merlynsprankling
Name Merlyn Sprankling
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I'm From Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Yentl, Up Close and Personal, The Shawshank Redemption....
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Tim Robbins, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Morgan Freeman,Peter O'Toole, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and the late George Peppard
Director: Baz Luhrman, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Oliver Stone
Quote: What you give out is what you get back with interest...
About Me
A little less obsessive and a little more common sense...yet I still enjoy looking at a person with genial smile--a sign of genuine and warm welcome into my/their world.

I am happily married to my wonderful husband. We have a gorgeous and good-looking (you can tell how a proud mother I am) boy whom we both adore. Of course, I'm always looking for world-wide genuine friendship besides my own circle of friends. And please note, no hanky-panky conversation thank you.

Reading is my passion and always hungry for more--whether foods, books, travels and friends. Movies are my visual education and my alternative fiction and non-fiction experiment.

As regards friends--honest,loyal and trusworthy friends have always been splendid to me...and there must be a reason why...

When someone says: I Like You!
Perhaps it means: I Am Like You?

What was it about the people you liked
that made you like them?

Why is it that with certain people
You feel the natural trust and comfort?

Have you ever stopped to wonder
why this happens?

Maybe because we like people
who are like us...



My beautiful and fabulous family. I still believe that family and friends who eat, laugh,play,pray,talk and exchange pleasantries together stay forever...



I only hope you can read between the lines and really appreciate just how much we humans treasure good friends. It is certainly something to make us feel proud...




Does not wisdom keep calling out, and discernment keep giving forth its voice?



Merlyn's Recent Reviews

Sex and the City: The Movie Sex and the City: The Movie R 3.0 Stars
Carrie Bradshaw (SJP), author and a fashion icon- next-door, is back, her sardonic wit intact and perhaps sharper (my comparative description), as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single women in New York City.

Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristn Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) four years after the HBO series ended, still as friends, who continue to juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate.

Chris North reprises his role of Carrie's suave yet elusive Mr. Big; David Eigenberg as Miranda's down -to-earth husband Steve Brad; Evan Handler as Harry, Charlotte's dependable and loving husband; and John Lewis as Smith Jerrod, an actor, client and devoted lover of Samantha's.

Some people describe the film as a long episode of the series rather than of a movie. And some even think that the flick is not really empowering to women as these four women only want their own Romeos.

Candace Bushnell's book 'Sex and the City' attempts to represent a break with women's image as far as the critical tradition of time is concerned. The main rationale is to touch on the distinctionction between sex and gender. Sex is the biologically determined differene between men and women, while gender refers to the cultural differences, the product of social conditioning.

Overall, the flick is a blend of productive and re-productive creativity and imagination, telling a tale of 'no reservation' reckoning--in two parallel worlds--the he and the she. In short, the flick is an entrancing blend of imagination and perhaps scholarships, with a deft touch of humour.
Ben-Hur Ben-Hur G 5.0 Stars
If you want size, action, spectacle, thrills, good triumphing over evil, and romance, this one is for you and por moi.
The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments Unrated 5.0 Stars
Be inspired, persecuted and be saved.

Merlyn's Favorite Movies

Breakfast at Tiffany's 1. Breakfast at Tiffany's Unrated 4.5 Stars
romantic comedy--sweet and the taste lingers.
Yentl 2. Yentl PG 4.5 Stars
historical novel with the streisand added
Gone With the Wind 3. Gone With the Wind G 4.5 Stars
Clarck Gable and Vivien Leigh in their pre and post civil war romantic drama. The costume, the background, the actors, and the director himself,--everything in one and perfect place. Of course, it's my grandparents' era and I love it too.
The Last Emperor 4. The Last Emperor PG-13 4.5 Stars
Documentary and history rolled into one.
The Killing Fields 5. The Killing Fields R 4.5 Stars
Want to be a war correspondent in the future? Then see this one for a bit of orientation experience.
The Color Purple 6. The Color Purple PG-13 4.5 Stars
See the rise and rise of Oprah.

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