Hey:

If you're interested in movies, search IMDb. I just stumbled across this site, looking for an old movie, Boomerang (not the Eddie Murphy lame comedy that has nothing to do with this movie.) As it turns out, the movie is not available on DVD. (I have it on video.) This website not only has extensive reviews and information on over 3,500 movies, it links to web sites where you can buy the movie, by country. I can see I'll be going back to this for a long time.

Yesterday, I got my DVD of The Body Snatcher (considered by some to be Boris Karloff's best film.) It came from China (not the alternate title of the movie.) I picked it up through eFilmic for $6.99. It's a quality print and is in English, but has chinese subtitles. When I tried to get rid of the subtitles, all the instructions in the menu are in Chinese... :-) It took some experimenting to figure out how to get rid of the subtitles, because there are 7 choices. Six of them are for other oriental languages, from the looks of it. I finally tried the 6th choice on the list, and it removed the subtitles. I had to laugh at the subtitles because they are very complete. Unlike movies where the character is speakeing for a minute and the English subtile is "Hello," the subtitles are so complete that in some scenes they almost cover the complete screen... you have to try to figure out what's going on behind all the chinese characters.

Now that I've figured out how to get rid of the subtitles, I'll watch the movie tonight when Ruth is safely ensconced upstairs watching the decorating channel. She don't like scary movies, and while this movie is not at all explicit, visually, it is definitely very creepy.

Your schedule sounds like mine, Ron. I cancelled my service at the nursing home this morning because my cold is lingering... much better, but still here. I had practice last night, and last Saturday, and have practice on Wednesday night, too. And preformances with my group and both of the Male Choruses I sing in coming up, and have just agreed to be chairman of one of the Male Chorus annual concerts. As I said to my brother-in-law, my plate is full, but it's all deserts..

Jerry