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Post by tod2 on Sept 16, 2020 12:48:43 GMT
Thanks for that Mark! I have never heard that song . I think it was performed for the tourists - where? - I don't know that either. At first I thought it my be at The Palace of The Lost City, but not sure. As for the beautiful outfits, sometimes one or two Zulu members of staff wear them on a special occasion - state holiday -for instance.
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Post by questa on Sept 16, 2020 13:10:44 GMT
Is that the song/dance that featured in the movie "Zulu" when the Pastor took his daughter to see it and explained the significance of the wooden knives to her. It sounded similar, but I suppose there are many versions.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 16, 2020 16:25:20 GMT
Questa, there are various versions but I don't think it was one shown in the film.
Tod, strangly enough, I think it was filmed in Vietnam. They did a tour there.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 16, 2020 16:36:33 GMT
dance that featured in the movie "Zulu" I remember the film ZULU being firmed here many years ago. Every morning you had men in red jackets and pith helmuts walking down the Main Street to the film location in Alexandra Park. Mark - I think you are right. The Oriental doorway in the video gives it away. The Lost City (hotel) here is all decked out in an African theme. Side note: If you watch the film Zulu at any time, look at the eyes of the horse Peter O1Toole is riding. It had to be doped up by our friend who is a vet.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 16, 2020 17:05:58 GMT
I don’t think Peter O’Toole was in Zulu?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 16, 2020 17:11:53 GMT
Zulu 1964 - Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine Zulu Dawn 1979 - Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott Zulu 2013 - Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 16, 2020 18:05:51 GMT
Peter O'Toole was in Zulu Dawn.
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Post by questa on Sept 16, 2020 23:15:16 GMT
Two different battles. It was while retreating from the disaster of Zulu Dawn that the events of Zulu occurred. Having been so shamed by the defeat and having the newspapers in Britain full of the bad news, the Govt played up the heroics of the second to appease the masses. This is why 11 V.C.s were awarded in what was really a skirmish on the sidelines of a bigger war.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 17, 2020 7:40:22 GMT
I stand corrected, thanks. I made the mistake of the film name, although I wrote Zulu, I actually meant Zulu Dawn. Yes O'Toole was in it and took the part as Lord Chelmsford. He also had several dinner engagements with some of the film crew in my friend's restaurant.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 17, 2020 7:45:53 GMT
My son's first job was with Sothebys in London and they exhibited all the Rorkes Drift VC's. He took us to see them in a special room each with full details of their history before they were open to the public. In the film Henry Hook was depicted as some kind of hooligan whereas in real life he was exactly the opposite.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2020 20:17:42 GMT
I have a Monoprix cashier who loves me so much that she called in half of the management staff to correct a 0.40€ error on my discount coupons. They didn't want to come because it was their lunch break, but she forced them. I can tell just by looking at her that she can draw her Cambodian sabers to obtain justice if necessary.
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Post by questa on Sept 18, 2020 7:17:05 GMT
The family of Henry Hook were so concerned that the character was portrayed as so completely different to his true nature that they sued the Film makers. I don't know the outcome of this.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 18, 2020 7:28:09 GMT
My favorite movie ever. Must have seen it 20 times. I skip the part with the priest. Henry is a great character, albeit i know the only accurate fact is his name.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 18, 2020 14:15:08 GMT
I went to see Zulu at the cinema in the early 70s. In the days before home Video and DVD...when popular films would 'tour' cinemas every few years
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 18, 2020 14:38:16 GMT
I remember seeing Zulu in the mid sixties, but the only actor that I remembered was Michael Caine. I realise now that it was a remarkable time for cinema where I was living (small town Mississippi with a grand total of 3 cinemas in town*), because it was still open to various foreign movies. During the same period, I saw Blow Up, Alfie, Georgy Girl and Divorce Italian Style, and all of those movies really opened my eyes to the rest of the world. A couple of years later, it was all finished and the only movies were American. If you didn't live in a big city, you had absolutely no access to world cinema.
A couple of years later, we moved to California but we still had to drive 100km to Los Angeles to see anything challenging. The fact that we actually did so a few times indicates that my parents were more progressive that I thought at the time. (Actually my mother, because she indicated to my stepfather everything that needed to be done.)
* They were the Sand (formerly the American Legion Theatre), the Paramount and the Gulf, which had double and triple features, something that is unheard of in modern times.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 18, 2020 17:03:41 GMT
Oh my god! Blow Up. I have watched that movie several times but the first time was with my husband…Mr.Tod of over 57 years acquaintance. (I met him on his 19th birthday). I'll be truthful…..I didn't really understand what the heck was going on until later in the movie. I don't think we were paying too much attention as petting in the movie house was normal and even more explosive at the Drive-In Theatre.
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Post by questa on Sept 18, 2020 22:56:06 GMT
....Moving right along.....!
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Post by tod2 on Sept 19, 2020 8:52:30 GMT
Now now Questa, don't be coy..!
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 19, 2020 9:56:39 GMT
She was a girl and he was a boy...
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 19, 2020 14:55:51 GMT
And in this day and age, that doesn't really even make a difference anymore.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 25, 2020 21:16:44 GMT
My sister is coming to see us! (My remaining sister. And her beau.). I haven’t seen her since February.
It’s especially appreciated because they just flew home yesterday from a week in Boston, burying his only (and younger) brother who died unexpectedly last week. They have something sad in common, both having lost a beloved sibling before the other had a chance to meet them.
They also each helped the other get through a family crisis surrounding the death. In our case it was the suspicion of the New Orleans Police Department that our brother in law could have killed our sister (ridiculous, as he worshipped the ground she walked on), and in the beau’s case it was the total lack of capacity for the widow to deal with arrangements, finances, HR department and all those things.
