2006-02-26 17:35:16.0
Kim: So how does this book chat start? I missed the last one
2006-02-26 17:35:44.0
BGE: each person takes a turn and we all pitch in when we want to!
2006-02-26 17:35:56.0
BGE: It seemed to work last time, I think?
2006-02-26 17:36:16.0
Pauline: I am stil writing my notes.
2006-02-26 17:36:22.0
BGE: notes?
2006-02-26 17:36:31.0
Sandra Pierce: notes?
2006-02-26 17:36:37.0
BGE: ???
2006-02-26 17:36:39.0
Kim: Were we supposed to take notes?
2006-02-26 17:36:41.0
Pauline: Didn't you all paste in notes last time?
2006-02-26 17:36:42.0
Colleen: Notes? Oops. ... I guess we're ready. I'll start and then alpha order by names on right side.
2006-02-26 17:36:54.0
BGE: Hey, ginger
2006-02-26 17:36:57.0
Sandra Pierce: Hey Ginger!
2006-02-26 17:37:03.0
Colleen: Hi Ginger, we
2006-02-26 17:37:08.0
Colleen: are just starting
2006-02-26 17:37:10.0
Colleen:
2006-02-26 17:37:42.0
suncoast: I never know what in the hell time this takes place. I thought 5:30 MST was 7:30 EST.
2006-02-26 17:38:22.0
Colleen: btw, Lisa W is just lurking tonight - she hasn't read the book, but wants to see how the book club chat works.
2006-02-26 17:38:25.0
suncoast: So after that rant Hi everybody.
2006-02-26 17:38:40.0
Lisa W: Thanks for letting me sit in
2006-02-26 17:38:52.0
Sandra Pierce: Hopefully, you will want to read the book after this, Lisa!
2006-02-26 17:39:01.0
Kim: Lisa - if you're just lurking you're supposed to supply the wine for everyone
2006-02-26 17:39:13.0
Lisa W: Now that I can do - red or white?
2006-02-26 17:39:23.0
Sandra Pierce: I've got a glass of shiraz by me.
2006-02-26 17:39:28.0
Kim: Red please
2006-02-26 17:39:28.0
suncoast: Red for me, Chianti
2006-02-26 17:39:42.0
Kim: Hmmm...now that I think about it, I have some primitivo downstairs
2006-02-26 17:39:54.0
Pauline: We are having coffe.
2006-02-26 17:40:05.0
Colleen: Things I liked: Lots of Venice history, even though not much new to those familiar with it. He made the people come alive.
2006-02-26 17:40:06.0
Sandra Pierce: My 10 yr. old just changed my color. Kids these days...
2006-02-26 17:40:09.0
suncoast: Regualr or Unleaded?
2006-02-26 17:40:44.0
BGE: I find the book fascinating...how does he get to meet all these people and get invited into their lives like this? Wonder if I can manage that in my upcoming 11 days in Venice? Also interesting how the political crap swims to the surface, no matter what the ordinary everyday folks are trying to do, in this case, trying to rebuild this magnificent place. I also have never been to Venice so that makes it doubly intriguing for me to read. I like his style of writing fact and making it read like a novel...makes it not so dry and boring as some non-fiction can be.
2006-02-26 17:41:21.0
Kim: Ooh - is it me now? Do I do likes and dislikes or only likes?
2006-02-26 17:41:29.0
BGE: both
2006-02-26 17:41:32.0
Colleen: Interesting insight into Venice politics, and OMG I couldn't believe the problems the firefighters had with wrong hoses, etc. ... guess I'm DONE now.
2006-02-26 17:41:59.0
Colleen: Kim - whatever works for you.
2006-02-26 17:42:17.0
Colleen: Please type DONE when you're finished with your comments.
2006-02-26 17:42:38.0
suncoast: Are we going in alphabetical order?
