Yes, Jean Claude Van Damme had a great body. DH was a smimmer and he has a totally different body. Slim waist, strong upper arms and a well formed butt from all the "flipper" actions. Talking about Gnomeo and Juliet. I saw the trailers and they looked interesting. We don't go to the movie theaters any more, but we're still interested in what's happening. I bought this video from the net and find it very interesting. Here is a link that might be useful: Dante

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ..." This is part of Churchill's speech from Parliament. It was known as the 'Miracle of Dunkirk'. The term "Dunkirk Spirit" still refers to a popular belief in the solidarity of the British people in times of adversity. I have a friend who owns a 'Little Ship' - kinda cool. His kids grew up on it, on the Rideau Canal in summers. They swear it is haunted!! How could it not be. It came over to Canada on one of our aircraft carriers, in the 50's. I believe has just been fully restored for the umpteenth time - these craft are a truly a labour of love!! She took Best Boat in Show, at the 1935 London Boat Show!! Hard to imagine such a small(35'), lovely vessel was up to such a grim task. I just wanted to add two more bits of trivia here, sort of a 'Nancy Light' reveal: Sundowner(58'): owned by Charles Lightoller, former second officer of the Titanic, was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 30 May. Lightoller insisted that, if anyone was going to take her to Dunkirk, it would be him and his eldest son, Roger, together with Sea Scout Gerald Ashcroft. Leaving Port of Ramsgate at 10:00 on 1 June, the yacht crossed the Channel in company with five other ships. On their way, they rescued the crew of the motor cruiser Westerly, which had broken down and was on fire. On arrival at Dunkirk, Lightoller realized that the piers were too high, and so drew alongside the destroyer HMS Worcester and started to take on soldiers. Seventy-five men were crammed into the cabin, and another fifty-five on deck, a total of 130. Sundowner then returned to Ramsgate, avoiding fire from enemy aircraft through evasive manoeuvres on the way, though the greatest danger was being swamped by the wash from fast-moving destroyers(the Sundowner was capable of a top speed of 8 knots). After disembarking the troops at Ramsgate, she was preparing to return, but by then only ships capable of doing 20 knots were allowed to go. In the end, Germany captured Dunkirk, of course. But the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who escaped France that day lived to fight another day against Germany. Four years later, almost to the day, a great many of those men were on ships headed back to France, on D-Day. So, for Annette, Cyn, Chuck (yes, Cyn, he is getting his own stars!!!) and mnswgal: Thanks for playing!! I'm glad no one was offended by the 'war' theme today! As Lorna so eloquently noted - it is more about angels. Nancy. Here is a link that might be useful: The Full Story

Bumblebeez - whenever I happen upon Last of the Mohicans while channel flipping I stop immediately and watch it again. It gets me every time. Last night it was on AMC - Story Notes, an AMC feature where they insert captions at the bottom of the screen with brief 'notes' about the film. It's the first time I watched one - the notes were interesting the first time, but I wouldn't want to see it that way again. But I discovered you can simply read a list of the trivia on AMC's web site. Here is a link that might be useful: AMC Story Notes - Last of the Mohicans

You're right that the selection of Redbox movies is limited. They've long had issues contracting with major studios for their movies. I can't recall if it was the Blockbuster effort to keep them out so they didn't cut into Blockbuster's profits or whether the studios just believed that they get more money from Netflix, Blockbuster and satellite contracts. But now that Blockbuster is pretty much busted, maybe Redbox will be able to soften them up. I also get a lot of my movies from the library in the next town over (my own libary just doesn't have many DVDs, but it does have lots of books on CDs; the next town over's library has a reciprocal lending policy, so I have a library card there, too.) The only real issue there is that there can be long reserve lists. I think I was #140 or something to watch "The Reader"! But there's always something on the shelves that I haven't seen before, and the lending period is a full week instead of Redbox's 1 night. Like JMC, I rely heavily on my-tax-dollars-at-work library for DVDs, CDs and books. Can't recall the last time I actually purchased any of those materials, except at a library book sale!