• "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Mon Sep 6 21:50:36 2021
    On Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:50:39 PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
    Do you think monkeys attacking men, women and children will make a good
    movie to watch?
    The monkeys killed a mayor in India and sneaking in people's homes
    and slaping women..and stealing.
    "Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing
    mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
    "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile
    phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"
    Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly." http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7985.html http://www.truveo.com/Monkey-menace-back-in-Delhi-25-people-injured/id/2100344431
    http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=category%3A%22News%22+monkey+menace&uqs=
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071117080843.ql8szd19&show_article=1

    I don't think I would mind watching a movie about monkies attacking a
    town and killing people. I like "The Birds" one.

    You can just take Alfred Hitchcock and replace the birds with monkeys!
    You can just open up Microsoft Word or Notepad and replace all the words
    with birds to monkeys.

    Cathy Brenner: Mitch, can I bring the monkeys in here?
    Lydia Brenner: No!
    Cathy Brenner: But Mom, they're in a cage.
    Lydia Brenner: They're monkeys, aren't they?

    Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose father is very wealthy and owns a large newspaper. As the film opens,
    Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah monkeys for her aunt.
    While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)
    who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends to sell him a pair
    of lovemonkeys, until Mitch reveals that he knew her name all along;
    Mitch is a lawyer who recognizes Melanie from a court appearance where
    one of her practical jokes backfired and resulted in a damaged window. Melanie is incensed and uses Mitch's license plate number to find out
    his identity and address. She then buys Mitch a pair of lovemonkeys and attempts to deliver them to his apartment, but when she tries to leave
    the monkeys in his hallway, a neighbor tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega
    Bay, and won't return until Monday.
    Not wanting to let her joke go, Melanie decides to journey to Bodega
    Bay; she drives up the coast and questions a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. She finds out that on the weekends,
    Mitch lives with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his young sister
    Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). The shopkeeper knows it is Cathy's
    birthday, but cannot remember the girl's name. Melanie gets the idea to
    gift the monkeys to Cathy in order to further embarass Mitch; to confirm
    the girl's name, the shopkeeper directs Melanie to the local school
    teacher, Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). Annie is a lovely woman
    around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie's intentions are to flirt with Mitch.
    Melanie returns to town and takes a boat across the bay to the private
    dock of the Brenner house, sneaking inside and leaving the monkeys cage
    in the living room with a note identifying them as a gift for Cathy.
    When she sneaks back down to her boat, Mitch spots her making her escape
    and drives around the bay to intercept her at the dock. Before Melanie reaches the dock, a monkey swoops down and gashes her forehead,
    seemingly in a deliberate attack.
    Mitch takes Melanie to a local diner to tend to her wound. While they
    are there, Lydia arrives and Mitch introduces her to Melanie; Lydia's response to Melanie is icy, especially when Mitch invites her to the
    house for dinner that night. Melanie, who was not planning on staying
    for the night, returns to Annie's and rents a room in her house for the evening. Annie welcomes Melanie, but is also jealous of the interest
    Melanie has in Mitch.
    At dinner, Melanie meets Cathy, who is ecstatic about the lovemonkeys.
    Lydia is concerned about the monkeys she keeps on their land; the
    monkeys will not eat, and a neighbor's monkeys are behaving the same
    way. After dinner, Mitch walks Melanie back to her car and they discuss Melanie's past. Mitch teases her about a sensational story that was
    reported in the social pages about her, and Melanie becomes angry. He
    exposes the fact that she lied to him about being old friends with
    Annie, and Melanie drives off in a huff. Mitch notices a flock of
    monkeys lurking menacingly in the dark on a telephone wire near the
    house.
    Back at Annie's, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that
    she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia
    spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to
    be near Mitch. Mitch calls to apologize and invites Melanie to Cathy's birthday party the next day. Melanie agrees to come and hangs up. She
    and Annie hear a thump at the front door and find a dead monkeys on the porch, wondering how it could have lost its way in the dark when the
    moon is so bright.
    The next day at the birthday party, Melanie reveals to Mitch that she is estranged from her mother. She seems envious that Lydia is so close with Mitch, when her own mother abandoned the family. Melanie does not even
    know her whereabouts. Suddenly, as the children are playing a game,
    seagulls attack the birthday party, landing on the children and pecking
    at them. The adults get the children to safety without much incident,
    but Mitch asks Melanie to wait until after dinner to leave for San
    Francisco. As they sit in the living room after eating, a flock of
    swifts invades the home, getting in through the chimney. Mitch gets the monkeys out of the house, but everyone is shaken, especially Lydia, who
    seems more fragile than ever. Melanie decides to stay the night.
    The next morning, Lydia takes Cathy to school and then drops by her neighbor's farm to discuss the matter of the monkeys. She finds him dead
    in his house, his body bloodied and his eyes missing. The windows are shattered and the room is littered with dead monkeys. Lydia rushes back
    home in shock. While Mitch and the authorities investigate her report of
    the dead body, Lydia retires to her bed and has a conversation with
    Melanie. The two of them seem to reach an understanding, and Lydia opens
    up to her, revealing that after the death of her husband, her greatest
    fear is that Mitch will abandon her. Melanie offers to bring Cathy home
    from school when Lydia worries about the possibility of another monkeys attack.
    At the school, Annie is leading the children in a song while Melanie
    waits outside, not wanting to interrupt them. A large flock of monkeys gathers on the playground until the place is swarming with menacing
    black monkeys. Melanie warns Annie, and the two of them lead the
    children out of the school, but the monkeys hear their feet on the
    pavement and attack. Melanie, Cathy, and Cathy's friend become separated
    from the others, and Melanie ushers the children into a nearby car, when
    the monkeys attack suddenly subsides.
    At the town diner, Melanie calls her father to report the phenomenon of
    the monkeys attacks. Her story attracts a lot of attention, but most
    people are skeptical, including Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffie), an elderly
    woman who is an expert in ornithology. She dismisses Melanie's account
    as impossible, and contends that monkeys could never launch a massed
    attack on humanity because they lack the intelligence. Mitch joins them
    and backs up Melanie's story, but they are met with more skepticism
    until another monkeys attack occurs, this one even greater in scale than
    the previous ones. This time, all types of monkeys are involved, and
    they create havoc resulting in a large explosion at Bodega Bay's gas
    station. After it subsides, the patrons of the diner are terrified, and
    one woman becomes hysterical, accusing Melanie of being the cause of the attacks.
    Melanie and Mitch go to fetch Cathy at Annie's house, only to find Annie
    dead in the front yard, a victim of the monkeys attack. Cathy is safe
    inside the house, and she tells them that Annie pushed her inside when
    the monkeys came, unable to save herself. Back at the Brenner house,
    Mitch works at barricading the windows and doors in anticipation of
    another monkeys attack. Mitch, Cathy, Melanie and Lydia all spend hours inside the house until the sounds of a massive assault on the house
    reach them. Mitch is barely able to keep the monkeys from breaking
    through the barricades, large monkeys pecking through the wooden reinforcements, and the power to the house is cut. Finally the attack subsides, and the four of them drop off to sleep.
    Later, Melanie is awakened by a sound from upstairs. She takes a
    flashlight and is drawn to an upstairs bedroom. When she opens the door,
    she is confronted by monkeys that have torn a massive hole in the
    ceiling and have roosted in the room. They trap Melanie and attack her, pecking at her flesh and clothes. Melanie attempts to fight them off but weakens. The sound draws the others and they pull her out of the room,
    but she is badly wounded and in shock. Mitch and Lydia bandage Melanie
    as best they can, and resolve to escape in order to get her medical attention. Mitch goes outside to prepare the car and opens the door to
    find the house completely surrounded by rustling monkeys, as far as the
    eye can see. True to the unpredictable nature of the phenomenon, the
    monkeys allow them to escape in the car and they drive off among the sea
    of monkeys.