Having handled 2 estates as executor, my sister sat in on every meeting in Boston, though they have only been together for 9 months (and he has an ex-wife who wasn’t even there).
I’m waiting eagerly for their arrival.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 26, 2020 0:55:03 GMT
Is that police department usually so (literally) clueless? That is ghastly.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 12:08:13 GMT
I feel so lucky with my ultra thick wall that totally blocks all noise. Probably the fact that I sleep like a log also might help.
I am at the end of the corridor and today my neighbour on the left wrote this collective message to everybody about the neighbours on the right, across the hall from her: (this is after running it through Google translate)
Good morning all,
I am writing to you in response to last night's noise from Mr xxxx's apartment. The uproar lasted until 5:30 am despite the fact that we went to see them several times to ask them at the beginning to lower the music and then to cut the music at 3:30 am. Our inquiries had no impact on the sound volume. I thought at first that they weren't aware of the noise they were making but honestly, they are aware of it and they have absolutely do not care about it. We have already gone to ask them to turn down their music several times over the past ten nights. Despite this, they continue. It's not acceptable. Mr. xxxx, could you please make sure that your tenants follow the rules of co-ownership and living together? If the incident were to repeat itself, I will call the police and I will double my call with a complaint to the police station. It really does not correspond to the relations that I wish to maintain with my neighbors but I do not see other solutions.
I am taking advice if you have any to resolve the situation.
The neighbour who wrote this is half my age. The three bad girls across the hall must be about 20. I am amused.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 26, 2020 13:21:09 GMT
There is nowhere in hell I would allow them to carry on abusing me. There are several reciprocal nasty things to do, but this lot does not want a 'tit-for-tat' confrontation . They need a sledgehammer, - stop your shit response.! Call the cops over and over and over. Get hold of the Landlord and force him to take action. People like this don't deserve a roof over their heads. We call them Scumbags.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 13:36:21 GMT
It's funny how different all of us are. I actually would like to be able to hear these parties, because I have always liked to hear people enjoying themselves, even if they wake me up. I have also been on countless airplanes next to screaming infants, and even though it bothered me, it never outraged me, because 1) it wasn't their fault and 2) I have an amazing capacity for filtering out unpleasant noise. It's actually the same for jackhammers, sirens or honking traffic. (I must be an amazing person.)
On one of my trips to Bangkok in a fan room (as opposed to an air conditioned room that I didn't want), my hotel was next to two of the all night restaurant-bars and so until 5 am every night, it was the year that the following song played least 20 times. I left the window open on purpose.
I loved it, and probably the peace and quiet for the following two hours made it all the more appealing for me to go to one or the other at 7 am for banana pancakes, muesli with yogurt and tea for breakfast.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 26, 2020 14:09:55 GMT
I am extremely tolerant of restaurant noise, or anywhere it is a place that is trading ligit. In the old city of St.Malo our hotel room was directly above the restaurant below. I did not mind the "hub-bub" and clinking of glass until over midnight, BUT one huge difference. It was an exciting first time experience. It most likely would never happen again, so as a tourist I drank in all the atmospherics I could.
Living in a place I pay rent for, and respect my neighbours privacy, there is absolutely no room (especially in this Covid time) to let loose and abuse my neighbours space by my irresponsible behaviour. I personally think if I had a teeny baby or child - would you allow Child abuse. Of course not. So my thinking is, how do they know if a member of your family is poorly, or been working hard and needs peace and quiet. They don't care. If they had come to the door and said they intend having a party and would it disturb you, is at least a polite advance warning where you could let them know if it's going to be a problem.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 16:29:07 GMT
Actually, it is in the OTHER apartment on my floor that there is a brand new baby, and they could probably hear the noise, too. In fact, the downstairs neighbours usually hear the noise, too. I am just super lucky with my special walls which actually mean that there were two buildings originally, and I am in the other building.
I like to see people enjoying themselves, but I agree with you that I would absolutely never behave that way myself (even when I was young).
Once I had to spend 3 weeks on a (long) seminar at one of the most luxurious hotels in Cairo. I had one of the beautiful rooms overlooking the garden and the swimming pool. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT there was a huge Egyptian wedding that continued until all hours with loud music and dancing. It didn't bother me at all (unlike some of my colleagues, the ones from Europe and the United States). I found it exotic and different.
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Post by questa on Sept 27, 2020 5:14:59 GMT
But that is what drives you,Kerouac. you travel, record and photograph everything looking always for the New. Like me, and I think Mark, you'd go down a un-marked road just to see what it leads to. I do need my sleep though.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 27, 2020 14:32:23 GMT
I thought people in Kerouac's building owned their flats? I'd have a hard time calling people about a baby, since it isn't the baby's fault, and I'm sure the parents are doing all they can to calm said baby down.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 27, 2020 15:25:49 GMT
There is only one rental apartment in the building (out of a total of 7). It is rented to students every year, probably on the municipal scheme that guarantees payment of rent no matter what happens as long as it is rented below market rates. The local real estate agency manages the place and chooses the tenants, so I don't know to what extent the owner "Mr. xxxx" can be held responsible.
Nevertheless, I am not a fan of "Mr. xxxx" because when he bought the last two sleazy apartments (with no WC) on my floor to merge them into one acceptable lodging, he found it inconvenient during the renovation works that part of my plumbing (kitchen and WC) ran along the outer wall, plumbing which was shared with one of the two old flats since its kitchenette was along the same wall. But he was moving the kitchen, bathroom and WC to the other side of the flat and didn't want "my" pipes messing up his plan. "You'll have to pay to reroute your pipes," he bluffed. I just laughed in his face and that was the last time I saw him, about 7 years ago. He never attends the annual owners' meeting and just sends in his power of attorney to be represented by anyone. (His share of votes would never change the outcome one way or another.)
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