2006-02-26 17:42:48.0
Kim: I agree with Brenda, I like how his story reads like a novel though it's non-fiction but I got the distinct impression that most of his time and resulting information came from ex-pat types (US and British) rather than "true" Venetians, so I'm left to wonder if his view has been skewered
2006-02-26 17:43:07.0
suncoast: Good Point
2006-02-26 17:43:29.0
BGE: ditto
2006-02-26 17:43:41.0
Kim: Okay - that's it for me - sorry did I jump on Ginger (i was going by board names )
2006-02-26 17:43:54.0
Colleen: Ginger - yes alpha by screen/board name at right.
2006-02-26 17:43:55.0
Pauline: Here are my notes looking at the chapters. But I don't know if this will copy in. I liked the book. The story of the Fenice burning was interesting and so were the other stories. It felt more like a collection of short stories written after a long term stay. The central story was the burning and rebuilding of La Fenice. That is the theme carried thru the chapters.City of Falling AngelsJohn BerendtChapters:Prologue: The Venice Effect1. Evening in VeniceThe night the Fenice burned. Seguso, Count Marcello, Save Venice Foundation, Ludovico De Luigi2. Dust & AshesArrival, general intro.3. At Water LevelHis apartment.4. Sleep WalkingHis neighborhood, plant man, trapping pigeons, guy who dresses in uniforms, son of Giuseppe Volpi5. Slow BurnFenice6. The Rat Man of TrevisoCarnivalle, rat man7. Glass WarfareSeguso8. Expatriotes: The First Familycurtis family9. The Last CantoHenry James, Ezra Pound, Rylands10. For a Couple of BucksFenice11. Opera BuffaRebuilding Fenice (Buffa means comic or clown)12. Beware of Falling AngelsSave Venice foundation.13. The Man Who Loved OthersArtist who died.14. The Inferno RevisitedFenice.15. Open HouseFenice reopens.
2006-02-26 17:44:14.0
Pauline: Okay, that did not work.
2006-02-26 17:44:45.0
Colleen: but I think your idea is right - short stories tied together by the fire
2006-02-26 17:44:48.0
Kim: No I got it; good summation
2006-02-26 17:45:20.0
suncoast: Good thing too because I read it 3-4 weeks ago and I appreciate the refresher.
2006-02-26 17:45:24.0
Pauline: So he writes about La Fenice, and ties it all together with stories of other Venice people. But you have to wonder how he chose which things to include.
2006-02-26 17:45:42.0
Colleen: Yes - 7 years off and on in Venice??
2006-02-26 17:46:17.0
Pauline: Why the rat-man story? To show how someone from a normal background can make it big? To point out that Venice does not solve its rat problem?
2006-02-26 17:46:28.0
suncoast: I liked the Carnival Penis and you-know-what costumes:">
2006-02-26 17:46:36.0
Pauline: DONE
2006-02-26 17:46:50.0
Kim: Good point; now you've got me wondering about what was excluded; could this be all there was that was "interesting"
2006-02-26 17:48:20.0
suncoast: I think he chose people that were quirky.
2006-02-26 17:48:37.0
BGE: I think it must have been a ride to get behind the scenes so to speak and see the real workings of the people with the perceived power
2006-02-26 17:48:53.0
Pauline: Looking at the non-Fenice chapters we have: his apartment, his neighborhood, carnivalle party and rat man, seguso glass company, curtis family and palazzo, henry james and ezra pound and foundation, save venice foundation, the artist who maybe killed himself.
2006-02-26 17:49:18.0
Colleen: Kim - to go back to your comments for a sec: Besides the ex-pat Laurentzens (sp?) didn't he talk to a lot of Venetians? (Segusos, city officials)
2006-02-26 17:49:23.0
Pauline: Maybe he was choosing one story from each of the things Venice is known for. I liked the book and liked the details.
2006-02-26 17:49:59.0
BGE: He certainly taught me a lot about the various people like Ezra Pound and Henry James and their assorted family members...cool!
2006-02-26 17:50:02.0
suncoast: Do you think though that he ever became part of the Venice Set?
