From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 05:24:09 MST
[Cato Institute]
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of The
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder
Lane, and The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson. Cato Institute
celebrates Women's History
month by celebrating them.
http://www.cato.org/special/threewomen/index.html
By coincidence, late last night, I saw part of The Fountainhead (1949)
on Italian television. Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal speaking those
black and white lines in Italian was very interesting. I do like this
movie even though many find the characters wooden because this novel
represents a time in my life of a door opening into the world of
ideas for a very young Amara Graps. The movie (and novel) characters,
even with their flaws (human lives are much richer than what these
characters portray), are to me a dramatization of a philosophy of
living a life of integrity and striving to be better, and for that
I'm grateful for being introduced to Rand's works.
While I was trying to remember some details of this movie for this
post, I discovered via google, something else interesting:
"Welcome to the world of movies: Gnovies!
Gnovies is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine.
Let's make it the most useful movie resource on the net!"
It will generate for you a selection of other movies that you might
like from your input movie. For example, if one inputs The Fountainhead
into this engine, gnod thinks that you will also like: Village of the
Damned, Greed, War of the Worlds, Godfather Part II, which make me
wonder about components of the engine! I suggest exploring a bit,
and trying more of your own selections. Amuse yourself.
Amara
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