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LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· 21d

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Although TC was set in England in 1916, during WWI, all the clothes seemed new & fresh. Godspell is as close to religion as I get; EFNY just not that good, stiff dialogue, meh action. MBC first time watch for me. Wonderful. RIP Sam. #moviesareswell

Movie posters: The Choral, Ralph Fiennes wearing a light brown coat and dark brown hat; Godspell, a Christ-like figure on a cross beneath the multicolored title of the movie, with cast members in small photos underneath; Escape From New York, three figures running away, behind them the huge severed head of the Statue of Liberty; My Brilliant Career, stars Judy Davis and Sam Neill embracing and staring into each other’s eyes.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· 26d

Spied on while out for my walk this morning. #deer #nature #summer #walking #photography

A deer stares at me as I walk by. It’s standing in long grass with woods behind it.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· 28d

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched I didn’t post last week, so there’s additional films I could’ve included but won’t. These 4 rounded out the last two weeks. Scarlet would’ve been great but for some ungodly reason they stuck an awful pop song, set in modern times, into the medieval action. 🙄

Annihilation, women with machine guns enter a forest; Flavors Of Youth, drawing of a young man in a crosswalk with his back to us, heading for a group of buildings; Scarlet, young woman in a white gown holding a sword against a red fiery background; Stand By For Action, stars Brian Donlevy, Charles Laughton and Robert Taylor.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· 29d

A cowardly, self loathing woman with very low self esteem and an overactive imagination who’s afraid of her servants and is jealous of a dead woman narrates her story of Manderley, the mansion her cold new husband has brought her to live. Well read by Anna Massey. Not well written. #booksky #books

Cover of audiobook ’Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier. A color overhead photo of a woman with reddish hair wearing a black dress and wrapping her arms around herself. Head down, so you can’t see her face.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 15

Have finished this book, from 1930. Set in 1913, revolves around the killing of an English courier & the theft of an important message. It’s ok, nothing special. Murder takes place in Lake Placid. There’s some racism & misogyny as you would expect from that era. #booksky #reading #books #trains

Cover of the book ‘The Crime In Car 13’ by Stephen Chalmers. It has a drawing in gold and yellow of a train, as seen from above, racing down a track, smoke billowing from its smokestack.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 11

#Caturday action video of Kanchi, minding her own business, until I tenderly try to give her a pet. Note the quick look of annoyance she gives me after I free my hand. #cats #blueskycats

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 11

This ship went by as I was walking this morning. It’s from Bulgaria, as you may have guessed from its name. It was heading south toward the Great Lakes. #ships #StLawrenceRiver #photography #bluesky

Black and red ship called the Navibulgar sails on blue river below and blue sky above.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 11

Happy Birthday to the late and surely great Thomas Mitchell! What a career! Not an actor alive who wouldn’t kill to have a career like his. #tcm #TCMparty #moviesareswell #ThomasMitchell

Black and white photo of Thomas Mitchell looking concerned.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 4

Have a meh 4th of July. Hoping that soon our country won’t be in distress anymore.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 3

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Errol in top form in an unsentimental WWII action film set in Norway tops my viewing this week. Deepwater Horizon was very good, but the other two should be avoided. TFLH only got a 3-star rating cuz of Myrna and Melvyn! Have a great weekend folks! Stay cool.

Movie posters: Third Finger, Left Hand, a hand with a wedding ring on it, with Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas in background; It Happened Tomorrow with Dick Powell and Linda Darnell; Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the ocean belches fire and black smoke; Edge Of Darkness, closeup of Errol Flynn.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jul 1

Have just finished book one in this trilogy. I will not be reading books 2 & 3. This was a slog to get through. To explain the plot would require a long thread. And bloody well bored you’d be if you read it. Too much backstory to hack through. Anyway, on to a better book, I hope. #reading #books

Cover of the book The Poppy War by R.F.Kuang. A. Golden phoenix flies over a young woman brandishing a sword in one hand and with flames dancing on her other hand while an army of soldiers appear in the background.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 30

Although I read this book twice many years ago I couldn’t resist buying an audiobook version. It’s arguably the book that began the world’s fascination with the Titanic. A fascinating and fabulous book. The 1958 movie version is the best of all Titanic films. #books #audiobooks #history #Titanic

Audiobook of A Night To Remember by Walter Lord. It shows the Titanic, bow down, beginning to sink. Lifeboats surrounded by small blocks of ice are in the foreground.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 29

Met a friend while walking yesterday. I named it, get ready for this, Chip! Aren’t I clever? I’ll show myself out. #chipmunk

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 26

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched From bad to meh to okay to pretty good. FOY is so stupid my IQ dropped several points while I watched it. RBC exists only to blow sunshine up your ass. Not even remotely subtle. Hope no one bought that tripe. Sally is good=1 & half stars. Locale=1 star