2006-02-26 17:50:05.0
Sandra Pierce: I thought it was like an Oreo - good outsides, different inside. I just finished the book and was pleasantly surprised to find that he kind of tied all the people and loose ends together. I loved the first part and was very intrigued, but kind of lost me a bit in the middle. Perhaps it was just poor timing for me. I agree with Pauline that it was more a collection of short stories. But l did like the characters, like the Rat Man and the guy who had the space station on the Guideco. I liked the Ezra Pound story. I went back today to the beginning of the book and he said that he decided to write a book not Venice per se but about the people who lived there and they were people who lived there a long time. Not transients. I also liked the stories about how the palaces got split off and sold. I would recommend this book to others and I will go back and read it again. The political stuff did not interest me too much - hey, I'm from Chicago. We've had that stuff going on here for years!
2006-02-26 17:50:27.0
Kim: yeah - but he seemed to get his details from the laurentzens or his introductions through them, which led me to wonder how much interaction he really had with Venetians versus just a few interviews here and there
2006-02-26 17:51:10.0
Sandra Pierce: Good point Kim - he definitley got to know the cream of the crop Venetians.
2006-02-26 17:51:41.0
Pauline: Normally I have a hard time reading non-fiction (unless it is about web design). But I read this one straight through and enjoyed it. He made it more like a novel.
2006-02-26 17:51:55.0
BGE: It is so like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...both books show how the beautiful cities are soooo luscious oin the outside and seething below the surface with the political stuff and the personalities that clash...nice-nice to each other's face and then ziiiiiiiiiiiiing!
2006-02-26 17:52:02.0
suncoast: Expat Ventians, except for the Seguso's and were the the cream?
2006-02-26 17:52:06.0
Colleen: Just wondering how much language played a part - he speaks english, the American and British expats share a language. Even though he spoke Italian (but not Venetian) that affected who he felt comfortable with?
2006-02-26 17:52:15.0
BGE: maybe...
2006-02-26 17:52:22.0
BGE: good point!
2006-02-26 17:52:35.0
Pauline: Good point Colleen.
2006-02-26 17:52:57.0
suncoast: I want to see the pieces Archimedes made from the fire.
2006-02-26 17:53:08.0
Pauline: It made me want to return to Venice. Maybe the 2 nights I spent there in 1996 were note enough.
2006-02-26 17:53:12.0
Colleen: Has anyone looked at Roz's links for Seguso
2006-02-26 17:53:16.0
BGE: YES!
2006-02-26 17:53:17.0
Colleen: ?
2006-02-26 17:53:21.0
suncoast: I found several pieces on ebay
2006-02-26 17:53:21.0
BGE: They were excellent...
2006-02-26 17:53:26.0
Pauline: I did - but did not like the stuff he makes.
2006-02-26 17:53:27.0
suncoast: Wonderful
2006-02-26 17:53:27.0
Sandra Pierce: I think Segusos were respected in Venice.
2006-02-26 17:53:35.0
Colleen: PAULINE!! You know you need to go with me and Shannon.
2006-02-26 17:53:54.0
Pauline: Colleen, we almost booked a flight to join you guys next month!!
2006-02-26 17:53:54.0
BGE: wouldn't this make a killer movie?
2006-02-26 17:54:01.0
Kim: Yeah - looking at Pauline's chapter break down - the Segusos were Venetian, Count Marcello (but how much interaction did he really have), Son of Giuseppe Volpi, The man who loved other artists, and his interaction with the "arsonists" families
2006-02-26 17:54:03.0
Sandra Pierce: I wrote that I have an Archimede Seguso piece in the Jan. blog.
2006-02-26 17:54:04.0
Pauline: YES - it would be a good movie.
2006-02-26 17:54:18.0
Colleen: Right, Sandra! Must go look at it again.
2006-02-26 17:54:21.0
suncoast: I loved that piece!
2006-02-26 17:54:36.0
BGE: directed by Clint Eastwood....
2006-02-26 17:54:47.0
Pauline: Okay - maybe I looked too quickly at the pieces. Or maybe I am not a glass person.