    https://screenrant.com/the-birds-things-that-still-hold-up-today/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Sat Nov 13 14:14:03 2021
    On Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:50:39 PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
    Do you think monkeys attacking men, women and children will make a good
    movie to watch?
    The monkeys killed a mayor in India and sneaking in people's homes
    and slaping women..and stealing.
    "Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing
    mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
    "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile
    phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"
    Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly." http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7985.html http://www.truveo.com/Monkey-menace-back-in-Delhi-25-people-injured/id/2100344431
    http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=category%3A%22News%22+monkey+menace&uqs=
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071117080843.ql8szd19&show_article=1

    I don't think I would mind watching a movie about monkies attacking a
    town and killing people. I like "The Birds" one.

    You can just take Alfred Hitchcock and replace the birds with monkeys!
    You can just open up Microsoft Word or Notepad and replace all the words
    with birds to monkeys.

    Cathy Brenner: Mitch, can I bring the monkeys in here?
    Lydia Brenner: No!
    Cathy Brenner: But Mom, they're in a cage.
    Lydia Brenner: They're monkeys, aren't they?

    Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose father is very wealthy and owns a large newspaper. As the film opens,
    Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah monkeys for her aunt.
    While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)
    who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends to sell him a pair
    of lovemonkeys, until Mitch reveals that he knew her name all along;
    Mitch is a lawyer who recognizes Melanie from a court appearance where
    one of her practical jokes backfired and resulted in a damaged window. Melanie is incensed and uses Mitch's license plate number to find out
    his identity and address. She then buys Mitch a pair of lovemonkeys and attempts to deliver them to his apartment, but when she tries to leave
    the monkeys in his hallway, a neighbor tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega
    Bay, and won't return until Monday.
    Not wanting to let her joke go, Melanie decides to journey to Bodega
    Bay; she drives up the coast and questions a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. She finds out that on the weekends,
    Mitch lives with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his young sister
    Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). The shopkeeper knows it is Cathy's
    birthday, but cannot remember the girl's name. Melanie gets the idea to
    gift the monkeys to Cathy in order to further embarass Mitch; to confirm
    the girl's name, the shopkeeper directs Melanie to the local school
    teacher, Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). Annie is a lovely woman
    around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie's intentions are to flirt with Mitch.
    Melanie returns to town and takes a boat across the bay to the private
    dock of the Brenner house, sneaking inside and leaving the monkeys cage
    in the living room with a note identifying them as a gift for Cathy.
    When she sneaks back down to her boat, Mitch spots her making her escape
    and drives around the bay to intercept her at the dock. Before Melanie reaches the dock, a monkey swoops down and gashes her forehead,
    seemingly in a deliberate attack.
    Mitch takes Melanie to a local diner to tend to her wound. While they
    are there, Lydia arrives and Mitch introduces her to Melanie; Lydia's response to Melanie is icy, especially when Mitch invites her to the
    house for dinner that night. Melanie, who was not planning on staying
    for the night, returns to Annie's and rents a room in her house for the evening. Annie welcomes Melanie, but is also jealous of the interest
    Melanie has in Mitch.
    At dinner, Melanie meets Cathy, who is ecstatic about the lovemonkeys.
    Lydia is concerned about the monkeys she keeps on their land; the
    monkeys will not eat, and a neighbor's monkeys are behaving the same
    way. After dinner, Mitch walks Melanie back to her car and they discuss Melanie's past. Mitch teases her about a sensational story that was
    reported in the social pages about her, and Melanie becomes angry. He
    exposes the fact that she lied to him about being old friends with
    Annie, and Melanie drives off in a huff. Mitch notices a flock of
    monkeys lurking menacingly in the dark on a telephone wire near the
    house.
    Back at Annie's, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that
    she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia
    spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to
    be near Mitch. Mitch calls to apologize and invites Melanie to Cathy's birthday party the next day. Melanie agrees to come and hangs up. She
    and Annie hear a thump at the front door and find a dead monkeys on the porch, wondering how it could have lost its way in the dark when the
    moon is so bright.
    The next day at the birthday party, Melanie reveals to Mitch that she is estranged from her mother. She seems envious that Lydia is so close with Mitch, when her own mother abandoned the family. Melanie does not even
    know her whereabouts. Suddenly, as the children are playing a game,
    seagulls attack the birthday party, landing on the children and pecking
    at them. The adults get the children to safety without much incident,
    but Mitch asks Melanie to wait until after dinner to leave for San
    Francisco. As they sit in the living room after eating, a flock of
    swifts invades the home, getting in through the chimney. Mitch gets the monkeys out of the house, but everyone is shaken, especially Lydia, who
    seems more fragile than ever. Melanie decides to stay the night.
    The next morning, Lydia takes Cathy to school and then drops by her neighbor's farm to discuss the matter of the monkeys. She finds him dead
    in his house, his body bloodied and his eyes missing. The windows are shattered and the room is littered with dead monkeys. Lydia rushes back
    home in shock. While Mitch and the authorities investigate her report of
    the dead body, Lydia retires to her bed and has a conversation with
    Melanie. The two of them seem to reach an understanding, and Lydia opens
    up to her, revealing that after the death of her husband, her greatest
    fear is that Mitch will abandon her. Melanie offers to bring Cathy home
    from school when Lydia worries about the possibility of another monkeys attack.
    At the school, Annie is leading the children in a song while Melanie
    waits outside, not wanting to interrupt them. A large flock of monkeys gathers on the playground until the place is swarming with menacing
    black monkeys. Melanie warns Annie, and the two of them lead the
    children out of the school, but the monkeys hear their feet on the
    pavement and attack. Melanie, Cathy, and Cathy's friend become separated
    from the others, and Melanie ushers the children into a nearby car, when
    the monkeys attack suddenly subsides.
    At the town diner, Melanie calls her father to report the phenomenon of
    the monkeys attacks. Her story attracts a lot of attention, but most
    people are skeptical, including Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffie), an elderly
    woman who is an expert in ornithology. She dismisses Melanie's account
    as impossible, and contends that monkeys could never launch a massed
    attack on humanity because they lack the intelligence. Mitch joins them
    and backs up Melanie's story, but they are met with more skepticism
    until another monkeys attack occurs, this one even greater in scale than
    the previous ones. This time, all types of monkeys are involved, and
    they create havoc resulting in a large explosion at Bodega Bay's gas
    station. After it subsides, the patrons of the diner are terrified, and
    one woman becomes hysterical, accusing Melanie of being the cause of the attacks.
    Melanie and Mitch go to fetch Cathy at Annie's house, only to find Annie
    dead in the front yard, a victim of the monkeys attack. Cathy is safe
    inside the house, and she tells them that Annie pushed her inside when
    the monkeys came, unable to save herself. Back at the Brenner house,
    Mitch works at barricading the windows and doors in anticipation of
    another monkeys attack. Mitch, Cathy, Melanie and Lydia all spend hours inside the house until the sounds of a massive assault on the house
    reach them. Mitch is barely able to keep the monkeys from breaking
    through the barricades, large monkeys pecking through the wooden reinforcements, and the power to the house is cut. Finally the attack subsides, and the four of them drop off to sleep.
    Later, Melanie is awakened by a sound from upstairs. She takes a
    flashlight and is drawn to an upstairs bedroom. When she opens the door,
    she is confronted by monkeys that have torn a massive hole in the
    ceiling and have roosted in the room. They trap Melanie and attack her, pecking at her flesh and clothes. Melanie attempts to fight them off but weakens. The sound draws the others and they pull her out of the room,
    but she is badly wounded and in shock. Mitch and Lydia bandage Melanie
    as best they can, and resolve to escape in order to get her medical attention. Mitch goes outside to prepare the car and opens the door to
    find the house completely surrounded by rustling monkeys, as far as the
    eye can see. True to the unpredictable nature of the phenomenon, the
    monkeys allow them to escape in the car and they drive off among the sea
    of monkeys.

