......... .......... .......... ....... .. ... .. . ... .. .. .. .. .. .. Sunday morning. I don't do much traditional blogging here. This week I came across the blog of a friend here in ALT. His was a true blog. For a good stretch of time he described his day, openly charting his feelings about a slave he was looking for, a woman he saw at the diner, the unrelenting need to cut the grass and things like that. After reading about 20 of his entries, it struck me how strong a sense I had of him. And I'm reminded of "Come Together", a song with very simple words but lots and lots behind them: He roller coaster. He got ... early warning. He got ... muddy water. He want ... mucho filter. He say ... one and one and one is three ... So, I suppose, there are many kinds of blogs. Each say their peace, each give some revelation. Some are direct, others ... mucho filter. There is a collection of movies that, for guys, no matter how many times you've seen it, if you flip to it, you'll stop and watch some. Classic Bogart movies. The Dirty Dozen (except near the end). Lots and lots of WWII moves. Wedding Crashers. Roadhouse. One of mine is "Open Range" with Costner, Duvall and Bening. A western. Costner is simply Charlie. Duvall is Boss. Before the final gunfight, they still don't even know their real names. Mucho filter. So many of the scenes between Costner and Bening are archtypal, the way westerns can be. Duvall's final gunfight scene is that way too. The final scene with Costner and Bening every single woman on the planet should study. I mean that. Every one. Well, every heterosexual woman without a bitter modernistic femmenazi streak. In another scene, a wonderfully calm one before Costner and Duvall walk across a field into town for a massive gunfight; Bening is standing in a Victorian doorway, set on the front porch, her house surrounded by a white picket fence; and she talks about being in a small town, and having hopes, and time passing. "As you grow old, you forget even what your hopes were hung on to." Or something like that. Funny, in the IMDb listing, Sue Barlow has next to no lines listed. Mucho filter. But we all live in small towns. And we all ... Best to the rest of your weekend. tgd

Quoting MasterWolfmann:

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I just saw that movie again the other day. I too like it very much and I also have the same feeling you do about that one scene with them.

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I mention many scenes above. Which scene are you referring to?

And I will take this time to correct a grave error: it would be wrong to mention movies that guys will always watch and not mention the great Clint Eastwood. Easily 10 Clint movies get watched without even thinking.

tgd