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speelyei wrote:The North Face, a movie about the tragic attempt on the north face of the eiger by Hinterstoissier and Kurz. Hands down, the best climbing movie I've ever seen. Excellent attention to detail, the Hollywood treatment doesn't detract from the real story. Anyone interested in climbing should read Eiger: Wall of Death, it follows the fatal attempts to climb the North Face. Since 1935, 64 people have died trying to climb it... it reads like a Stephen King novel.

nm wrote:Girl 27

~2007 documentary about the 1937 rape of MGM movie extra Patricia Douglas, the front-page news stories that followed, and the subsequent cover-up of the entire event

Also covered are the rape of singer Eloise Spann and her subsequent suicide, as well as the better known scandal involving actress Loretta Young and her "adopted" daughter Judy Lewis~


This GIRL....Patricia Douglas....was 17 when she was "attacked" by an MGM salesman that was 36. She finally told her story in 2003...at 83....and she still couldn't use the word rape.

Excellent documentary. Sad.

Regarded by academics as one of the most influential educators of the 1960s and '70s, Albert Cullum championed what is by today's standards an unorthodox educational philosophy built upon the fervent belief that the only way teachers can be successful with children is to speak directly to their hearts and to their instinctive and largely ignored capacity to quickly understand and identify with the great personalities, ideas and emotions found in classical literature. To that end, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, exposed them to great works of art and engaged them in the events of world history. Without leaving the classroom, his students visited King Tut's tomb, attended joint sessions of the U.S. Congress, operated on bleeding nouns in his "grammar hospital," and clamored to play the timeless roles of Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth and Hamlet.......then unknown filmmaker, Robert Downey (the irreverent director of the independent classic Putney Swope) filmed many of Cullum's classroom events. These lush black and white films, with original music created by Tom O'Horgan, capture the work of this radical teacher and the amazing passion for learning that his students embraced.