To Kill a Mockingbird.
Celebrating the 50th anniversery..On USA sat nite at 8pm eastern..minimum commercials. Have seen this movie 4-5 times over the years..If you haven't seen it catch it tonite...Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his performance as Atticus Finch the defense atty...One line of his from the trial is memorable,
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And so, a quiet, humble, respectable Negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against two white people.
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Mary Badham who played Scout, his daughter, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was 10 years old..
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938)
When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets.
Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit
they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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04-07-2012, 11:42 AM
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