It was and is my favorite movie…Don’t know how long it will continue to be…
The Academy Award Winning move, of 1965, is a 165 minute, the most popular movie musical of all time. It’s a heartwarming inspirational and true story based on the lives of the Trapp family singers. JULIE ANDREWS is Maria, a spirited, young Austrian Women studying to take her religious vows. Suspecting that Maria’s true calling may lie outside the convent, the mother superior arranges for her to leave the convent and become governess to the children of the autocratic widower, Baron Von Trapp. Bringing warmth and music to the strict household of the reserved former navel captain, Maria soon wins over the children and finally the Baron as well, in a gloriously rendered romance.
The others in the movie where, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath.
The songs are fabulous, kids marvelous. Every time music echoes our ears. It seems the family escaped to US where they started their own famous musical troop. Indeed inspiring…
The Sound of Music is based on Maria Von Trapp's autobiography The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Originally, the musical was to contain only actual music that had been sung by the Trapps in their concerts, plus one original song by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The talented songwriting duo balked at this, however, and eventually they were allowed to contribute the entire score. Set in 1938, The Sound of Music tells the story of Maria Rainer, a free-spirited nun who is hired by Captain George Von Trapp to care for his seven children. Although Captain Trapp is engaged to a wealthy socialite, he and Maria eventually fall in love and marry--but their happiness is soon shattered when the Nazis invade Austria.
According to some The Sound of Music is representative of conservative American cold war ideology of the 1960s more than of Austria in any particular period.
Whatever the movie is indeed fabulous….
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Pause to think ......
Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.
A Message by George Carlin :
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers,wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.We spend more, but give less, we buy more,but enjoy less.We have bigger houses and smaller families,more conveniences, but less time.We have more degrees but less sense,more knowledge,but less judgement, more experts, yet even more problems,more medicine,but less health.
We want everything for us,but nothing for others.
We drink too much,smoke too much,spend too recklessly,laugh too little,drive too fast,get too angry,stay up too late,get up too tired,read too little,watch TV too much,but too seldom we see others miseries.
We have multiplied our possessions ,but reduced our values.We talk too much,listen too seldom, hate too often,love too seldom.
We've learned how to make a living,but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years.We've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.We conquered outer space but not inner soul.We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the neighbourhood,but polluted the atmosphere.We've conquered the atom,but not our prejudice.We write more,but learn less. We plan more,but accomplish less.We've learned to rush,but not to wait.We build more computers to hold more information,to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion,big men and small character,steep profits and shallow relationships.These are the days of two incomes but more divorce,fancier houses,but broken homes.These are days of quick trips,disposable diapers,throwaway morality,one night stands,overweight bodies,and pills that do everything from cheer,to quiet,to kill.we spend a fortune to invent devices to kill the human race with bombs.It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.We have inherited all the materials for our life,but we have lost the real life
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because you are not going to be around them forever.
Remember,say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe,because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember,to give a warm hug to the one next to you,because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember,not to hate but to say,"I love you" to your partner,or an associate,a nighbour,and your loved ones,most important of all,you really mean it.A kiss and an embrace will mend the hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
A Message by George Carlin :
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers,wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints.We spend more, but give less, we buy more,but enjoy less.We have bigger houses and smaller families,more conveniences, but less time.We have more degrees but less sense,more knowledge,but less judgement, more experts, yet even more problems,more medicine,but less health.
We want everything for us,but nothing for others.
We drink too much,smoke too much,spend too recklessly,laugh too little,drive too fast,get too angry,stay up too late,get up too tired,read too little,watch TV too much,but too seldom we see others miseries.
We have multiplied our possessions ,but reduced our values.We talk too much,listen too seldom, hate too often,love too seldom.
We've learned how to make a living,but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years.We've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.We conquered outer space but not inner soul.We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the neighbourhood,but polluted the atmosphere.We've conquered the atom,but not our prejudice.We write more,but learn less. We plan more,but accomplish less.We've learned to rush,but not to wait.We build more computers to hold more information,to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion,big men and small character,steep profits and shallow relationships.These are the days of two incomes but more divorce,fancier houses,but broken homes.These are days of quick trips,disposable diapers,throwaway morality,one night stands,overweight bodies,and pills that do everything from cheer,to quiet,to kill.we spend a fortune to invent devices to kill the human race with bombs.It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.We have inherited all the materials for our life,but we have lost the real life
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because you are not going to be around them forever.
Remember,say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe,because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember,to give a warm hug to the one next to you,because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember,not to hate but to say,"I love you" to your partner,or an associate,a nighbour,and your loved ones,most important of all,you really mean it.A kiss and an embrace will mend the hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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