2006-02-26 17:54:51.0
suncoast: Do you think they ever reallly solved the mystery?
2006-02-26 17:54:55.0
Sandra Pierce: Yes, that bit about the supposed arsonists' moms not speaking and worrying about their sons was a good one.
2006-02-26 17:55:03.0
Pauline: It does not seem so from the book.
2006-02-26 17:55:15.0
Sandra Pierce: I don't think they did.
2006-02-26 17:55:23.0
BGE: apparently...the two electricians were charged...read that in the links that Roz posted...
2006-02-26 17:55:42.0
suncoast: Also the book devolved from the fire to infighting and politics.
2006-02-26 17:55:43.0
BGE: they allegedly set the fire because they were soooo in debt
2006-02-26 17:55:51.0
Sandra Pierce: I thought that the prosecutor Casson was an interesting character.
2006-02-26 17:56:26.0
Sandra Pierce: But it was the one guy's dad who set them up in a business front and was making the cash...
2006-02-26 17:56:30.0
Colleen: Yes - I liked Casson, too. If you read Midnight in Sicily you know that they have no respect for prosecutors.
2006-02-26 17:56:48.0
Colleen: Sorry - "they" being bad guys.
2006-02-26 17:57:01.0
Pauline: My feeling from reading the book is that it was an accident, but they had it changed to arson so the city gov't people could not be sued.
2006-02-26 17:57:14.0
Kim: that's the feeling I got too
2006-02-26 17:57:15.0
BGE: ahhhhhhh, never thought about that...
2006-02-26 17:57:32.0
BGE: but people were charged...wait, I'll get the link...
2006-02-26 17:57:34.0
suncoast: My God coming from the construction capitol of the US I can't imagine the nightmare of having to try and reconstruct the Fenice
2006-02-26 17:57:40.0
Sandra Pierce: good point of view, Pauline
2006-02-26 17:58:04.0
suncoast: And the mess about the bidding.
2006-02-26 17:58:10.0
Pauline: It is easier to blame a crime on someone, then no one has to take real responsibility.
2006-02-26 17:58:25.0
suncoast: So you think those guys were patsy's?
2006-02-26 17:58:28.0
Pauline: The part about the reconstruction being stopped was amazing.
2006-02-26 17:58:40.0
BGE: On 29 January 1996, it was completely destroyed by fire. Arson was immediately suspected. In March 2001, a court in Venice found two electricians guilty of setting the fire. Enrico Carella and his cousin, Massimiliano Marchetti, appeared to have set the building ablaze because their company was facing heavy fines over delays in repair work. Carella, the company's owner, was sent to prison for seven years, while Marchetti received a six-year sentence.
2006-02-26 17:58:59.0
Sandra Pierce: Yeah, how were they going to buy out the restaurant next door to recreate the original Fenice?
2006-02-26 17:59:17.0
Pauline: I think that is what he was saying in the book - they were charged and went to prison but I think he still thought it was an accident.
2006-02-26 17:59:44.0
suncoast: Well they certainly weren't very careful with that historical treasure.
2006-02-26 17:59:46.0
BGE: that's what amazed me the most..the damned politics that wrapped themselves around the whole project and almost sunk it totally
2006-02-26 18:00:04.0
suncoast: And literally
2006-02-26 18:00:11.0
BGE: I know!
2006-02-26 18:00:28.0
BGE: That's just weird...people would rather bitch and squabble than get the job done
2006-02-26 18:00:30.0
Kim: brb - need to get sammi to bed
2006-02-26 18:00:40.0
Sandra Pierce: Then how do you explain why the cousins were laughing outside Fenice before the fire began and how they were out smoking pot and having pizza when they were supposed to be by the girlfriends on the Lido? And how the one phoned dad and told about the fire 20 min before it was on the TV?
2006-02-26 18:00:43.0
suncoast: I guess they don't have all the rules and regs we do here in the States
2006-02-26 18:00:57.0
Colleen: But you know that's not just Venice/Italy - in the Bay Area a new Bay Bridge section has taken since 1989 to be approved, started - and is yet to be finished!!!
