Cyril's Gleans

Cyril's Favorite Movies as of 01/09/10

• A Chump at Oxford
  
• All the Deanna Durbin movies
  
• All the Ealing Alec Guiness Comedies
  
• Angels in the Outfield (1948)
  
• Beau Geste
  
• Big
  
• Blythe Spirit
  
• Brigadoon
  
• Casablanca
  
• Damn Yankees
  
• Damsel in Distress
  
• Father Goose
  
• Field of Dreams
  
• For Love of the Game
  
• Francis the Talking Mule series
  
• Full Metal Jacket
  
• Groundhog Day
  
• Gunga Din
  
• Happy Go Lovely
  
• Harvey
  
• Henry V (both the 1944 and the 1998)
  
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  
• High Plains Drifter
  
• Honkytonk Man
  
• It Happens Every Spring
  
• Journey Into Fear
  
• Kiss Me Kate
  
• Mary Poppins
  
• Matilda
  
• Meet Joe Black
  
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  
• Most Jean Arthur movies
  
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
  
• Music Man
  
• Nim’s Island
  
• No Time for Sergeants
  
• On the Beach (I like all of Fred Astaire’s movies)
  
• One Touch of Venus
  
• Romeo and Juliet (1968)
  
• Sahara (1943)
  
• Secondhand Lions
  
• Secret Agent Cody Banks
  
• Sergeant York
  
• Shane
  
• Singin’ in the Rain
  
• Star Wars (1977)
  
• The Bishop’s Wife (I like Cary Grant and David Niven)
  
• The Brass Bottle
  
• The Canterville Ghost (1944)
  
• The Great Impersonation
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
  
• The Last Mimsey
  
• The Last Starfighter
  
• The Major and the Minor
  
• The Natural
  
• The Reivers
  
• The Sky’s the Limit
  
• The Sound of Music
  
• The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
  
• The Thin Man Series
  
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
  
• The Thirty-nine Steps
  
• The Time of Your life (1948)
  
• the two Goodbye Mr. Chip movies
  
• The two Narnia movies
  
• the two Parent Trap movies
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  
• Theodora Goes Wild
  
• Three Days of the Condor
  
• To Hell and Back
  
• Topper
  
• Twelfth Night (1996)
  
• Unforgiven
  
• We’re No Angels

Add one more

Add one more to the list below - brings to 23:
Don Quixote (Paperback)
~ Miguel De Cervantes (Author), James H. Montgomery (Translator), David Quint (Introduction)

Updated Desert Island Book List - 01/08/10

Cyril’s Desert Island Books (22 I think)

- A Choice of Kipling's Verse Made By T. S. Eliot, with and Essay on Rudyard Kipling by T. S. Eliot (Mass Market Paperback - 1962)
- Anabasis: The March Up Country by Xenophon and H. G. Dakyns (Paperback - Jan 2, 2007)
- Burns; Selected Poems by Robert Burns (Paperback - Oct 9, 2007)
- Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Lesser Homerica (2 volumes in slipcase) by Homer; Chapman (tr); Allardyce Nicoll (ed and intro) (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1967)
- Collected Poems by Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite (Paperback - April 1, 2004)
- Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon (Hardcover - Sep 1980)
- De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation (Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature) by Lucretius and David R. Slavitt (Paperback - Aug 6, 2008)
- Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover (Oct 15, 2002) by George Orwell
- Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America) by Herman Melville (Hardcover - May 6, 1982)
- History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova and Willard R. Trask (Hardcover - Feb 6, 2007)
- Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation - Hardcover (Nov 15, 2009) by Ludovico Ariosto, David R. Slavitt, and Charles S. Ross
- Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America) by Richard Henry Dana Jr. and Thomas Philbrick (Hardcover - Oct 6, 2005)
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson (Paperback - Mar 25, 2008)
- Selected Poems by William Wordsworth and Stephen Gill (Paperback - Mar 29, 2005)
- Shakespeare's Sonnets (Yale Nota Bene) by William Shakespeare and Professor Stephen Booth (Paperback - Jul 11, 2000)
- The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Milton and John Leonard (Paperback - May 1, 1999)
- The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics) by Christopher Marlowe and Stephen Orgel (Paperback - May 29, 2007)
- The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society) by Henry Adams (Hardcover - Jan 15, 2007)
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Hardcover - Mar 26, 1963)
- The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Editions) by William Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Stephen Gill, and Jonathan Wordsworth (Paperback - Dec 17, 1979)
- The Top 500 Poems by William Harmon (Hardcover - Jan 15, 1992)
- The World of Mister Mulliner: The Mulliner Omnibus - Paperback (Jul 29, 1999) by P.G. Wodehouse

Cyril's Desert Island Books as of January 7, 2010

Cyril’s Desert Island Books (18 I think)

- The World of Mr Mulliner: The Mulliner Omnibus - Paperback (Jul 29, 1999) by P.G. Wodehouse
- Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover (Oct 15, 2002) by George Orwell
- History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova and Willard R. Trask (Hardcover - Feb 6, 2007)
- Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon (Hardcover - Sep 1980)
- The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society) by Henry Adams (Hardcover - Jan 15, 2007)
- Herman Melville : Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America) by Herman Melville (Hardcover - May 6, 1982)
- Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages (Library of America) by Richard Henry Dana Jr. and Thomas Philbrick (Hardcover - Oct 6, 2005)
- Shakespeare's Sonnets (Yale Nota Bene) by William Shakespeare and Professor Stephen Booth (Paperback - Jul 11, 2000)
- The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics) by Christopher Marlowe and Stephen Orgel (Paperback - May 29, 2007)
- The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Milton and John Leonard (Paperback - May 1, 1999)
- The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Editions) by William Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Stephen Gill, and Jonathan Wordsworth (Paperback - Dec 17, 1979)
- Selected Poems by William Wordsworth and Stephen Gill (Paperback - Mar 29, 2005)
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson (Paperback - Mar 25, 2008)
- Collected Poems by Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite (Paperback - April 1, 2004)
- The Top 500 Poems by William Harmon (Hardcover - Jan 15, 1992)
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse Made By T. S. Eliot, with and Essay on Rudyard Kipling by T. S. Eliot (Mass Market Paperback - 1962)
- Burns; Selected Poems by Robert Burns (Paperback - Oct 9, 2007)
- The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Hardcover - Mar 26, 1963)

Cyril Is Fond of Artichokes

Mid 1970s. Were they putting me on or not? As previously mentioned in these memoirs, I spent a lot of time in La Gaude starting in 1962 but particularly heavy during my stay in Zurich (1972-1977). At one meal in the La Gaude cafeteria during this period I was an observer of a fairly strange argument: an American IBMer and a French IBMer came close to a physical encounter over a discussion of artichokes (were the best artichokes from France or from California?). (I often chose to rile French IBMers by espousing either the premise that Swiss bread was better than French bread or that the Concorde was a complete waste of time and money (both of which premises I did, and do, believe) -- they were remarkably sensitive on both topics -- this was my introduction to their sensitivity in re artichokes.) Anyway, I was fascinated, and made this the highlight of my trip report. At the very first coffee break I attended on my return to the DCC, I also gave (I thought) a very humorous description of this encounter. However, at the conclusion of my story, not only did nobody laugh, but also the most heated discussion (in my experience) in the history of the DCC ensued -- I was so amazed that it is difficult for me to recall which side won, though I think it finally was California artichokes by a head.