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dakota-johnson-says-alfred-hitchcock-021639868.html

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Fri Nov 19 09:29:52 2021
    On Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 1:50:39 PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
    Do you think monkeys attacking men, women and children will make a good
    movie to watch?
    The monkeys killed a mayor in India and sneaking in people's homes
    and slaping women..and stealing.
    "Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing
    mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
    "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile
    phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"
    Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly." http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7985.html http://www.truveo.com/Monkey-menace-back-in-Delhi-25-people-injured/id/2100344431
    http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=category%3A%22News%22+monkey+menace&uqs=
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071117080843.ql8szd19&show_article=1

    I don't think I would mind watching a movie about monkies attacking a
    town and killing people. I like "The Birds" one.

    You can just take Alfred Hitchcock and replace the birds with monkeys!
    You can just open up Microsoft Word or Notepad and replace all the words
    with birds to monkeys.

    Cathy Brenner: Mitch, can I bring the monkeys in here?
    Lydia Brenner: No!
    Cathy Brenner: But Mom, they're in a cage.
    Lydia Brenner: They're monkeys, aren't they?

    Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose father is very wealthy and owns a large newspaper. As the film opens,
    Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah monkeys for her aunt.
    While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)
    who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends to sell him a pair
    of lovemonkeys, until Mitch reveals that he knew her name all along;
    Mitch is a lawyer who recognizes Melanie from a court appearance where
    one of her practical jokes backfired and resulted in a damaged window. Melanie is incensed and uses Mitch's license plate number to find out
    his identity and address. She then buys Mitch a pair of lovemonkeys and attempts to deliver them to his apartment, but when she tries to leave
    the monkeys in his hallway, a neighbor tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega
    Bay, and won't return until Monday.
    Not wanting to let her joke go, Melanie decides to journey to Bodega
    Bay; she drives up the coast and questions a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. She finds out that on the weekends,
    Mitch lives with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his young sister
    Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). The shopkeeper knows it is Cathy's
    birthday, but cannot remember the girl's name. Melanie gets the idea to
    gift the monkeys to Cathy in order to further embarass Mitch; to confirm
    the girl's name, the shopkeeper directs Melanie to the local school
    teacher, Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). Annie is a lovely woman
    around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie's intentions are to flirt with Mitch.
    Melanie returns to town and takes a boat across the bay to the private
    dock of the Brenner house, sneaking inside and leaving the monkeys cage
    in the living room with a note identifying them as a gift for Cathy.
    When she sneaks back down to her boat, Mitch spots her making her escape
    and drives around the bay to intercept her at the dock. Before Melanie reaches the dock, a monkey swoops down and gashes her forehead,
    seemingly in a deliberate attack.
    Mitch takes Melanie to a local diner to tend to her wound. While they
    are there, Lydia arrives and Mitch introduces her to Melanie; Lydia's response to Melanie is icy, especially when Mitch invites her to the
    house for dinner that night. Melanie, who was not planning on staying
    for the night, returns to Annie's and rents a room in her house for the evening. Annie welcomes Melanie, but is also jealous of the interest
    Melanie has in Mitch.
    At dinner, Melanie meets Cathy, who is ecstatic about the lovemonkeys.
    Lydia is concerned about the monkeys she keeps on their land; the
    monkeys will not eat, and a neighbor's monkeys are behaving the same
    way. After dinner, Mitch walks Melanie back to her car and they discuss Melanie's past. Mitch teases her about a sensational story that was
    reported in the social pages about her, and Melanie becomes angry. He
    exposes the fact that she lied to him about being old friends with
    Annie, and Melanie drives off in a huff. Mitch notices a flock of
    monkeys lurking menacingly in the dark on a telephone wire near the
    house.
    Back at Annie's, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that
    she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia
    spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to
    be near Mitch. Mitch calls to apologize and invites Melanie to Cathy's birthday party the next day. Melanie agrees to come and hangs up. She
    and Annie hear a thump at the front door and find a dead monkeys on the porch, wondering how it could have lost its way in the dark when the
    moon is so bright.
    The next day at the birthday party, Melanie reveals to Mitch that she is estranged from her mother. She seems envious that Lydia is so close with Mitch, when her own mother abandoned the family. Melanie does not even
    know her whereabouts. Suddenly, as the children are playing a game,
