Posted on 08/14/2014 12:19:23 PM PDT by Mrs. P
Anyone compiling a list of RW threads?
Abortion: A Tragedy That Has Visited Too Many!
From a suspected suicide, huh?
PFL
His wife said he was developing Parkinson’s Disease on top of everything else.
I could never watch the film again because I couldn't take seeing that sequence.
From a comment on IMDB..
Michael Caine plays Alfie, a hipster swinger in 1960s London whose attitudes and actions we abhor even as we warm to the twinkle in his eye. Caine plays the role just right. The movie would go nowhere if he wasn't able to make us understand what about Alfie attracts women despite his treatment of them. The film has noble ambitions, and explores some pretty dark (and for the time, edgy) terrain, when Alfie's antics catch up with him and he leaves one of his conquests (played quietly by Vivien Merchant) in the hands of a sleazy abortionist. The look on Caine's face when he returns to his apartment and sees the aborted fetus, visual confirmation of his callous disregard, was enough on its own to earn him the Oscar nomination he received for this film.
Art imitates life all too well in this film.
I watched that movie a couple of years ago, and I agree it is hard to watch that scene. Hard to imagine that same movie being made now, isn’t it?
The post abortive trauma deniers refuse to consider abortion as a source of any of life’s problems and it needs to be talked about.
There are pregnancy counseling centers in every community who offer help to anyone who has an abortion in their past. If you’re having problems, go talk to someone, even if you think you are over it and that isn’t part of your current problems. Just go talk to someone at one of these places that offers help.
The evil one would convince us that our bodies are our own, to do with them as we please. The contrary truth, albeit an uncomfortable one, is that we are creatures under the hand of a Creator. We most certainly are NOT our own to do with ourselves as we please.
I wonder how a man experiences a pregnancy with a loving partner after having conspired to terminate a pregnancy with a different loving partner some years ago. Those experiences must be hard to reconcile.
OK look. I’m as pro-life as anyone but this is ridiculous.
Some of the conclusions about Williams in the article are a matter of opinion, but post-abortion trauma is well documented and quite frequent.
His death has completely over shadowed that of a REAL American icon- an American treasure the likes we’ll never see again- Laurent Becall. Her body of work in film and stage is awe inspiring and by far over shadows Robin Williams.
I’ve always been suspicious about the mental health of anyone who can’t seem to turn off their comedy persona. You never seem to see the real “them” because it is constantly cloaked behind a fake identity - for some reason. Chris Farley and Phil Hartman were two others that this describes.
The extreme opposite of down-to-earth.
I noticed there was a thread running or at least started to run a little earlier, but for some unknown reason it was pulled. I wish when they pull threads they'd give a reason. I did a Google search and there were many other sources stating the same thing so I don't think it was pulled because it was a false rumor.
Who knows what causes suicide?
When I was a kid living in L.A., I met RW at least 3 times through a friend who studied comedy with him at Harvey Lembeck’s studio. She had trouble relating to him during their improvs because he never, ever took time to pay attention to her. She was just a prop he worked around - not good when someone else is in the scene with you. So she simply quit doing improvs with him. And she was wildly talented, too.
I remember people at the comedy clubs saying with awe: “He’s going to be a star!” This was before Mork & Mindy. I guess they were right but all I remember was how wildly egotistical he was. From what I’ve read, he changed for the better.
Hard to reconcile? Impossible to reconcile would be closer to reality with one exception… that being forgiveness from the ultimate Higher Power has been asked for and received. In fact, you can take the word ‘pregnancy’ out of that statement and insert the word ‘sex’ in instead…. and whether you are a man or a woman, the impact of sexual relationships on later relationships are ALWAYS deeply negative. Sin has a way of affecting one for all his/her life until it is forgiven.
Well, Bacall outlived the window for a big hullabaloo. The majority of people alive today haven’t seen more than maybe one of her films, so they are ignorant of her, and she doesn’t get the headlines.
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