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The importance that OSC places on the concept of family in his writings has raised my awareness of the families that are formed in books and films.
I'm not sure if [m]any of you have the old 1942 Bette Davis film 'Now, Voyager.' The film concludes with a unique variant of a family, and I would be interested in discussing this further.
But I will not go into my shpiel until someone here actually admits to having watched the whole movie.
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You mean about the male lighting two cigarettes and giving one to the female? Or about what smoking symbolizes in old movies?
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Yes, EMERAC was one of the first computers to appear in a movie. Desk Set (1957) is indeed the movie, starring my favorite screen team, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
It's a light and fluffy comedy about reference librarians who are afraid that the big evil computer will take away their jobs.
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I adore that movie. I own it, and watch it periodically. It has to be one of my favorite Hepburn/Tracy movies around!
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Adam's Rib is my other favorite! I think it's brilliant.
Yes, Nini Golightly does refer to Breakfast at Tiffany's... I'm a big fan of the Hepburn women. Nini's been a nickname of mine for a while, so I sort of combined them. I love old movies, I own quite a few of them!
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The model for the emerac can be visited in the data processing exhibit of the Smithsonian Institute in DC.
It's located just as you turn left going down the stairs from the display of the old Eniac machine and the video loops of Alan Turing and before you hit the exhibit on the personal computer revolution. It looks exactly like the machine the Desk Set movie. All Art-Deco and metallic. Cool.
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