Went to see the new Kevin Costner-Robert Duvall movie, "Open Range." Tom and I both liked it a lot. I'm mixed on Kevin Costner because, as Tom pointed out, he has such a droning voice. But I like his appreciation for expansive natural vistas, mountains, prairies, and so on, which are used beautifully in "Open Range," as they were in "Dances With Wolves."
These movies are like a vacation for me. I really liked Robert Duvall in this one. He makes an excellent old-timer in this and in "The Apostle," which I'd like to see again. As the New Yorker review of "Open Range" pointed out, Costner defers to Duvall throughout the movie. I found that this created a warm (but not gushy) relationship between the two characters and also took the emphasis off of Costner's droning delivery. Annette Bening was fabulous too. "Open Range" was sort of like "Little House on the Prairie" with gunfights and other conflict. (I mean that in a good way. "Little House on the Prairie" was one of my favorite shows when I was about ten.)
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1 - TDavid
Fran - if you please clean this up, someone will easier be able to read it ;)
Eric - a friendly suggestion: you should add to the instructions to check through the text on the site once changed from draft to published for garbage text. Or, better yet, have Phillip go through and strip out these illegal characters from the submitted text.
2 - Fran
Thanks! I cleaned it up. Sorry about that.
Eric - I think there's a way to prevent text from being turned into garbage characters... my MT blog doesn't have that problem and I use the same MS Word setup (same document even) to type it, copy and paste. How do other people prevent it in their posts? Surely not by manually retyping into the MT blog interface?
3 - Eric Olsen
The problem is smart quotes and dashes, which make those "A" things. It seems to have something to do with the Amazon script because they don't show up if there is no Amazon link. just turn off the smart quotes in Word, paste it in and please check it before you go on your merry way. thanks!