2006-02-26 18:01:02.0
BGE: Sandra, you'd make a good prosecutor!
2006-02-26 18:01:03.0
Pauline: There was one quote I liked on page 328 - about people wanting to "save" Venice and why don't they want to save other places.
2006-02-26 18:01:30.0
suncoast: I think they did it, I just think it was a mafia thing.
2006-02-26 18:01:30.0
BGE: Isn't it interesting that the Save Venice foundation is based in the U.S. and not in Venice itself?
2006-02-26 18:01:35.0
Sandra Pierce: Brenda: Glad to see that those years of Law School paid off, girl! Grazie!
2006-02-26 18:02:09.0
suncoast: THose people were power/prestige mad.
2006-02-26 18:02:33.0
BGE: why would the venetians not want to save their own stunning palazzos and historic treasures? If I EVER need an attorney, Sandra...you'll be it! Complimente!
2006-02-26 18:02:39.0
suncoast: Brenda, is there anything you haven't done?????
2006-02-26 18:03:00.0
Sandra Pierce: How about the whole deal between Larry Lovett and Bob Guthrie? And in the end who got the better seats at the Fenice opening..Lovett.
2006-02-26 18:03:26.0
Sandra Pierce: Anytime, Brenda, Anytime!
2006-02-26 18:03:30.0
suncoast: It just goes to show, it pays to smooze.
2006-02-26 18:04:38.0
Pauline: Do you think Americans are looked down on in Venice (and Italy)? Do you think that Venetians are insulted that we go there and want to save their city?
2006-02-26 18:05:00.0
Sandra Pierce: You're right, Ginger. Lovett had the whole Hollywood thing going with Save Venice and just kind of continued it with Venetian Heritage. I think he might have had some interest in preserving or restoring Venice's treasures, but he like the notoriety of being the head guy for SV more.
2006-02-26 18:05:05.0
suncoast: It didn't seem so from the book. They embraced the first committee
2006-02-26 18:06:15.0
Sandra Pierce: I got the feeling that they didn't mind their treasures being preserved, but when it started to be just a freebie, name thing, the Venetians got a bit insulted.
2006-02-26 18:06:21.0
Colleen: P, I don't think Americans are looked down on. As per the book quote, maybe they wonder "why Venice?" and not Paris, etc.
2006-02-26 18:06:32.0
suncoast: I didn't realize that Venice had fallen on such hard times.
2006-02-26 18:06:45.0
Pauline: Venice has not fallen on hard times!
2006-02-26 18:06:55.0
suncoast: It's so famous you forget about Napoleon
2006-02-26 18:07:41.0
suncoast: That's it's fallen from a powerful city-state as in the 17th-18th century.
2006-02-26 18:07:49.0
Sandra Pierce: Venice is such a unique place; maybe that's why the Americans felt it needs "saving.":
2006-02-26 18:07:50.0
Colleen: We tried to get tix for an opera at La Fenice next month, but can't find any available. Performances might have been cancelled - we can't find out for sure.) I HOPE to at least take a tour.
2006-02-26 18:08:22.0
Pauline: Yes, but many places have fallen from their former historic glory.
2006-02-26 18:08:36.0
BGE: oops...gotta get this computer looked at...shuts down every so often for no reason...
2006-02-26 18:08:42.0
Kim: Or maybe it's a high profile place which is why people feel the need to save it
2006-02-26 18:08:42.0
BGE: back, now
2006-02-26 18:08:45.0
Pauline: Check the fan.
2006-02-26 18:08:48.0
BGE: ?
2006-02-26 18:09:02.0
Pauline: Two recent posts on the board - the fan was not working, computer shut down.
2006-02-26 18:09:09.0
Kim: the exhaust fan - I was having that problem last month
2006-02-26 18:09:12.0
BGE: ok, will look for them
2006-02-26 18:09:12.0
suncoast: But I got the distinct feeling from this book and The Venetian Affair that the Ventians themselves have never really gotten over it.
