienced this extraordinarily rare complication (only 1 reported in hundreds of millions of NP swab tests performed) had an undiagnosed skull base defect. pic.twitter.com/r8yJgHsblT
Here is a list of good movies online via the Kanopy streaming service. Calgary Public Library (CPL) users get to watch up to 10 movies each month. Hope you will enjoy these movies. (Note: Movie links are for CPL. A quick Google confirms public libraries in Toronto and San Francisco are also subscribers of the Kanopy service.)
P.S. I love Calgary Public Library system’s awesome collection of books, audio books, and, in recent years, massive DVDs and Blu-rays collection! The brand new Central Library is really a work of beauty! Library users can actually make five (5) suggestions per month to the library (via our online account) to buy new books, DVDs, or Blu-rays to add to its collection! So far two out of my five suggestions have been accepted.
Recently Guangzhou Dream Factory was rejected as a purchase but I was told that the film is actually available to watch online via Kanopy ! Truly a case of one door closes, a window opens!
P.S. No idea Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward would get married later in life when I watched “The Long, Hot Summer” (trailer) but I thought their chemistry in the film were awesome!
Insightful & frank interview by ABC News (2012), Jennifer Grey Reveals ‘Dirty Dancing’ SecretsNo idea that Grey didn’t know how to dance before Dirty Dancing and the fact that she STOPPED dancing afterwards because the pressure she put on herself. And her later involvement in season eleven of Dancing With the Stars which she and Derek won.
It was fun and exciting to see my blog friends Laura moving into her new place and Ming building his beautifulhouse. So I am quite excited when it is my better half and my turn to move and finally slowly settling into our own little place.
The house was built at a time when solid wood, instead of particle board, were used (for framing and flooring) to build home. And Art, the previous owner, has given the house some real wonderful care and upgrades that we just love and adore. The kitchen is a beauty to cook in. And we are happy that we finally have one of those glass-ceramic stove top that is fast to cook and easy to clean. We now have so many drawers and cabinets (all in beautiful washed oak) to store our cooking utensils. For the moment, we are re-arranging our things to find the most comfortable and convenient places to store them.
The maplehardwood flooring was nailed onto the solid wooden sub-floor one piece at a time by Art. Even the dishwasher is a lovely Bosch which we are very happy with its quietness and efficiency. And the garages provide lots of room to park cars, store things, and even turning it into my own entrepreneurial garage one day. (big smile)
With a beautiful garden, a nice fish pond, strong and durable red bricks walls, and the nice feeling when we are in the house, both my better half and I thought of the Disney version of The Three Little Pigs when we decided this house is the one for us. (big smile)
So we do feel the little red brick house, built by the wonderfully nice Art, is indeed “A Work of Art” for us. And the house has truly become part of our little fairy tale home with a happy and promising future.
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the spectacular Seven Samurai. I found it interesting to see the difference in the different decisions and paths taken by the filmmakers of this remake.
The beautiful Western look (shot in Mexico) and scenes in Magnificent are just unforgettable. The seven hired gunmen (stars like Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen) and the lead bandit were wonderful to watch. But the acting of the supporting actors and the script were less than inspiring when compared to Seven Samurai. There were some great scenes that just didn’t survive the remaking process (e.g. the alarm ringing scene). Now, granted, after I watched the “making of” documentary, I wonder if it was because of the Mexican censor’s handy work!
I recommend you watch Seven Samurai first, and if you are really into films, take a look of Magnificent and compare the two films. In my humble opinion, I think Kurosawa‘s film stood the test of time much better. Just my 2 cents.
I am a closet dance and ballet lover! The graceful and seemingly effortless moves that dancers can make with their bodies just delight me to no ends. So it was my great pleasure to discover The Archers‘ The Red Shoes. The story is very engaging to watch (very nice script) and the dance sequences are just wonderful to watch.
Incidentally, I’ve learned to love films by The Archers team (Powell and Pressburger) including I Know Where I’m Going! It is a beautiful and romantic film. Highly recommended. (Spoiler ending of the film on YouTube, I am including it so it can remind me the wonderful path the film takes to get me to the end. The ending will not have the impact if you haven’t watched the film.)
As an aside, I also really enjoy Robert Altman‘s The Company – a film starring Neve Campbell who “began her career as a ballet dancer, having been a student at Canada’s National School of Ballet [starting at age nine!]“.
Seven Samurai is a great film to watch. And the Criterion 3-DVD edition has so many good extras (making of doc, extensive interviews with Akira Kurosawa, etc.) to watch making it a guaranteed great experience. I will likely be watching this DVD set again and again and I will sure to learn something new every time.
Just for fun, I will be watching The Magnificent Seven next so that I can compare the Hollywood remake with the Kurosawa’s original. Here is a trailer to Seven Samurai.
As a result of seeing a friend’s travel pictures in Rome and as part of my “binge classic movie watching“, I borrowed and watched the wonderful Audrey HepburnRoman Holiday again. On the DVD, I saw a very engaging documentary about the making of the film and highly recommend it. The doc includes,
screening testing footage of Audrey
story telling of how generous Gregory Peck was in sharing the credit with the then new comer Audrey
the dark history of how the film script writer Dalton Trumbo got black listed because of his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. And his contribution to Roman Holiday was not recognized officially until decades later
the priceless footage of Audrey’s original 1954 Oscar acceptance speech for best actress
According to the documentary, the following reaction shot from Audrey was one-take and she didn’t know what Gregory and the director had planned for her. (simply movie magic!)
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