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Old 03-31-2010, 04:11 PM   #136
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Glad the competition is done and went well. Casablanca is one of my all time favorite movies! Love it!! Have fun doing laundry and packing!!! It will be here before you know it!
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Your trip sounds great. It is so funny, because we are working on seeing all of the movies from the GMR, too! I don't have as many of them to watch as you do. I have seen most of them, but I'm looking forward to the ones I have never seen before.

Enjoy your trip! I hope you like "Casablanca." I own it. It's a great film!
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My papa told me that he met James Cagney after the war was over. He was in a bar in New York City right after he arrived home from England. There was a man who was dancing on the bar to some new music that had just come out. He told me he was watching the man from a distance but could tell that he was a man who my papa recognized. Papa got up and walked over towards the bar and it was James Cagney. When he got done dancing he and my papa wound up talking at the bar, for a while, about the war and what papa did while serving. Pretty neat story I thought. I'm just trying to add to your classic movie crush. Get ready for your Marakesh Sunset or Sunrise I can't remember that actual name.
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Pom Baker, is that your April Fool's joke? I don't know if I can believe you or not

And we polished off The Public Enemy last night. Second Cagney flick, and yes, it's true... not my April Fool's joke.. I do believe I've developed a classic movie actor crush

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I think you've inspired me to see all the GMR movies too - I've seen several, but not too many of the older ones. Although I have seen Casablanca as we own that movie.

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Pom Baker, is that your April Fool's joke? I don't know if I can believe you or not

And we polished off The Public Enemy last night. Second Cagney flick, and yes, it's true... not my April Fool's joke.. I do believe I've developed a classic movie actor crush

Mousekeeping envelopes are designed. Just gotta print them out. Laundry process started yesterday. Now I just need today and tomorrow to go uber quick here at work
I think watching the movies of The Great Movie Ride is such a cool idea! I never thought of doing that!

Every trip I say I'm going to print out Mousekeeping envelopes and I always forget! I hope I remember for this year's trip!
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And we polished off The Public Enemy last night. Second Cagney flick, and yes, it's true... not my April Fool's joke.. I do believe I've developed a classic movie actor crush

Mousekeeping envelopes are designed. Just gotta print them out. Laundry process started yesterday. Now I just need today and tomorrow to go uber quick here at work
If you like Cagney, you need to see him in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Wow! He blew audiences away back then when he showed them he wasn't just a gangster actor. It's based on the true life story of Broadway composer George M. Cohan. Put it in your Netflix queue!
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If you like Cagney, you need to see him in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Wow! He blew audiences away back then when he showed them he wasn't just a gangster actor. It's based on the true life story of Broadway composer George M. Cohan. Put it in your Netflix queue!
I'm totally gonna be Netflixing more I will do that one next I think Andy had Angels with Dirty Faces already in our queue for later, but I'll be putting your suggestion above it
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