[dba-Tech] Pygmalion

 No, problem for me, Rocky - I have just finished watching - PYGMALION (1938) - ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdPj_XbF30 ) (it's 5 a.m. here) - and I liked it a lot.

-- Shamil

Суббота, 26 января 2013, 17:04 -08:00 от "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>:
>Well that was meant for OT.  I think I'm getting senile.
>
>R 
>
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>Shamil
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> Thank you, Rocky.
>
>And I liked "My Fair Lady"
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_ (film )
>
>when I was ten years old AFAICR (IISCRP).
>
>There was also here a very good Russian (Soviet) film "Pygmalion":
>http://www.kino-teatr.ru/teatr/movie/8787/annot/
>
>I have never seen this one "  PYGMALION (1938)"
>-    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdPj_XbF30  - I will try to watch it
>over this weekend and I will try to get my son to watch it too.
>
>-- Shamil
>
>
>Суббота, 26 января 2013, 8:11 -08:00 от "Rocky Smolin"
>< rockysmolin at bchacc.com >:
>>We went to see a staging of Shaw's Pygmalion last night - its the 
>>centennial of the play.  Shaw's always entertaining.  Higgins was 
>>played by Robert Sean Leonard - better known as Wilson in House.  But 
>>it was a bit distracting to watch as the dialog led into so many great 
>>songs from the musical and Rex Harrison is for me the definitive Higgins.
>> 
>>So we came home and you tubed some of the tunes, then more of them. 
>>I'd forgotten how many great tunes there were in that show.  Look at 
>>this
>list:
>> 
>> http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57
>><  http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57&show=My+Fair+Lady > 
>>&show=My+Fair+Lady
>> 
>>When I was a kid we had the 33 rpm album and my sister loved it.  So I 
>>got to hear it a lot.  Along with a lot of other musicals - she was big 
>>on
>that.
>>I didn't care much for them at the time, but they stuck in my head like 
>>music will and now I love the songs - South Pacific, West Side Story, 
>>Carousel, Oklahoma, Paint Your Wagon.  That's uniquely American music.
>> 
>>I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face has become a pretty popular jazz 
>>standard
>>- we play it in the trio.  Wish I could sing it. 
>> 
>>Coincidentally, we went to another play a couple of weeks ago - invited 
>>to a dress rehearsal at the North Coast Rep - with the same theme:
>>Educating Rita.  It was a movie a few years back.  Professor transforms 
>>a working class woman into an intellectual and she eventually moves off
>without him.
>>The Pygmalion story but without Pygmalion's moral question
>> 
>>That's my a.m. ramble. 
>> 
>>R