    seagulls attack the birthday party, landing on the children and pecking
    at them. The adults get the children to safety without much incident,
    but Mitch asks Melanie to wait until after dinner to leave for San
    Francisco. As they sit in the living room after eating, a flock of
    swifts invades the home, getting in through the chimney. Mitch gets the monkeys out of the house, but everyone is shaken, especially Lydia, who
    seems more fragile than ever. Melanie decides to stay the night.
    The next morning, Lydia takes Cathy to school and then drops by her neighbor's farm to discuss the matter of the monkeys. She finds him dead
    in his house, his body bloodied and his eyes missing. The windows are shattered and the room is littered with dead monkeys. Lydia rushes back
    home in shock. While Mitch and the authorities investigate her report of
    the dead body, Lydia retires to her bed and has a conversation with
    Melanie. The two of them seem to reach an understanding, and Lydia opens
    up to her, revealing that after the death of her husband, her greatest
    fear is that Mitch will abandon her. Melanie offers to bring Cathy home
    from school when Lydia worries about the possibility of another monkeys attack.
    At the school, Annie is leading the children in a song while Melanie
    waits outside, not wanting to interrupt them. A large flock of monkeys gathers on the playground until the place is swarming with menacing
    black monkeys. Melanie warns Annie, and the two of them lead the
    children out of the school, but the monkeys hear their feet on the
    pavement and attack. Melanie, Cathy, and Cathy's friend become separated
    from the others, and Melanie ushers the children into a nearby car, when
    the monkeys attack suddenly subsides.
    At the town diner, Melanie calls her father to report the phenomenon of
    the monkeys attacks. Her story attracts a lot of attention, but most
    people are skeptical, including Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffie), an elderly
    woman who is an expert in ornithology. She dismisses Melanie's account
    as impossible, and contends that monkeys could never launch a massed
    attack on humanity because they lack the intelligence. Mitch joins them
    and backs up Melanie's story, but they are met with more skepticism
    until another monkeys attack occurs, this one even greater in scale than
    the previous ones. This time, all types of monkeys are involved, and
    they create havoc resulting in a large explosion at Bodega Bay's gas
    station. After it subsides, the patrons of the diner are terrified, and
    one woman becomes hysterical, accusing Melanie of being the cause of the attacks.
    Melanie and Mitch go to fetch Cathy at Annie's house, only to find Annie
    dead in the front yard, a victim of the monkeys attack. Cathy is safe
    inside the house, and she tells them that Annie pushed her inside when
    the monkeys came, unable to save herself. Back at the Brenner house,
    Mitch works at barricading the windows and doors in anticipation of
    another monkeys attack. Mitch, Cathy, Melanie and Lydia all spend hours inside the house until the sounds of a massive assault on the house
    reach them. Mitch is barely able to keep the monkeys from breaking
    through the barricades, large monkeys pecking through the wooden reinforcements, and the power to the house is cut. Finally the attack subsides, and the four of them drop off to sleep.
    Later, Melanie is awakened by a sound from upstairs. She takes a
    flashlight and is drawn to an upstairs bedroom. When she opens the door,
    she is confronted by monkeys that have torn a massive hole in the
    ceiling and have roosted in the room. They trap Melanie and attack her, pecking at her flesh and clothes. Melanie attempts to fight them off but weakens. The sound draws the others and they pull her out of the room,
    but she is badly wounded and in shock. Mitch and Lydia bandage Melanie
    as best they can, and resolve to escape in order to get her medical attention. Mitch goes outside to prepare the car and opens the door to
    find the house completely surrounded by rustling monkeys, as far as the
    eye can see. True to the unpredictable nature of the phenomenon, the
    monkeys allow them to escape in the car and they drive off among the sea
    of monkeys.

    https://www.cbr.com/hitchcock-bird-madness-explained/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Mon Jan 17 23:24:37 2022
    On Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 11:50:39 AM UTC-10, The Starmaker wrote:
    Do you think monkeys attacking men, women and children will make a good
    movie to watch?
    The monkeys killed a mayor in India and sneaking in people's homes
    and slaping women..and stealing.
    "Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing
    mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
    "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile
    phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"
    Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly." http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7985.html http://www.truveo.com/Monkey-menace-back-in-Delhi-25-people-injured/id/2100344431
    http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=category%3A%22News%22+monkey+menace&uqs=
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071117080843.ql8szd19&show_article=1

    I don't think I would mind watching a movie about monkies attacking a
    town and killing people. I like "The Birds" one.

    You can just take Alfred Hitchcock and replace the birds with monkeys!
    You can just open up Microsoft Word or Notepad and replace all the words
    with birds to monkeys.

