Western Literature week 14

Western Literature week 14

Breakfast at Tiffany's 

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote's novella of the same name. Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, the film was initially released on October 5, 1961 by Paramount Pictures.

Video→ Breakfast at Tiffany's 

The pink pill

The Pink Panther is admitted to hospital after he falls on the street by slipping on his own banana peel. He finds that he has been given a liquid diet, while the man in the next bed is provided a banquet. So, the panther switches medical charts with his neighbor. The hefty food is transferred to him, but he is also rushed to abdominal surgery as per the chart he now has! Having survived the operation, the Pink Panther, in his recovery bed, is taunted by his laughing roommate as he is subjected to needles, to a harrowing blood pressure reading by an inattentive nurse, and to a fall that results in bandaging from head to toe. When he is finally released from the hospital, the panther trips on the hospital's steps and is readmitted with a broken leg!

Video→ The Pink Panther in "The Pink Pill"

When I was one and twenty

A. E. Housman (1859–1936).  A Shropshire Lad.  1896.

XIII. When I was one-and-twenty

WHEN I was one-and-twenty   I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas   But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies         5   But keep your fancy free.’ But I was one-and-twenty,   No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty   I heard him say again,         10 ‘The heart out of the bosom   Was never given in vain; ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty   And sold for endless rue.’ And I am two-and-twenty,         15   And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.