My Current Interest

                 I was not one of the original watchers of Downton Abbey .   In fact, I did not know the show even existed until the awards committees began nominating it.   While I was intrigued as to what all the excitement was about, it took me awhile to finally get the discs and find out for myself.   At first I did not see the thrill.   My dislike was to the extent that I almost did not get the second disc, but I did.   The reason for my not liking the show was mainly because of one character.   Mary.   I could not stand her.   As a matter of fact, I still cannot.   I think there is a point in each episode where I try to get rid of her.   Thankfully the other characters have begun to shine and I have found so many positive reasons to continue on with the series.                ...

                Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director of all time.   Tim Burton comes in a close second, and I mean extremely close, but Mr. Hitchcock takes the prize.   Now every Sunday in September Turner Classic Movies is airing a day of Hitchcock movies.   As I am not exactly a football person, which takes up a lot of the channels on Sundays, this day of great films is fantastic for me.                         While I own quite a few Hitchcock movies, there are so many I have never seen, or even heard of.   These Sundays let me see so many films that I may never be exposed to otherwise.   Last Sunday alone I watched one movie I had never seen ( The Wrong Man ), and three I did not know even existed ( Stage Fright , I Confess , and Foreign Correspondent ).   Some I...

                As far as I know of my high school did not have Saturday detentions.   I am not even sure how popular regular detention was.   Yes, people got into trouble, and maybe they went to detention, but it was not something I really paid attention to.   If I had gotten detention, I think I would have preferred for it to be after school instead of using up an entire Saturday as it does in The Breakfast Club .                          In this classic movie, five students are forced to attend a Saturday detention for various reasons.   Only two of them, Claire (Molly Ringwald) and Andy (Emilio Estevez), know each other as they have similar social circles, but the others all have different crowds.   Rebellious John (Judd Nelson), loner Allison (Ally Sheedy), and stud...

                  Last year there was a lot of coverage about the 100 th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.   I watched a lot of different specials and at least one of the new movies.   While the movie was a work of historical fiction, the specials were more factual.   I found them to be really interesting as the people involved discussed what happened and could have been prevented.   They went through a lot of different evidence and explained their theories about the events surrounding the Titanic.   The novel The Dressmaker is a work of historical fiction and does not center itself around evidence.   It is the story of a young woman who survived the Titanic and the events of her life immediately afterwards.                 Tess is, for lack of a better term, a servant.   She hate...

                 I am just eating up this mystery series.   Not literally since I do not think paper would taste very good and I do not want to hurt the books, but you know what I mean.   Once I finish one book in the series I put the next one on hold at the library.   At the moment I have read the first three, starting with Pleating for Mercy .   The sad thing is I think there are only four books in the series so far.   I am about to finish all there is too read!   Hopefully there is a fifth one in the works and it will come out soon.                                 Harlow Cassidy has returned to her hometown of Bliss, Texas after spending years in New York working in the fashion industry.   She has inherited her great-g...