As some of you may know I've been watching the old miniseries Winds of War. After it ended abruptly, I moved on to the sequel, War and Remembrance. Two things I knew before I started watching it:

1. That I'd seen it before.
2. That I'd hated it.

Why am I watching it again? Maybe for the same reason I try to read The Scarlet Letter every 10 years ( Read more... )

1. We've reached the halfway point of Grapemo 2013. YAY US! Please remember to send in your progress reports by Sunday night for positing on Monday.


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So Briny and Natalie make it out of Warsaw. Briny heads to Berlin to meet up with his folks while Natalie hightails it to Stockholm. Later they meet up again, back in Italy, where Natalie's Uncle Aaron is being warned to GET OUT OF ITALY (as all his ex-pat Jewish-American neighbors have already done ( Read more... )

With American Horror Story: Asylum now ended (*sob*) and Downton Abbey also nearing its finale, I was looking for something to fill my leisure time (like I have any) and remembered an old miniseries I watched back in the eighties:

WINDS OF WAR, based on the Herman Wouk novel.


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