Movie posters: The Andromeda Strain, two men in hazard gear on a strip of film; Fountain of Youth, five people stand in front of a pyramid; Remarkably Bright Creatures Sally Field and some guy sitting next to each other looking at an octopus; The Perfect Storm, a fishing boat tries to climb a giant wave.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 25

A nice place to spend a morning, even if you can only imagine it. From my archive, 2007. #ThrowbackThursday #photography #sunshine #peaceful #quiet #ColonialWilliamsburg

A park bench sits under a circular hole in a brick wall. You can see trees through the hole. Branches hang along the top of the wall. Spotty sunshine and shadows light the scene.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 21

Was being watched as I was out for my walk this morning. #deer #photography #nature #wildlife

A small deer stairs at me as I take its picture. There’s a tree to its right and more trees in the background.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 20

#Caturday Or should I say #Braturday I was putting away groceries this morning and Kanchi, who was guarding them, I guess, reached over and bit my hand. Disrespectful punk!

My cat curled up on a dark red sheet. She’s got black stripes and dark brown fur. Ears at attention. Big green eyes and black pupils.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 19

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched I’ve seen them all before and the ratings speak for themselves. Obviously, Ex_Machina is the most frightening film out there. Well, we’ve been warned. #moviesareswell

Posters: Cast of Glass Onion against a blue sky backdrop; Kiki’s Delivery Service, Kiki and her cat JiJi fly over a city on her broom; Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford with a determined look on his face and holding a whip over his shoulder; Ex_Machina, Alicia Vikander in robot form.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 19

Good morning, Stella.

Actress Audrey Hepburn sips coffee in a diner. A stop smoking sign hangs on the wall to her right.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 16

Finished listening to this the other day. A fascinating look at the buildup to the dropping of the bomb, as well as the Pacific war. The book has mini biographies on the 4 men seen below. Well worth your time to read or listen to. Debate still rages on whether it was necessary. #WWII #history #read

Cover of the book The Hiroshima Men. On the cover General Groves; Senkichi Awaya, mayor of Hiroshima on the day the bomb fell, Col. Paul Tibbets, John Hersey.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 14

From my archive, May 10, 2009. Back when the White House was occupied by decent people. #photography #WhiteHouse #sunshine #bluesky

Photo of the White House under sunny sky, with water fountain and sculpted bushes and trees to the left and right of the frame.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 14

Walking to my car and scared a little bunny, which ran into my neighbor’s yard. Here’s a not very good picture of it. #bunny

A brown and grey bunny sits in the grass with its back to the camera. Left eye visible, its ears up.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 13

#NowWatching 45 years old today! The movie, not me.

Cover of dvd Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: a smiling Harrison Ford brandishing a whip.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 12

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Ended last week with Bataan, started this week with Back To Bataan (not seen here). Sunrise was a first time watch for me. City women! They’re evil I tells ya! Burt being Burt was the best of the week. #moviesareswell #keepwatchingthescreens

Godzilla, the monster with smoke surrounding it; The Blue Dahlia, Alan Ladd front and center; Sunrise, jazz band in upper right, young couple center and jezebel lower left; The Train, Burt Lancaster with machine gun with fiery explosions in background.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 12

Pasadena Police ready for action!

Donald O’Connor makes a face while holding two guns across his chest.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 9

Excellent book about a battle on Lake Champlain. Benedict Arnold led the fight in stopping the British, using slapdash naval vessels and only a handful of experienced seamen. The rest were all soldiers pulled from wherever they could be found. Brilliant. #books #read #history #AmericanRevolution

Cover of Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved The Cause of Liberty, by Jack Kelly. Revolutionary warships battle under red, black and white storm clouds.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 5

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Yes, there are no stars under ‘Outcome’, which is absolutely the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time. Jonah Hill’s portrayal of a character he created is so over the top annoying I wanted to kick my tv whenever he appeared. An embarrassment for all involved.

Posters for:
Bataan, drawing of four soldiers running at you. Bataan written in big red letters.
Architecton, a man leans face forward against a huge stone structure.
Outcome, photo of Keanu Reeves
Hero, Jet Li and Zhang Zi Yi strike action pose. Li has a sword.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 4

#ThrowbackThursday 09/29/12 A dead tree. #photography #nature #trees #blackandwhite

Black and white photo of a dead tree that’s fallen into a pond. Branches extend from the trunk which is mostly submerged. In the background is a row of trees lining the shore.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· Jun 4

Same photo I use here. ‘Cuz I’m old and crusty, just like Arthur.

Photo of Arthur Hunnicutt wearing western clothing and cowboy hat. He has a full beard, salt and pepper in color.

LeeWasHere 🇺🇸@leewashere· May 30

Kanchi couldn’t be bothered to get up for #Caturday But, she’s thinking about it. I’ll have more information as it becomes available.