Sorry for my earlier rant...spent the night in the ER with a very sick five year old. For what it is worth the care she received was quick and efficent and much better than when she almost died in an understaffed Canadian hospital outside of montreal last year. SG and most others have politly expressed their view but it is still a thread of us trying to show that what we want should be believed by all and that never works. Greywings i did say if I had tea party friends, which I am glad I do not, my stats would be different but my radical liberal friends,which are abuntant in my area, are also spreading lots of lies and hate they think it is fine because it is directed against the rich mostly but it is still prejudice. The radicals in each party are equally dangerous, hurtful and annoying

Yes, love all the characters in the BBC 10 year old version and have been Tivoing the Masterpiece Theater series. The BBC mother was such a wonderful embarrassment. Mr. Collins so oily--how he would rush his fingers to his lips when interrupted. Colin--what else to say but to drool! Lady Catherine DeBeurve (sp?) was so much better scripted in that version too. Clearly, the BBC script was superior--how else to explain Sutherland and Judy Dench being so forgettable? The BBC father was loving to his daughters, while Sutherland seemed merely a disconnected slob. Mr. Bingley in this version was so daft, silly and effeminate that I wonder why anyone would be attracted to him except for his fortune. And with such an unpleasant mother and father, how on earth could the elder daughters have turned out to be so nice? Moreover, the costuming left a lot to be desired. Clearly it did depict them as poor and with poor taste as well. I noticed they also truncated the story of the youngest sister's potential ruination of herself and her sisters. I prefer the BBC version in every aspect.

FYI for movie food fans: Delightful 1985 Japanese food movie ‘Tampopo’ is back in theaters SF Chronicle, November 15, 2016 “Tampopo”: Imagine a foodie movie structured like a spaghetti Western. That is the delightful approach of Juzo Itami’s classic 1985 film “Tampopo,” about a mysterious drifter, complete with Man With No Name cowboy hat, who wanders into the life of a widowed mother and assembles a team — a sort of magnificent seven — to transform her flailing ramen shop into something special. The movie delighted American audiences in 1987 and created a wave of quirky, lovable Japanese comedies in international theaters over the next decade, from Itami’s “A Taxing Woman” to Masayuki Suo’s “Shall We Dance?” Approaching its 30th anniversary in U.S. theaters, Janus Films has restored the film for rerelease. The drifter is Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki), a truck driver who seems to know every two-bit ramen place in Japan. Riding shotgun is his loyal partner and fellow foodie Gun (a super-young Ken Watanabe, a quarter of a century before embarking on an American film career in such films as “Inception”). The widow, Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto, Itami’s real-life wife at the time), has assumed the family business after her husband’s death, and struggles to maintain the business and find time to raise her young son. Goro sees the potential in Tampopo (the Japanese word for dandelion) and decides to help her. He recruits an aging ramen master, a noodle expert, a contractor well-versed in interior design and others while putting Tampopo through a ramen-making boot camp. Part of the charm of “Tampopo” is Itami’s use of completely unrelated sidebars devoted not only to love of food, but also love of movies. Most notably, Koji Yakusho has a few scenes as a mysterious man in a white suit who incorporates food as part of his erotic passions with his lover (Fukumi Kuroda). “Tampopo” is an utter delight, but you also find a lot about how to make good ramen (a special screening took place during last weekend’s San Francisco Ramen Tasting Competition).

Yo, Lilo, I know going to the theater is not really an option for you adn the video store is your venue. Hope you get your equipment fixed soon because there is a lot of great stuff out there!