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I didn't know that FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT was one of the Marx Brothers!
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"(...) entertainment businessmen should best remain in their swivel chairs and leave creative work to creative people."
Paul Andrew MacLean
(and often so true!)
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"You can take your money and shove it up your ass until it comes out your ears nickles."
-Hemingway.... when Selznick asked him to do the screenplay for one of his books (and change a whole bunch of stuff).
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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati, because it's ten years behind the times.
- Mark Twain
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Aug 7, 2005 - 11:47 PM
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By: |
ANZALDIMAN
(Member)
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"Early in the Civil war, far removed from any of the major fighting, a young fugitive slave named Alex Turner made his way north and eventually joined the 1rst New Jersey Cavalry.
In the spring of 1863, he guided his regiment back to his old plantation at Port Royal Virginia, and killed his former overseer.
Turner served with distinction throughout the war, fighting for a new version and a new vision of the Union and it's great ennobling promise, made four score and seven years before, that all men were created equal. Now, as the war drew to it's close, he moved to New England, finding work as a logger. Ultimately, he decided to settle in Vermont, because it was, he told his family, the only state admitted to the Union with slavery already proscribed.
Alex Turner lived out his life in the gentle green hills of Grafton, Vermont, running a farm and raising a family which came to include, in 1883 a daughter Daisy, who would in her miraculous lifetime connect the past with the present and so perpetuate that magnificent drama we call history.
Daisy Turner lived to see more than one hundred of her own years, finding as she went enough time in her busy schedule to give a documentary filmmaker a few minutes of priceless film poetry. Sitting blind and nearly totally deaf in a nursing home in Springfield, Vermont, that would be her final residence, with perfect diction she flawlessly recited the dozens of rhyming couplets that make up "The Soldiers Story" a poem she had known for more than 90 years, a heart-wrenching poem about about a young man's death in battle during the Civil War."
Ken Burns
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