That's right Mr Keats! Alfred Hitchcock loved this keatsian line. He had Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier give it a postscript in the movie 'Rebecca'. If my memory serves me - and I must watch the film again soon- it went along the lines:
(joan's now deceased father had been a painter who had only ever painted one subject - a tree that he thought was beautiful)
Joan (to laurence):'my father had the idea that once one found something perfectly beautiful that one should stick with it...do think that's terribly silly?
Laurence: Not at all, I'm a firm believer in that myself.
(of course Laurence had found the real mrs Dewinter, and the narrative was thus established.
O & H also played lip service in south pacific - some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger...
But not as deftly in my view.
The lovely couple that cared for your car for so many years - and I only met them once but they created a profound impression- were (someone please correct my memory of the names) Tom and Eileen Eyears(?). The couple had just completed a long drive to Cit in jindabyne. 'she went beautifully...pinged a bit...' That would have been 2000 or 2001 I think.
They loved that car for many years and I was thrilled to see another 62. It was also the best drive of my life because I drove in tandem through the high country with non other than ferdi saliba and the black knight- another '62 and the ultimate bench-mark.
So you've found her! We're lucky, aren't we...
Tim
(joan's now deceased father had been a painter who had only ever painted one subject - a tree that he thought was beautiful)
Joan (to laurence):'my father had the idea that once one found something perfectly beautiful that one should stick with it...do think that's terribly silly?
Laurence: Not at all, I'm a firm believer in that myself.
(of course Laurence had found the real mrs Dewinter, and the narrative was thus established.
O & H also played lip service in south pacific - some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger...
But not as deftly in my view.
The lovely couple that cared for your car for so many years - and I only met them once but they created a profound impression- were (someone please correct my memory of the names) Tom and Eileen Eyears(?). The couple had just completed a long drive to Cit in jindabyne. 'she went beautifully...pinged a bit...' That would have been 2000 or 2001 I think.
They loved that car for many years and I was thrilled to see another 62. It was also the best drive of my life because I drove in tandem through the high country with non other than ferdi saliba and the black knight- another '62 and the ultimate bench-mark.
So you've found her! We're lucky, aren't we...
Tim
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