    Cathy Brenner: Mitch, can I bring the monkeys in here?
    Lydia Brenner: No!
    Cathy Brenner: But Mom, they're in a cage.
    Lydia Brenner: They're monkeys, aren't they?

    Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose father is very wealthy and owns a large newspaper. As the film opens,
    Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah monkeys for her aunt.
    While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)
    who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends to sell him a pair
    of lovemonkeys, until Mitch reveals that he knew her name all along;
    Mitch is a lawyer who recognizes Melanie from a court appearance where
    one of her practical jokes backfired and resulted in a damaged window. Melanie is incensed and uses Mitch's license plate number to find out
    his identity and address. She then buys Mitch a pair of lovemonkeys and attempts to deliver them to his apartment, but when she tries to leave
    the monkeys in his hallway, a neighbor tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega
    Bay, and won't return until Monday.
    Not wanting to let her joke go, Melanie decides to journey to Bodega
    Bay; she drives up the coast and questions a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. She finds out that on the weekends,
    Mitch lives with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his young sister
    Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). The shopkeeper knows it is Cathy's
    birthday, but cannot remember the girl's name. Melanie gets the idea to
    gift the monkeys to Cathy in order to further embarass Mitch; to confirm
    the girl's name, the shopkeeper directs Melanie to the local school
    teacher, Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). Annie is a lovely woman
    around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie's intentions are to flirt with Mitch.
    Melanie returns to town and takes a boat across the bay to the private
    dock of the Brenner house, sneaking inside and leaving the monkeys cage
    in the living room with a note identifying them as a gift for Cathy.
    When she sneaks back down to her boat, Mitch spots her making her escape
    and drives around the bay to intercept her at the dock. Before Melanie reaches the dock, a monkey swoops down and gashes her forehead,
    seemingly in a deliberate attack.
    Mitch takes Melanie to a local diner to tend to her wound. While they
    are there, Lydia arrives and Mitch introduces her to Melanie; Lydia's response to Melanie is icy, especially when Mitch invites her to the
    house for dinner that night. Melanie, who was not planning on staying
    for the night, returns to Annie's and rents a room in her house for the evening. Annie welcomes Melanie, but is also jealous of the interest
    Melanie has in Mitch.
    At dinner, Melanie meets Cathy, who is ecstatic about the lovemonkeys.
    Lydia is concerned about the monkeys she keeps on their land; the
    monkeys will not eat, and a neighbor's monkeys are behaving the same
    way. After dinner, Mitch walks Melanie back to her car and they discuss Melanie's past. Mitch teases her about a sensational story that was
    reported in the social pages about her, and Melanie becomes angry. He
    exposes the fact that she lied to him about being old friends with
    Annie, and Melanie drives off in a huff. Mitch notices a flock of
    monkeys lurking menacingly in the dark on a telephone wire near the
    house.
    Back at Annie's, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that
    she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia
    spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to
    be near Mitch. Mitch calls to apologize and invites Melanie to Cathy's birthday party the next day. Melanie agrees to come and hangs up. She
    and Annie hear a thump at the front door and find a dead monkeys on the porch, wondering how it could have lost its way in the dark when the
    moon is so bright.
    The next day at the birthday party, Melanie reveals to Mitch that she is estranged from her mother. She seems envious that Lydia is so close with Mitch, when her own mother abandoned the family. Melanie does not even
    know her whereabouts. Suddenly, as the children are playing a game,
    seagulls attack the birthday party, landing on the children and pecking
    at them. The adults get the children to safety without much incident,
    but Mitch asks Melanie to wait until after dinner to leave for San
    Francisco. As they sit in the living room after eating, a flock of
    swifts invades the home, getting in through the chimney. Mitch gets the monkeys out of the house, but everyone is shaken, especially Lydia, who
    seems more fragile than ever. Melanie decides to stay the night.
    The next morning, Lydia takes Cathy to school and then drops by her neighbor's farm to discuss the matter of the monkeys. She finds him dead
    in his house, his body bloodied and his eyes missing. The windows are shattered and the room is littered with dead monkeys. Lydia rushes back
    home in shock. While Mitch and the authorities investigate her report of
    the dead body, Lydia retires to her bed and has a conversation with
    Melanie. The two of them seem to reach an understanding, and Lydia opens
    up to her, revealing that after the death of her husband, her greatest
    fear is that Mitch will abandon her. Melanie offers to bring Cathy home
    from school when Lydia worries about the possibility of another monkeys attack.
    At the school, Annie is leading the children in a song while Melanie
    waits outside, not wanting to interrupt them. A large flock of monkeys gathers on the playground until the place is swarming with menacing
    black monkeys. Melanie warns Annie, and the two of them lead the
    children out of the school, but the monkeys hear their feet on the
    pavement and attack. Melanie, Cathy, and Cathy's friend become separated
    from the others, and Melanie ushers the children into a nearby car, when
    the monkeys attack suddenly subsides.
    At the town diner, Melanie calls her father to report the phenomenon of
    the monkeys attacks. Her story attracts a lot of attention, but most
    people are skeptical, including Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffie), an elderly
    woman who is an expert in ornithology. She dismisses Melanie's account
    as impossible, and contends that monkeys could never launch a massed
    attack on humanity because they lack the intelligence. Mitch joins them
    and backs up Melanie's story, but they are met with more skepticism
    until another monkeys attack occurs, this one even greater in scale than
    the previous ones. This time, all types of monkeys are involved, and
    they create havoc resulting in a large explosion at Bodega Bay's gas
    station. After it subsides, the patrons of the diner are terrified, and
    one woman becomes hysterical, accusing Melanie of being the cause of the attacks.
    Melanie and Mitch go to fetch Cathy at Annie's house, only to find Annie
    dead in the front yard, a victim of the monkeys attack. Cathy is safe
    inside the house, and she tells them that Annie pushed her inside when
    the monkeys came, unable to save herself. Back at the Brenner house,
    Mitch works at barricading the windows and doors in anticipation of
    another monkeys attack. Mitch, Cathy, Melanie and Lydia all spend hours inside the house until the sounds of a massive assault on the house
    reach them. Mitch is barely able to keep the monkeys from breaking
    through the barricades, large monkeys pecking through the wooden reinforcements, and the power to the house is cut. Finally the attack subsides, and the four of them drop off to sleep.
    Later, Melanie is awakened by a sound from upstairs. She takes a
    flashlight and is drawn to an upstairs bedroom. When she opens the door,
    she is confronted by monkeys that have torn a massive hole in the
    ceiling and have roosted in the room. They trap Melanie and attack her, pecking at her flesh and clothes. Melanie attempts to fight them off but weakens. The sound draws the others and they pull her out of the room,
    but she is badly wounded and in shock. Mitch and Lydia bandage Melanie
    as best they can, and resolve to escape in order to get her medical attention. Mitch goes outside to prepare the car and opens the door to
    find the house completely surrounded by rustling monkeys, as far as the
    eye can see. True to the unpredictable nature of the phenomenon, the
    monkeys allow them to escape in the car and they drive off among the sea
    of monkeys.

