My Current Interest

When I started watching the TV series Miss Marple , I found myself very confused. Joan Hickson was a much smaller and frailer Miss Marple than I had in mind. I eventually realized this belief was because of Margaret Rutherford. She was the first Miss Marple I recalled seeing and is taller and stockier than Joan Hickson. Because of this, the appearance of Margaret Rutherford is forever how Miss Marple should be in my mind. Ms. Rutherford played Miss Marple in four films. Five if you count the cameo in The Alphabet Murders . Her first Miss Marple was Murder, She Said . For years the only place I could watch any of these films was on Turner Classic Movies . I always looked forward to them being on, which wasn’t often. Now, thanks to a library sale, I have all four movies and can watch when I want. Let’s start with Murder, She Said . Murder, She Said A murder happens Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is certain she witnessed a murder. She saw it through the window of her moving tr...

One of my friends is a substitute teacher. Recently she had a conversation with a group of students about classic movies. The movies the students mentioned as classics were from the early 2000s. This sounded very strange to me as I see classic movies as being from the 1960s and before. Okay, I’ll add in the 70s and 80s too. But the early 2000s? That sounds too recent to me. This conversation was what I had in mind while I watched Scream . First released in 1996, it would certainly be a horror classic in some people’s minds. Again, an odd thought to me because I would see House on Haunted Hill , the 1959 film starring Vincent Price, as classic, not a movie from the 90s, but anyway . . . I decided to watch Scream because of the release of the fifth movie in the series. My thought was that before I watched the new movie, I should start from the beginning and work my way up to it. At the time I was not sure if I had seen all the movies in the series. I may have, but possibly not all t...