2006-02-26 18:09:21.0
Pauline: I feel like we have a whole lot of things we should be saving in the US first.
2006-02-26 18:09:25.0
Kim: I got one of those air cans and cleaned it out and it works fine now
2006-02-26 18:09:41.0
Pauline: Neither has England.
2006-02-26 18:09:47.0
BGE: Thanks, Kim...
2006-02-26 18:09:53.0
BGE: Wouldn't it be like losing a family member to lose that glorious building?
2006-02-26 18:10:13.0
Kim: I agree Pauline; here where farm after farm is falling to development I wish some rich Americans would come here and save our Garden State farmland but they're too busy building condos and townhouses on it
2006-02-26 18:10:16.0
suncoast: What that they're no longer Masters of the Universe and the sun does set on their empire?
2006-02-26 18:10:17.0
Lisa W: Pauline, I absolutely agree with you
2006-02-26 18:10:28.0
BGE: especially for the people who look at it everyday out of their windows or from their terraces
2006-02-26 18:10:44.0
BGE: Pauline, that
2006-02-26 18:10:47.0
Sandra Pierce: True, Pauline. I've read about a group of Americans who want to restore gardens and palaces in France and it's costing a gazillion dollars. Made me think why...
2006-02-26 18:11:04.0
suncoast: Try living in Florida where they're tearing up the land faster than you can say endangered species
2006-02-26 18:11:09.0
BGE: 's why I thought it strange that the Save Venice committee was with U.S. $$$
2006-02-26 18:11:13.0
Pauline: I find it odd that we want to change other countries - when they have the means to decide what they want to do or save.
2006-02-26 18:11:37.0
Lisa W: My sister who is a fund raiser says the US is very unique in that the average person will give money to charity...
2006-02-26 18:11:41.0
Sandra Pierce: I think it goes back to the prestige thinking. Doesn't it sound more glamourous to say that you are saving Venice than saving a farm town in Iowa?
2006-02-26 18:11:54.0
Kim: Yep, exactly
2006-02-26 18:11:55.0
Pauline: Good point Sandra.
2006-02-26 18:12:04.0
suncoast: It must be the history and romance of the place. Let's face it scub pines and grass is not that attractive.
2006-02-26 18:12:15.0
Kim: I like grass
2006-02-26 18:12:17.0
BGE: maybe, that is it...better for the prestige to save a teatro in Venice than a theatre in Des Moines
2006-02-26 18:12:19.0
Kim:
2006-02-26 18:12:26.0
Pauline: Personally I like to save the outdoors more than the indoors.
2006-02-26 18:12:36.0
suncoast: amen
2006-02-26 18:12:54.0
BGE: still, it was a magnificent place before the fire...
2006-02-26 18:13:07.0
BGE: and it is also magnificent now, but not old...
2006-02-26 18:13:12.0
Kim: absolutley Brenda
2006-02-26 18:13:18.0
BGE: and there's a difference for me
2006-02-26 18:13:24.0
BGE: old is better...
2006-02-26 18:13:36.0
Kim: I just question the motives of people here who worked in Save Venice, that's all
2006-02-26 18:13:59.0
Pauline: Maybe they were trying to buy their way into the Venice society - he talkeda bout that in the book
2006-02-26 18:13:59.0
BGE: Lisa...how're you doing?
2006-02-26 18:13:59.0
suncoast: I questioned everybodies motive in this book?
2006-02-26 18:14:16.0
BGE: yep!
2006-02-26 18:14:32.0
Kim: The ones who really pissed me off were that couple at the Gugenheim
2006-02-26 18:14:36.0
Lisa W: I am definately going to read the book now
2006-02-26 18:14:39.0
Sandra Pierce: I wish that this book had been out before I went to Venice. Rex and I were there in June 1999 and had lunch at some little outdoor cafe in the shadows of La Fenice and besides knowing it was the opera house, I knew nothing. Had no idea about the fire, etc. Brenda, you will have fun just checking this out when you are there.
