Friday, August 12, 2005
Darby and Joan
"Pop" into my inbox came this Word for the day from one of the word mailing groups - "Darby and Joan "
According to definition, it refers to a happily married old couple. The origin according to the mail had been from a poem titled
"The Joys of Love never forgot. A Song" written by Henry woodfall.
One verse in the poem reads “Old Darby, with Joan by his side, You’ve often regarded with wonder: He’s dropsical, she is sore-eyed, Yet they’re never happy asunder.”
Unlike movies like "Baghban" where the oldies romance is exaggerated to the point of irritation, this simple verse of the poem brings about the warmth of love in a much better and elegant fashion.
This reminded me of the movie "Notting Hill" .(One of my all time favorites) There is a scene where Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant jump into a park in the night and take a stroll. There they come across a bench with the following engraving:
"For June who loved this garden from Joseph who always sat beside her."
And Julia says "Some people do spend their whole lives together."
Another Darby and Joan there :-)
Btw for Notting Hill lovers like me, i found this nice website:
Memorable Quotes from Notting Hill
Hoping that i and sankha will become the Darby and Joan couple.
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Notting hill is one of my personal fav and the scene which u talking about (stroll in park at night after that get together at Hugh's sis place)...is quite romantic too. I saw that movie (lil bit) yesterday afternoon
Also one more scene that comes to my mind is from Spiderman - 1(Again saw it last night) when MJ and Peter are next to his gramma bed in hospital. MJ enuqires whether he knows Spiderman and then he tells wht he thinks abuot MJ..."When you look in MJ's eyes....n blah blah blah" That is so cooooool :)
Surely u will be one! :-)
Thanks Ayn ... :-)
And arz00n, in spiderman one of my favorites is that line on "With great power comes great responsibility" .. quite a nice one ... Notting hill, i have lots of favorite scenes .. the last bit when julia comes into the hugh's bookshop and says something like ".. i m just a girl" .. thats the topper !!!
I feel the best is...
And, one day not long from now, my looks will go, they will discover I can't act and I will become some sad middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while
Sad.. yet so true for all those in glamour world!! I vividly remember a pic of Saurav Ganguly... the pain in his eyes when he caught a glimpse of his own pic adorned with cow-dung cakes put up in the middle of the road... So mean of us! We all have our ups and downs... but once someone is on the stage, s/he cant afford to err!
Yes ayn, thats quite true .. we expect our celebrities to be prim n proper all the time. Quite a stringent expectation.
Sometimes i feel that looking at the deification they enjoy they must pay the price. There is no free lunch right.
Who is bothered if ur wrist or ankle gets hurt while doing work. But is that the same case with ash :-)
Well... its how we see things.. We deitify them... in turn they entertain us. Can you imagine a life without the World Cup or the Olympics or F1 or the hollywood and bollywood world???
Anyway when they r not performing well.. they r pulled down by the competition... Why to add up to their burden? :-)
Just my thoughts.. need not be universally true!
Ayn,
If there are no critics then there is no masterpiece :-)
In an old tamil movie there is a song which when transliterated goes like this
"The hand that beats is the hand that hugs and the hand that hugs is also the one that beats ..."
The common man gets to play both the roles
:-)
wut do u say !!!
The common man gets to play both the roles
True! But then criticism should be constructive! Something that the common man rarely exhibits!
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