I Am A Swede

The British version of "Who's the Boss" called "The Upper Hand", with a theme song eerily reminiscent of the theme from "Knots Landing":

We can't forget this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9poYbl9AwvI&feature=related One of the most beautiful opening music ever.

More children's programs. This is the opening to the British tv-series "The World of Peter Rabbit", a series of short animated films based on the beloved stories by Beatrix Potter. Playing Beatrix in this live-action opening is actress Niamh Cusack. And here's the end credits, with the beautiful song "Perfect Day", sung by Miriam Stockley:

A true classic, and a movie you can watch over and over again.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pFX2AIsb78

If there was an emoticon rolling around laughing I would use that right now. But I guess this will have to do:

Three classic Swedish children's programs from my childhood: "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter" (rough translation: "Five ants are more than four elephants") This is a Swedish version of "Sesame Street" "Stjärnhuset" (rough translation: Star house") In a house high up on a mountain top a woman named Mytha tells stories from Greek mythology to a young friend named Astro "Trolltider" (rough translation: "Trolltimes") In a small forest glade lives a group of tiny trolls, a fairy, a witch and a gnome with a cap that can make him invisible....

You don't need to have photo ID to vote in the U.S? That is definitely a requirement if you want to vote here! I just assumed that was the case everywhere. Or at the very least that you would have to produce some sort of identification.

Three exquisite British crime dramas, with three of the most beautiful theme songs ever written.... Inspector Morse Foyle's War The Inspector Dalgliesh series based on the books by P.D. James http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP2BZQayIWk

Lovely music, and wonderful series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7Z1q9hL2I My all-time favourite tv-show, and the theme song is not at all bad either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEPFpDLdNFY Here's a longer version of the theme music:

Here's Sylvia singing the same song 35 years later!

With all due respect, I find it very difficult to imagine that anyone would be thinking very logically after being raped. It's all very well to speculate about how one would react, but I just don't think one can imagine something like that. And, frankly I think that applies even more to both you and me as males, especially when it comes to the matter of pregnancy after rape.

One of my all-time favourites..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCj7joT1nYc Has there ever been a more beautiful couple on the big screen than Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh?

I'm speechless. I didn't think ignorance like that still existed. Or at least I hoped it didn't. But I guess you can never underestimate the stupidity of people.

A classic movie based on a classic play. This is a scene from "Pygmalion" based on the G.B. Shaw play with the same name. Wendy Hiller, playing Eliza Doolittle, here becomes the first actress in British film to utter the word "bloody". Co-starring as Professor Henry Higgins was Leslie Howard.

It's sad to read about the state of Emmerdale nowadays. I quit watching earlier this year and it was surprisingly easy. I thought it would be much harder to let it go, since this was the first "grown-up" show I ever watched. My mother used to watch it in the 70s, and I watched it with her. It came on at 6.15 p.m., right after the early evening news, and I was allowed to stay up and watch it before going to bed. I had no idea what was happening, since this was before I could understand English, and before I could read properly, but I remember loving the theme song. I then watched it on and off during the 80s, but became a steady viewer from the early 1990s. But the last few years it has become more and more a chore to get through each episode, and I finally gave up. The death of Jack Sugden robbed this show of its heart, and I don't think it can ever get it back. And when I read here about the insane decision to kill off Viv and Terry that was the last straw for me..... R.I.P Emmerdale Farm.....

Of course! Another true classic, with the, perhaps, greatest swashbuckling hero ever in Errol Flynn. He made so many fantastic movies during the 30s and early 40s. "Captain Blood", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", The Sea Hawk", "They Died with Their Boots On" and many more.

I saw this being suggested in another thread, so I thought why not.... Let's talk about classic films! Which ones do you like? Which ones don't you like? Which movies do you consider classics? Favourite actors and actresses? Let's start with the perhaps most classic of all the classics.... It might not be the best movie ever made, but if any movie can be labeled a true classic this is it:

In memory of the 77 people who, one year ago today, lost their lives in Norway......