2006-02-26 18:14:48.0
suncoast: Did you buy the story about the splitting up of the Seguso family business?
2006-02-26 18:14:54.0
BGE: Lisa...glad you are still here! I loved the guy with the space station in his palazzo!!! Too funny!
2006-02-26 18:14:56.0
Sandra Pierce: Yeah, those Rylands were a definite piece of work.
2006-02-26 18:15:17.0
Pauline: The people he wrote about were all fascinating.
2006-02-26 18:15:18.0
BGE: I am definitely going to see the Fenice and spend time asking questions about it...
2006-02-26 18:15:29.0
Colleen: Jane Ryland showed up (not well) in Paula Weideger's memoir about Venice, too.
2006-02-26 18:15:45.0
BGE: I found a rental that overlooked the Fenice, but it was kinda scuzzy, so I passed.
2006-02-26 18:15:50.0
Sandra Pierce: What book is that , Colleen?
2006-02-26 18:16:18.0
Lisa W: Brenda, Colleen and I probably stayed there once. How long ago was that, Colleen?
2006-02-26 18:16:18.0
Colleen: She (Rylands) has a couple books of short stories out. I tried to read the first one, but it didn't grab me. S - Weideger's book is "Venetian Dreaming" - about living in Venice for a year.
2006-02-26 18:16:42.0
Colleen: And TRYING to learn the language, etc. Very personal, very gossipy.
2006-02-26 18:16:54.0
BGE: very good!
2006-02-26 18:17:03.0
BGE:
2006-02-26 18:17:06.0
Colleen: Lisa - 1999!
2006-02-26 18:17:08.0
Pauline: So, in the end did everyone like this book?
2006-02-26 18:17:13.0
BGE: absolutely!
2006-02-26 18:17:20.0
Kim: Yes
2006-02-26 18:17:22.0
BGE: Lots...looking forward to the movie
2006-02-26 18:17:23.0
Sandra Pierce: yes, very much
2006-02-26 18:17:30.0
suncoast: I liked it alot until I felt it turned into mostly gossip
2006-02-26 18:17:38.0
Sandra Pierce: is there a movie being made?
2006-02-26 18:17:42.0
Pauline: Yes, I liked it too.
2006-02-26 18:17:45.0
Colleen: Yes. It tells a good story.
2006-02-26 18:17:45.0
BGE: wonder how this guy can write one book every 10 years and still write a good 'un...
2006-02-26 18:17:59.0
BGE: Sandra, I'm just speculating....about the movie
2006-02-26 18:18:21.0
BGE: but wouldn't the casting be a hoot?????
2006-02-26 18:18:41.0
Sandra Pierce: didn't we do this last month - casting the movie?
2006-02-26 18:18:52.0
Sandra Pierce: Hey, Marian!
2006-02-26 18:18:54.0
BGE: Hi, Marian...
2006-02-26 18:18:58.0
suncoast: I think you could write this kind of story in almost any town. I just got Hot Springs on book on tape.
2006-02-26 18:19:07.0
BGE: I agree, Ginger...
2006-02-26 18:19:08.0
suncoast: Hi Marian
2006-02-26 18:19:11.0
Marian: Hi all, just popped in to say "HI"
2006-02-26 18:19:15.0
BGE: Different names and faces.,....same story
2006-02-26 18:19:17.0
Colleen: Hi Marian! We're working on the cast for the movie version of "City..."
2006-02-26 18:19:20.0
Colleen:
2006-02-26 18:19:22.0
Marian: Haven't read the book
2006-02-26 18:19:35.0
Marian: Cast Ralph Fiennes
2006-02-26 18:19:37.0
Sandra Pierce: I think that Jack Nicholson would be goot as the crazy artist de Luigi!
2006-02-26 18:19:43.0
suncoast: Now that was a town that was wide open
2006-02-26 18:19:50.0
Marian: If no appropriate character, don't do the movie
2006-02-26 18:19:58.0
BGE: so, the guy who played the guy with the flies trained to stay around him in Midnight in the Garden would make a good casting for the space station guy!