Out our large glass patio door we are treated to a daily show of squirrels feasting and fattening on the dried berries hanging on our tree branches. Three or four of them treat themselves by balancing on the skinny branches,and just because they bounce up and down doesn't deter them one bit.
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This afternoon we treated ourselves to the last movie in this series of Osher Institute offerings,
The Scarlet and the Black. The previous two we had attended proved to be well worth the watching, and this one today was no different. Gregory Peck starred as a monsignor working in the Vatican and Christopher Plummer as a Nazi SS officer who is in charge of subjugating the Roman population in World War II. Gregory Peck's character leads a movement to safely hide escaped POWs and downed pilots. Plummer sets about trying to break up the underground but can't quite get it done, and goes so far as to order Peck's murder if ever they catch him off the Vatican grounds. He disguises himself in a variety of ways and eludes his hunters. In the end as the Allies approach Rome to rescue the population, Plummer's character confronts Peck's and asks him to use his network to carry his wife and children to safety. Peck will give him no satisfaction and the Nazi believes his family to be doomed. In the end the Nazi is informed his wife and children made it to the neutral Switzerland and no one knows how it happened except the Nazi knows: it was the priest. The Nazi was sentenced to life in prison; thereafter the priest visited him once a month, never missing, and ended up baptizing him into the Catholic faith.
This is a true story.
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This afternoon we treated ourselves to the last movie in this series of Osher Institute offerings,
The Scarlet and the Black. The previous two we had attended proved to be well worth the watching, and this one today was no different. Gregory Peck starred as a monsignor working in the Vatican and Christopher Plummer as a Nazi SS officer who is in charge of subjugating the Roman population in World War II. Gregory Peck's character leads a movement to safely hide escaped POWs and downed pilots. Plummer sets about trying to break up the underground but can't quite get it done, and goes so far as to order Peck's murder if ever they catch him off the Vatican grounds. He disguises himself in a variety of ways and eludes his hunters. In the end as the Allies approach Rome to rescue the population, Plummer's character confronts Peck's and asks him to use his network to carry his wife and children to safety. Peck will give him no satisfaction and the Nazi believes his family to be doomed. In the end the Nazi is informed his wife and children made it to the neutral Switzerland and no one knows how it happened except the Nazi knows: it was the priest. The Nazi was sentenced to life in prison; thereafter the priest visited him once a month, never missing, and ended up baptizing him into the Catholic faith.
This is a true story.
