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  • Top 100 Movie Review: No. 041 – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

    May 16, 2020

    Ranked 041 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

    Cast: Vivien Leigh (Blanche), Marlon Brando (Stanley), Kim Hunter (Stella), Karl Malden (Mitch), Rudy Bond (Steve)
    Director:  Elia Kazan
    My rating: 8.5 / 10

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  • Top 100 Movie Review: No. 042 – The Philadelphia Story (1940)

    May 16, 2020

    Ranked 042 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

    Cast: Cary Grant (C. K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), James Stewart (Mike Connor), John Howard (George Kittredge), Ruth Hussey (Liz Imbrie)
    Director:  George Cukor
    My rating: 5.5 / 10

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  • Destination: Belgium

    May 15, 2020

    Established: Treaty of Verdun – August 843,  Republic – 22 September 1792
    Population: 11,515,793 (2019)
    Religion: 62.8%% Christianity, 29.3% No religion, 6.8% Islam
    Language: Dutch, French, German
    Capital: Brussels
    Order of Visit: Eleventh
    First Visit: 04 May 2006
    Last Visit: 23 June 2009
    Duration: 9 Days
    Highlights: Atomium, Belgium waffles, Bruges Market Square, Chocó-Story Museum, Bruges Canal, Our Lady’s Cathedral, Grote Market, Steen Castle, Antwerp Diamond Museum, Fort Breendonk, Rubens House
    Cities: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels
    Belgium Journal Entry

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  • Destination: France 

    May 13, 2020

    Established: Treaty of Verdun – August 843, Republic – 22 September 1792
    Population: 67,076,000 (2020 Estimate)
    Religion: 57.5% Roman Catholic, 35% Non-religious, 3.5% other faiths, 3% Protestant
    Language: French
    Capital: Paris
    Order of Visit: Tenth
    First Visit: 24 April 2006
    Last Visit: 8 July 2006
    Duration: 18 Days
    Highlights: Chateau De Versailles, Climbing the Eiffel Tower, Disneyland Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral, Moulin Rouge, The Louvre, Arc de Triumph, Auguste Rodin’s House, Sacre Coeur Monument, Night bike ride along the Seine River, Promenade des Anglais, Beaches at Cannes, The Palace of the Popes (Avignon) 
    Cities: Avignon, Cannes, Paris, Nice
    Frances Journal Entry

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  • Top 100 Movie Review: No. 043 – To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    May 11, 2020

    Ranked 043 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during May 2020.

    Cast: Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), Mary Badham (Scout Finch), Phillip Alford (Jem Finch), John Megna (Charles Baker “Dill” Harris), Frank Overton (Sheriff Heck Tate), Rosemary Murphy (Miss Maudie Atkinson), Ruth White (Mrs Dubose), Brock Peters (Tom Robinson), Estelle Evans (Calpurnia), Paul Fix (Judge John Taylor), Collin Wilcox (Mayella Ewell), James Anderson (Robert E. Lee “Bob” Ewell), Robert Duvall (Arthur “Boo” Radley)
    Director:  Robert Mulligan
    My rating: 9.5 / 10

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