Sweeney Todd and also Out of Africa! NM

• All time favorite movie? - mt
  • favorite movie ever - Les R.
  • Kingdom of Heaven - Kaydie
  • I gotta go with the American Pie movies - mtroadie
  • Gone with the Wind and Titanic. (nm) - x
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a great film - exasperated
  • Sweeney Todd and also Out of Africa! NM - For many reasons
  • too many - jlynn
  • The Godfather I and II. A study of misplaced honor. - bada bing
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, movie and book - nm
  • that's a hard question -- - meme
  • Apollo 13. Hanks is always phenomenal - giddy pc guru
  • Just like a potato chip, can't pick just one! - me
  • Absolutely Dirty Dancing - PAMT~MDM
    • That one is definitely in my top 5 - trose
  • The Great Race. Anyone else even heard of it? - moo

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I would appreciate your opinions. I was just blown away by the young boy singing to Mrs. Lovett "No one's gonna harm you."  I was in the mood for something different, and this was it. I thought it was just wonderful. What an ending!

Women will never run Africa (who is Oprah kidding?!) as long as Arab terrorists known as Janjaweed are still controlling at least 80% of Africa.........

Women running Africa - Don't I wish!!!  But it's more backwards there than here - and we know how most feel about having a woman run THIS country............. and for Africa it certainly isn't going to happen in our time or Oprah's time either........unfortunately.

http://www.godsgoldenacre.org.uk/ - I read a book this weekend called "God's Golden Acre" which is a biography of a woman, Heather Reynolds, who started a program in the South African province of Kwa Zulu-Natal, in the valley of a 1000 hills. She helps children who have been orphaned primarily due to their parents dying of AIDs.  Right now I have children of my own who need me, but when they are adults, if I am physically able, I want to go over and do as much as I can - I am very happy because for the first time, I feel like I know what I am meant to do in this lifetime.  In the meantime, they ask people to donate if they can or at least to make people aware of them by posting the link to their site.  I grew up very hungry, right here in America, and help came from many sources throughout my childhood. I distinctly remember one group of women from a church who came in and literally filled our cabinets with food.  Although the name of this organization is "God's Golden Acre" you don't have to be a Christian to care about these poor children. There are so many of us with so much love to give....this is just one of the many places you can choose from to share yours :-) 

I saw a special about the school on TV, and trust me, many of those girls are as poor as you can possibly get.  I saw them packing up to leave their homes, and many homes were nothing more than a dirt floor with a roof and no running water.  That's poor in my book.  She chose girls based on their leadership and academic abilities.

I think she is looking at the big picture and hoping to improve the future of Africa by putting girls through school that she hopes will someday rule Africa.  I believe she has built numerous schools in other countries too btw.  I do think Darfur needs attention, and the main place I have seen coverage of the dire situation there is actually on the Oprah show.  She is raising awareness of what is going on there, when most talk show hosts just worrying about their ratings.

She can't really save the whole world, and I'm sure she is used to negative attention, but I do think she is truly trying to help people in American and throughout the world.  At least she's making an effort.  Even if I don't like a celebrity, if I find out they do a lot of charity work I at least have to respect them for that.

Loud cheers greeted her inauguration, with US First Lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice among those at the ceremony.

Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf says her top challenge is to maintain peace, law and order after 14 years of civil war."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4615764.stm