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To: golux
You aren't a for REAL New Yorker; you were a carpetbagging transplant!

And like his writing or hate it, loathing Capote or not, hate the movie ( which you don't understand at all ), or claim that its "morals" ( ROTFLMSO ) are the antithesis of yours is beyond the point, and sadly, you just made a bigger fool of yourself with this post.

I come from an old NYC ( Manhattan ) family. A few of my ancestors/members of my extended family, long ago, married and moved away, came back for visits, still had family who lived in NYC, but that NEVER made them "NEW YORKERS", when they were living outside of the city. No, wait a minute, they were actually MORE of a NEW YORKER than you'll EVER be!LOL

You ignored my questing of you KNOWING what Manhattan and the people whom Capote knew and then fictionalized,were like in the 1950's! Obviously, you know less than NOTHING whatsoever about the people who were used as a basis of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, nor those who have peopled his other works.

Nor do you know, PERSONALLY, what NYC, the the 1950s were like. And before you ask...yes, I know EXACTLY what Manhattan was like in that decade and many others as well.

Soooooooooooooooo...do you ONLY watch movies and/or read books which portray people who are just like you, in every way?

Not only is there immorality, corruption, and oh...the HORROR OF IT ALL, crimes, not to mention very "dirty words" in Shakespeare ( nit that I'm comparing Capote to the heights of Shakespeare...I'm not! )but his plays are people with characters who are NOTHING at all like you! DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU SHUN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS AND DENIGRATE THEM TOO?

Breakfast At Tiffany's is a cute movie; nobody is claiming that it's some kind of "MASTERPIECE OF ART"! OTOH...it's far superior to ANYTHING that has been made in at least the past 30 years, in Holyweird.

Here's your chance...name the 3 BEST "light entertainment" American movies, you've seen and enjoyed, that was made in the past 20 years. Go ahead...I'd like to know what you find acceptable.

98 posted on 07/12/2018 8:49:02 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Here's your chance...name the 3 BEST "light entertainment" American movies...


Thank you for giving me a chance to please you. I suppose the three greatest American movies that would also be called "light entertainment" would be:

New Yorker Leni Riefenstahl's knee-slapping Triumph des Willen,

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Part III, by Shmuley Rosenthal and perhaps

No Pardons, or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and love Creepy Freepers, by Sergei M Eisenstein. A laugh riot!
104 posted on 07/13/2018 8:45:50 PM PDT by golux
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