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May 11, 2017 - 8:29 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I remember thinking highly of this thread, the name of which I could not remember in my search for it, though I knew sarge was the op. In bumping it now I have to wonder aloud if the board has the same quality it did in 2011 and today's posters would write anything worthwhile as those did here six years ago.
Everytime I try to write this it comes off like the schmaltz it is, but at least it captures the feeling of the moment. 
Anyway, there are several women who qualify as my "girl with the white parasol", and while I cannot say that there is a romantic element to it, there is a great curiosity and romanticism in imagining the interests said girls might have which makes them all the more appealing and idyllic.
The last time I saw such a girl was in Paris, that most romantic of cities, on a warm and sunny August afternoon, and it was in the Montparnasse Cemetery of all places. This was a living girl, thankfully, though I had been looking for the grave of Jean Seberg at the time.
There was a beautiful woman perhaps in her early 30s wearing a paisley dress. Her hair was the lightest brown and of shoulder-length ringlets. Her complexion was the lightest of olive tones. She was sitting on a bench and watched my lovely wife --who wore a Jean Seberg Breathless hairstyle at that time--and I walk by. She sat about twenty feet away. I looked over because I felt the weight of her stare. She made eye contact and smiled with her mouth as well as her eyes. Paris is a big "people watching" city so I took what I was experiencing as being just that, though the warmth of her smile--and most appealingly, the way her eyes smiled--made me realize I would not forget her. Just a lovely moment.
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"Who is YOUR girl with the white parasol?"
None of your business. But thanks for asking.
I will say this, though. In that same scene, Bernstein has one of my favorite lines in KANE or any other movie, when he's being asked about the unhappiness of C. F. K..
THOMPSON: He made a lot of money.
BERNSTEIN: It's not hard to make a lot of money, if all you want -- is to make a lot of money.
(And Everett Sloane times that little pause just perfectly.)
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) for the benefit of those who weren’t around and couldn’t contribute originally.
