Christine Collins and her missing son

I always love real life stories movies. Most times, after watching them, I go online wanting to read more about these stories. The real people who were portrayed in the movies.

The movie ~ Changeling is portrayed based on the real life story of a single mother whose 9 year old son went missing. The frantic search for her son, her fights against the LA Police Department who goofed up on her case and her lawsuits after. One thing for sure, at 78 Clint Eastwood is still on a roll, still making and directing movies.

Anyway, above 2 pictures are the real Christine Collins and her son, Walter Collins. At the end of the movie, Mrs Collins still had hope to find her missing son. She died at the age of 94 in 1985, never finding him.

By now, if Walter is still alive, he is 90 years old. Imagine the power of the internet and the publicity of this movie, somewhere out there....someone, some family members of his (if he got married and has children of his own or his grandkids), or his friends who can come forward to tell us, the world, yes, Walter survived the gruesome serial killings of children then.....he escaped. what a closure to Mrs Collin's tragic life.

Was also interesting to read articles on the real serial killer of children portrayed in the movie ~ Gordon Stewart Northcott. It was real satisfying watching the hanging scene of this killer.......!!!!

Angelina Joline ~ deservedly nominated for this year's Oscar Best Actress category. Although I think Meryl Streep deserves to win this award as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in "Doubt".

Movie Review:Frost/Nixon

Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the USA....embroiled in the scandals of the Watergate and causing his downfall to continue sitting in the Oval office. In history, he was the only American President who ever resigned from his post.

A pretty much predictable movie for those who know history, although I could not understand why this movie got nominated for Best Picture Oscar 2009. Nothing spectacular about the acting, the storyline, the directing. It's just scenes put forward for audiences to be reminded again of Richard Nixon. A matter of personal opinion if I may say. Much has been known that Nixon was paid $1 Million for this interview, took it lightly, thought this interview would launch him into the public life but instead was put in history records as the political pariah.

I like history. I like historical figures who made their impacts and footprints in defining history. Nixon is not new to the political world and the powers that come along with it. As ex-President of the most superpower house on this planet, his off-guard statement in regard to the Watergate scandal to David Frost:

"when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal"

Such profound statement. Such arrogance. Which is actually not surprising at all if we assess the local political scenes in Malaysia's own backyards. Every other day, we will be reading the behaviours, antics by our own politicians who think that just because they hold the powers in their hands, forgetting those who voted and gave them those keys, they are behaving exactly like Nixon. What they do, it seemingly does not appear illegal to their minds. You know who they are. 2 months from now, we are going to have the biggest tainted question-mark credibility man to head this government's administration.

This and that

Bathmat Mat Walks.

Isn't this a neat creative idea?

Would be great if I can buy one of them, but so expensive!! 29,95 € !!!!! That's 140 frigging ringgit!!! You can order from this site: http://www.design-3000.de/index.php?cl=details&ref=226152&affmt=2&affmn=10&anid=60f4978770dcfd743.88442516

It was designed and created as part of the project "Droog Hotel" in 2002. Droog Design asked designers for ideas how to upgrade a One-Star-Hotel. Mat Walk was a design for the hotelrooms' bathrooms. Won't it be nice to use one of these to wipe the floors after you mop them. Slippery wet floors will be a thing in the past!!.

This is good business idea.......I think I will experiment to sew one. have lots of those old towels which I can use. will update once i make them.

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The Oscars 2009 nominates these movies:

Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Milk
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Be it as it may, I personally think Milk deserves the oscar. But the little publicity movie, Slumdog Millonaire might win hands down.

And Sean Penn deserves to bring home the Best Actor's trophy. He missed his calling in "I am Sam". Although, it is possible the Oscar might go to Brad Pitt.

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Chestnut:

Rodney Dangerfield said: "My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock."

A trip down memory lane.......

What do you do on a Deepavali holiday? Take the trip down memory lane to watch ......

M a M M a M I a

What a delightful movie ~ it just brings back all those memories. Memories when I used to have a cut-out picture of Pierce Brosnan and put it under my pillow (was told if you do this, you can dream about the guy all night long! haha) and he is still hot! Spending the money to buy the latest cassette tape of Abba's album and playing them over and over and over again.

And you, you, Colin Firth.......gosh, hard to imagine Mr Darcy singing Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), Voulez Vous, Our last summer. Dellishious!!!

Songs like Take A Chance on me, Money Money Money, Supertrouper, Waterloo, The Winner takes it all, Chiquitita, I have a dream, etc etc etc....it was so delightful singing along with most of the songs. Heck, I know the lyrics by heart from all those years of listening. The storyline is simple, embedding most of their famous songs with a particular scene. Abba's songs are so catchy and yummy! Only thing about the movie is my dream man ~ Pierce, you can't sing, baby! Take more of those singing lessons, wil ya?

To all the casts, producers, director and all other crews of Mama Mia......so I say:

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing

Thanks for all the joy they're bringing

Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty

What would life be?

Without a song or a dance what are we?

So I say thank you for the music....for giving it to me

Merryl Streep, you go, girl!