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A couple of weeks of activity, in some cases a month or two, but usually it's weeks and then . . nothing.
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Re: Life span of tribes
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 8:47 AMYeah, but Harold & Maude has been around since 1971, and so have its fans (like me, f'rinstance, I actually first saw it in 1971, and have seen it over 60 times in theaters) so its longevity might be reflected here.
To me they will always be glorious birds.
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Re: Life span of tribes
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 8:59 AMI too saw it when it first opened having no idea what movie I was about to see and was knocked out by it. I immediately began telling all my friends about it. They laughed and laughed just at my retelling it.
But it was the beginning of the end of something else. I was dating one of the most gorgeous women I ever have seen. She also was one of the smartest (at least academically) people I'd ever known. And after a while I found out that she had grown up with servants and a cook and a driver. So she even was enormously rich. This was good on so many levels. But then . . sorrow of sorrows . . When I started telling her about this great movie I had just seen, she said, "What made you think this was funny?"
Oh, God. Such a disappointment. How could I spend my life with someone who didn't get Harold & Maude?
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Re: Life span of tribes
Sun, March 7, 2004 - 9:22 AMI agree!! I could never spend my life with someone who didn't appreciate Harold & Maude!
Maude is a lot like who I aspire to be (though I'm more like Harold at times)--wouldn't bode well if my partner didn't like the film :-).
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Re: Life span of tribes
Mon, March 8, 2004 - 1:14 AMAmen! Harold and Maude is one of my checkpoints when I'm getting to know people. First I checkout if they've seen it. Some people haven't even -heard- of it. For shame! I've they know it and didn't like it, we usually don't groove. You know, Harold and Maude fans and non Harold and Maude fans just aren't the same type of people. I've turned a few people on to Harold and Maude, I'm happy to say.
and if you wanna sing out sing out if you wanna be free be free theres a million ways to be you know that there are -
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Re: Life span of tribes
Mon, March 8, 2004 - 1:16 AMOoops. My apologies for the double.
I just remembered. One of the nicest things someone has said to me was that I was their Maude. It was a really sweet thing to say. :) I feel a little swoony just saying it now. :)
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Re: Life span of tribes
Tue, March 9, 2004 - 6:45 AMWell, it's not people's fault if they haven't heard of it! But if they have seen it and don't like it, then, as we used to say in the 60s, their head is in a different space from mine. Yeah, I've also turned a lot of people on to it, but partly for the selfish reason of vicariously experiencing my "first time." It's so fun to actually take an H&M virgin to the theater and experience it right there with them! And it's best of all if they don't know anything about it. (Like, first time I saw it, taken by a friend back in 1971, the only thing I knew was it was about "a romance between an older woman and younger man," which sounds kinda boring.)
See, this is why we should be =thankful= that there are still people out there who haven't heard of it, because they give us this opportunity to relive our first time through them!
BTW, trying to think what movie it was ... some movie I saw on TV a couple years ago, think it was "Something About Mary," the title character is one of us! Her favorite movie was Harold & Maude and that was also her standard of figuring out who she would get along with. Some guy had bugged her place and found that out, among other preferences she had, and so he pretended to like all the same things she did, including H&M. (Someone tell me if I have the right movie?)
Like some licorice?
Gayle
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Re: Life span of tribes
Tue, April 6, 2004 - 7:07 PMI'm not so sure. I think Harold and Maude is best seen at a certain time in your life (a time which may re-occur again and again) to really hit home. Though it absolutely changed my life, really and truly, I can also imagine that if I didn't see it at the right moments, then it wouldn't have made such an impact on me. So then I would surely hope that a wonderful potential partner wouldn't dump me over bad timing.
Happily, my wonderful confirmed partner and I bond lovingly over Harold & Maude, so it's all hypothetical to me.
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