The Color Purple, was Re: [Sca-cooks] Imperium Compound

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 15 02:47:07 PDT 2006


 
> "My Fair Lady" is okay.  The costumes, IMHO, are much too Hollywood.  "Gosford
> Park"
> and "Remains of the Day" are during the 1930's, while I am going for 1910-14,
> pre-WWI.  
> Better would be "A Room with a View" or "Howard's End".  There are a lot of
> Masterpiece 
> Theater/BBC productions using that era as the backdrop.  Like
> "Upstairs/Downstairs".
> Or "The Duchess of Duke Street". Or "The Forsyte Saga". Or the recent "The
> Lost Prince".

Alas, the things I do for research!  <hand stapled to forehead, dramatic
pose>  That should be enough for this OOP thread on this list, we'll discuss
things further offlist.

Hugs, Selene 




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