I guess there was a movie made about it a long time ago. I put some of it on my facebook page. Did you here one of the guys contradict what that Youtube video was saying? It said they were told the lion wouldn't remember them and they said that wasn't true. They knew the lion would remember them. Still I just loved the way Christian reacted when he saw those two. You should go to youtube and watch some of longer versions. In a couple of them Christian jumps up into their arms. So cute. Very heart warming!

I have paperbacks my parents had that date back to the 50's and haven't broken down yet, but I have new paperbacks which break down and have pages comeing out after the second read. For SURE they aren't made as well as they used to be made and I'm sure that some are worse than others. The same goes with hard back books, they used to be made much better - I have old hardbacks that must be 50 years old now and are in fine shape except for some yellowing of pages. However, the hardbacks I buy now will never last that long or for as many repeated readings. Nothing is made as well as it used to be made and that WalMart book sounds like it was made like trash - read and toss. It's a real shame.

I saw it. That is sooo cool. He even bought his "mate" around to meet them. What a tear jerker! Gayle

IÂve just finished to read The prince of Tides, which I read more or less twenty years ago for the first time. Of course I remebred very well what the book was about, but rerading it I was able to get back a lot of details that I had lost. In particular I remebered the strongest passages of WingoÂs family, and I had lost the "poetic" pages. An other thing, IÂm now able to compared the book and the film, because I saw it many times lately, in order to improve my listening-skills. In my opinion the book and the film are complementary to each other , the book tells Tom Wingo memories for 80% of the story and 20% is about Tom in New York, the movie is just the other way around. I think Barbra Streisand did a great job, and always in my humble opinion, she has improved a few naiveties of the author of the book, Pat Conroy. For instance doctor Lowenstein is far much believeble as psychiatrist, in the film than in the book. now I cut and past a little of the plot , for whom havenÂt read the book nor seen the film Things come to a head when Tom learns that his beautiful and talented twin, Savannah, has tried to commit suicide again. As she lays comatose in a New York City mental hospital, Savannah's psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein, urges Tom to travel to New York. Doctor Lowenstein realizes that the only thing that can help save Savannah is to unlock the secrets of her terrible childhood (something that all the Wingo children have long suppressed and refuse to talk about). Tom flies to New York reluctantly, and at first, presents Dr. Lowenstein with a façade made up of humor, sarcasm and even rudeness. But Dr. Lowenstein eventually is able to break down Tom's protective shell to discover the horrors that took place during the Wingo's childhood. She also realizes that in trying to save Savannah, that this might also be Tom's last chance to save himself. But it turns out that Lowenstein has erected her own protective mask to hide her own unhappiness. With a remote husband and a spoiled son, Tom is able to turn the tables and help the good doctor in promoting a little self-healing as well. Now IÂm nearly through with "The Confessions of Max Tivoli" and IÂve got conflicting feelings about it. I hope , with the beginning of the discussion I will be able to clear up my mind grelobe