Recent release. Killers of the flower moon
I want to see this. Lol, and now you have given me another reason to do so!Recent release. Killers of the flower moon
I’ve read the book too (it’s excellent too). The movie is a little on the long side but well worth it. Plus DeNero gets a classic barbershop straight shave with a true straightI want to see this. Lol, and now you have given me another reason to do so!
Very touching.Well, thanks for that @FarmerTan.
My late Mother was a great resource of memory of those times. A different world. I wanted her to record all her memories at the Imperial War Museum on tape but she never wanted to. But I wrote down and remember a mass of info she told me over the years.
She said things got a lot worse after the massive drawdown of American forces here in 1945-6. The Americans had become friends to our family (we lived near a big U.S.A.A.F base called Bovingdon, just a jeep ride from Hendon where my family lived) and to the whole neighbourhood. It sounded like a complex, family relationship, from 42-45. The older men and officers would go and see my granddad and listen to the BBC Midnight news and talk serious stuff. Other neighbours would come in, and younger guys would be talking with my mum and her brother. It was a hang out place.
The American guys (and female W.A.A.F's) were incredibly generous with food and luxuries, cigarettes, etc. Mum remembered getting boxes of chocolates (Whitman's selection she called them) and the officers would give my Grandad whisky or whatever. The B-17's and 24's would all be flown from the States by way of Greenland to replace losses, and they were mostly loaded with luxuries. Mum only smoked Luckies and Chesterfields. Didn't like Camel. She didn't really like English cigarette for years after.
After the U.S personnel withdrew it became hard on everyone. No soap, MUM deodorant, stuff from the P.X. Everyone felt it.
I was brought up to always remember American generosity and kindness, and how much we owed you.
I just watched that movie, and the grooming gear immediately caught my eye.Ferris Bueller's Day Off...when Ferris uses the bathroom at the upscale restaurant there is a bottle of Lilac Vegetal on the counter.