Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: looking for a poet

About a year ago I watched the movie "The big Kahuna" on tv. It wasn't a
masterpiece, actually, but, during the credits, at the end of the film, a
voice said a poem that I enjoyed very much, full of sense, passion and wit.
Does anybody remember it ? I would like to know who is the poet , the tittle
and, if it's possible, the publisher.
If you haven't seen the movie, the liric lies in a sort of  list of
(ironical) directions aimed to a  son or a pupil, like: **...Live in New
York city once / but leave it before it makes you hard. / Live in nothern
California once / but leave it before it makes you soft. / TRAVEL !**; or
**....Remember the compliments you receive / forget the insults. / If you
succeed in doing this, / tell me how./ Keep all your old love letters, /
throw away the bank statements. / STRETCH !**, or **Dont fell guilty if you
don't know what you want to do in your life: / the most interesting people I
know didn't know at twenty-two what they wanted to do in their lives; / some
of the most interesting forty people I  know still don't. GET PLENTY OF
CALCIUM !**, and so on.
I rely on you. Thanks.
Elleti

 Does anybody remember it ? 
Ooh, that's a tough one :-)
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~jennim
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Mary

 
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~jennim
That's great! Thanks for finding it. I was fortunate enough to see Baz
Luhrman's production of "La Bohème" a while back... it, too, was worth
remembering.
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 > About a year ago I watched the movie "The big Kahuna" [cut].
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 humble pie, now: that guy is a genius.
I haven't seen it, but I read somewhere even Alec Guinness appreciated it.
I don't suppose I will. Perhaps I'll give it a try, someday...
Bye, FB
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 **Romeo + Juliet**  was able to write such a thing ! 
Not to take anything away from the director, but that thing has been
around, in and out, for years  
under various names, including Kurt Vonnegut jr, who took the time to
publicly deny the alleged 
autorship.
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 autorship.
Ha anche negato di aver avuto alcun intento umoristico verso il pubblico
italiano nell'aver intitolato un suo libro "Cat's Cradle"?
Ciao, FB
-- 
"What meaning of this, Mitter Twain?". "I will tell you, Mr Wang, if you
can tell me why a man who possesses one of the most brilliant minds of this
century can't say his prepositions or articles".
(Murder by Death)

 italiano nell'aver intitolato un suo libro "Cat's Cradle"?
Perché? Ha qualche significato strano in italiano?
-- 
Mary

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Sembra un po' "cazzo credi?" pronunciato da un pugliese, o almeno da Lino
Banfi.
Ciao, FB
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 Banfi.
Ah... Non ci sarei mai arrivata.
-- 
Mary

I was looking for a poet... seems like I've found it !
"Mary Cassidy" <ma...@invalid.invalid> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:4163E908...@invalid.invalid...
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italiano nell'aver intitolato un suo libro "Cat's Cradle"?
Il negare di aver scritto qualcosa dev'essere ormai un'abitudine per
KV, visto che lo aveva dovuto fare anche per "Venus On the Half Shell"
dopo che P.J. Farmer l'aveva pubblicato firmandolo Kilgore Trout :-)
http://www.pjfarmer.com/trout.htm
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/vonnegutia/trout/index.html
'bye

 almeno da Lino Banfi.
Solo per quei pochi che pronunciano l'inglese all'inglese 
(chez credl), la maggior parte direbbe catts cràd'le (*)
In italiano poi è stato tradotto come "Ghiaccio nove"
(l'ho perfino letto anni fa, ma non ne ricordo più niente)
(*) se ricordate il film "Americano rosso" di D'Alatri, mi 
pare, con Fabrizio Bentivoglio che al bar  dice una battuta 
del genere sulla corretta pronuncia di "Clark Gable"
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oggi no, domani sì

I was just looking for something else on the Snopes Urban Legends site,
and found that they attribute the Sunscreen poem to someone entirely
different: Chicago Tribune writer Mary Schmich.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/vonnegut.htm
-- 
Mary