Ken Burns “Hemingway” on PBS tonight

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Tonight on our PBS channel (Channel 6 here) they're running the Ken Burns film on Ernest Hemingway at 8:00 Pacific Time if any one's interested. Looks like part one of maybe four tonight. We visited his house in Cuba in 2019 but the film crew here got to walk around and film inside. 1,000s of his books and manuscripts and all his stuff is still there as he left it when Castro confiscated everything, including his famous boat shown here with his dog's graves. And his upper office.



 
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He is one of my most favorite writers. Fantastic!! If I had TV I would watch it.
 
Did you know the below Hemingway Quote?

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The first two hour episode was excellent. Especially other writers reading their favorite paragraphs or sentences of his from his books. And I'm not even a fiction reader, but I might be now.
A little trivia about the movie "For Whom The Bell Tolls". We all thought Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman were in Spain when they were actually in "Sonora Pass" here in the Sierras.

Filming Location for Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman's 1943 Movie Classic - YouTube
 
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I'll have to catch a replay. I know Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney, who both flew bomber missions over Germany during WWII, did not care for Hemmingway, considering him something of a grandstanding hot dog.
 
We watched it last night and have plans to watch the next two episodes. I enjoyed last night, I had no idea of his early travels. I am more interested in his Cuba and Key West days.

My wife is a Hemingway fan, and she likes cats. When we were in Key West a couple of years ago she took the tour of his home just to see his cats. Now we have 2 polydactyl cats of our own. Even though I am not a cat person, they are pretty cool.

Whiskey and Gypsey.
 

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From what little of this documentary I've seen, it appears to be well done and is probably historically accurate. I have no interest in Ken Burns personal ideology even if he let some of it creep into the film. If that happened, I doubt it in any way altered the facts of Hemingway's life as presented.

Some go out of their way to point out "gun mistakes" in a film. I don't know if it gives them a sense of importance or what, but such a petty obsessiveness seems to ruin the film for them. In the world most of us live in, such a minor flaw in no way turns a good movie into a bad one.

Same thing with Burns' "Hemingway".
 
I watched the second one last night. This one focused a lot on his third marriage and seemed like endless tumult. It seems each woman had an expectation date until he moved on to a new one. He gets married, meets a younger woman infatuated with him, gets divorced, marries her, then repeats it when their infatuation wears off. He seemed to wear them out emotionally. I posted a picture of his boat today at his Havana house. There's great footage of Hemingway, his family, and friends on it.
 
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Watched it last night. Thought I saw a shot of a Lancaster when they were discussing WWI. Anyone else?
 
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