mikemiller1955
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As many of you probably know......Galveston Island, (where I live) was underwater last year from Hurricane Ike.
Some of my friends got 8-10 feet of water in their homes, I was lucky only getting 3 feet.
Of course my dvd player was underwater and ruined, along with my television and all my furniture, electrical, floors and furnishings, etc....
Like everyone else did or is currently doing..........I rebuilt.
Anyway our Blockbuster Video Rental and Hollywood Video Rental never re-opened, so I have not rented a dvd in almost a year.
I just bought a new player yesterday and joined Netflix.
I got my first two movies in the mail the following day.
Andersonville...Author MacKinley Kantor's ambitious Civil War novel -- about the inmates of the notoriously overcrowded and brutal Confederate prison camp (the world's first concentration camp) in Andersonville, Georgia -- was adapted as a television miniseries for TNT. Frederic Forrest stars in this gritty drama helmed by John Frankenheimer, who won a Best Director Emmy Award. Also stars William H. Macy, Carmen Argenziano and Michael Haynes.
The Black Robe...In 1634, Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) arrives in the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron and Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Although the Algonquin chief (August Schellenberg) offers guidance and friendship, Laforgue doesn't endear himself to the natives. On a journey up the St. Lawrence River, a devastating chain of events causes Laforgue to question his beliefs and forever changes the natives' way of life.
I had seen it before, but if you like the Civil War, Andersonville is on my recommended list.
The Black Robe, was recommended to me by John Jenkins and tells a great story about Indian life and their concepts and ideas of the "white man" in their society.
I recommend them both.
Some of my friends got 8-10 feet of water in their homes, I was lucky only getting 3 feet.
Of course my dvd player was underwater and ruined, along with my television and all my furniture, electrical, floors and furnishings, etc....
Like everyone else did or is currently doing..........I rebuilt.
Anyway our Blockbuster Video Rental and Hollywood Video Rental never re-opened, so I have not rented a dvd in almost a year.
I just bought a new player yesterday and joined Netflix.
I got my first two movies in the mail the following day.
Andersonville...Author MacKinley Kantor's ambitious Civil War novel -- about the inmates of the notoriously overcrowded and brutal Confederate prison camp (the world's first concentration camp) in Andersonville, Georgia -- was adapted as a television miniseries for TNT. Frederic Forrest stars in this gritty drama helmed by John Frankenheimer, who won a Best Director Emmy Award. Also stars William H. Macy, Carmen Argenziano and Michael Haynes.
The Black Robe...In 1634, Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) arrives in the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron and Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Although the Algonquin chief (August Schellenberg) offers guidance and friendship, Laforgue doesn't endear himself to the natives. On a journey up the St. Lawrence River, a devastating chain of events causes Laforgue to question his beliefs and forever changes the natives' way of life.
I had seen it before, but if you like the Civil War, Andersonville is on my recommended list.
The Black Robe, was recommended to me by John Jenkins and tells a great story about Indian life and their concepts and ideas of the "white man" in their society.
I recommend them both.