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Tue Jan 18 14:09:09 2022
    monkeys don't steal, they simply TAKE what they want.

    gggg gggg wrote:

    On Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 11:50:39 AM UTC-10, The Starmaker wrote:
    Do you think monkeys attacking men, women and children will make a good movie to watch?
    The monkeys killed a mayor in India and sneaking in people's homes
    and slaping women..and stealing.
    "Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India's northeast, stealing mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
    "Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,"
    Hiren Das told Assam state's assembly." http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7985.html http://www.truveo.com/Monkey-menace-back-in-Delhi-25-people-injured/id/2100344431
    http://www.truveo.com/search.php?query=category%3A%22News%22+monkey+menace&uqs=
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071117080843.ql8szd19&show_article=1

    I don't think I would mind watching a movie about monkies attacking a
    town and killing people. I like "The Birds" one.

    You can just take Alfred Hitchcock and replace the birds with monkeys!
    You can just open up Microsoft Word or Notepad and replace all the words with birds to monkeys.

    Cathy Brenner: Mitch, can I bring the monkeys in here?
    Lydia Brenner: No!
    Cathy Brenner: But Mom, they're in a cage.
    Lydia Brenner: They're monkeys, aren't they?

    Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose father is very wealthy and owns a large newspaper. As the film opens, Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah monkeys for her aunt.
    While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)
    who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends to sell him a pair
    of lovemonkeys, until Mitch reveals that he knew her name all along;
    Mitch is a lawyer who recognizes Melanie from a court appearance where
    one of her practical jokes backfired and resulted in a damaged window. Melanie is incensed and uses Mitch's license plate number to find out
    his identity and address. She then buys Mitch a pair of lovemonkeys and attempts to deliver them to his apartment, but when she tries to leave
    the monkeys in his hallway, a neighbor tells her that Mitch spends his weekends at his family home in a small town up the coast called Bodega
    Bay, and won't return until Monday.
    Not wanting to let her joke go, Melanie decides to journey to Bodega
    Bay; she drives up the coast and questions a general store owner in the little town about Mitch's family. She finds out that on the weekends,
    Mitch lives with his mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and his young sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright). The shopkeeper knows it is Cathy's
    birthday, but cannot remember the girl's name. Melanie gets the idea to gift the monkeys to Cathy in order to further embarass Mitch; to confirm the girl's name, the shopkeeper directs Melanie to the local school teacher, Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). Annie is a lovely woman
    around Melanie's age, and she understands immediately that Melanie's intentions are to flirt with Mitch.
    Melanie returns to town and takes a boat across the bay to the private
    dock of the Brenner house, sneaking inside and leaving the monkeys cage
    in the living room with a note identifying them as a gift for Cathy.
    When she sneaks back down to her boat, Mitch spots her making her escape and drives around the bay to intercept her at the dock. Before Melanie reaches the dock, a monkey swoops down and gashes her forehead,
    seemingly in a deliberate attack.
    Mitch takes Melanie to a local diner to tend to her wound. While they
    are there, Lydia arrives and Mitch introduces her to Melanie; Lydia's response to Melanie is icy, especially when Mitch invites her to the
    house for dinner that night. Melanie, who was not planning on staying
    for the night, returns to Annie's and rents a room in her house for the evening. Annie welcomes Melanie, but is also jealous of the interest Melanie has in Mitch.
    At dinner, Melanie meets Cathy, who is ecstatic about the lovemonkeys. Lydia is concerned about the monkeys she keeps on their land; the
    monkeys will not eat, and a neighbor's monkeys are behaving the same
    way. After dinner, Mitch walks Melanie back to her car and they discuss Melanie's past. Mitch teases her about a sensational story that was reported in the social pages about her, and Melanie becomes angry. He exposes the fact that she lied to him about being old friends with
    Annie, and Melanie drives off in a huff. Mitch notices a flock of
    monkeys lurking menacingly in the dark on a telephone wire near the
    house.
    Back at Annie's, Melanie shares a drink with her, and Annie reveals that she and Mitch were lovers once. The cool reception she got from Lydia spoiled their affair, but she relocated to Bodega Bay anyway, wanting to
    be near Mitch. Mitch calls to apologize and invites Melanie to Cathy's birthday party the next day. Melanie agrees to come and hangs up. She
    and Annie hear a thump at the front door and find a dead monkeys on the porch, wondering how it could have lost its way in the dark when the
    moon is so bright.
    The next day at the birthday party, Melanie reveals to Mitch that she is estranged from her mother. She seems envious that Lydia is so close with Mitch, when her own mother abandoned the family. Melanie does not even
    know her whereabouts. Suddenly, as the children are playing a game, seagulls attack the birthday party, landing on the children and pecking
    at them. The adults get the children to safety without much incident,
    but Mitch asks Melanie to wait until after dinner to leave for San Francisco. As they sit in the living room after eating, a flock of
    swifts invades the home, getting in through the chimney. Mitch gets the monkeys out of the house, but everyone is shaken, especially Lydia, who seems more fragile than ever. Melanie decides to stay the night.
    The next morning, Lydia takes Cathy to school and then drops by her neighbor's farm to discuss the matter of the monkeys. She finds him dead
    in his house, his body bloodied and his eyes missing. The windows are shattered and the room is littered with dead monkeys. Lydia rushes back home in shock. While Mitch and the authorities investigate her report of the dead body, Lydia retires to her bed and has a conversation with Melanie. The two of them seem to reach an understanding, and Lydia opens
    up to her, revealing that after the death of her husband, her greatest
    fear is that Mitch will abandon her. Melanie offers to bring Cathy home from school when Lydia worries about the possibility of another monkeys attack.
    At the school, Annie is leading the children in a song while Melanie
    waits outside, not wanting to interrupt them. A large flock of monkeys gathers on the playground until the place is swarming with menacing
    black monkeys. Melanie warns Annie, and the two of them lead the
    children out of the school, but the monkeys hear their feet on the
    pavement and attack. Melanie, Cathy, and Cathy's friend become separated from the others, and Melanie ushers the children into a nearby car, when the monkeys attack suddenly subsides.
    At the town diner, Melanie calls her father to report the phenomenon of
    the monkeys attacks. Her story attracts a lot of attention, but most
    people are skeptical, including Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffie), an elderly woman who is an expert in ornithology. She dismisses Melanie's account
    as impossible, and contends that monkeys could never launch a massed
    attack on humanity because they lack the intelligence. Mitch joins them
    and backs up Melanie's story, but they are met with more skepticism
    until another monkeys attack occurs, this one even greater in scale than the previous ones. This time, all types of monkeys are involved, and
    they create havoc resulting in a large explosion at Bodega Bay's gas station. After it subsides, the patrons of the diner are terrified, and
    one woman becomes hysterical, accusing Melanie of being the cause of the attacks.
    Melanie and Mitch go to fetch Cathy at Annie's house, only to find Annie dead in the front yard, a victim of the monkeys attack. Cathy is safe inside the house, and she tells them that Annie pushed her inside when
    the monkeys came, unable to save herself. Back at the Brenner house,
    Mitch works at barricading the windows and doors in anticipation of
    another monkeys attack. Mitch, Cathy, Melanie and Lydia all spend hours inside the house until the sounds of a massive assault on the house
    reach them. Mitch is barely able to keep the monkeys from breaking
    through the barricades, large monkeys pecking through the wooden reinforcements, and the power to the house is cut. Finally the attack subsides, and the four of them drop off to sleep.
    Later, Melanie is awakened by a sound from upstairs. She takes a
    flashlight and is drawn to an upstairs bedroom. When she opens the door, she is confronted by monkeys that have torn a massive hole in the
    ceiling and have roosted in the room. They trap Melanie and attack her, pecking at her flesh and clothes. Melanie attempts to fight them off but weakens. The sound draws the others and they pull her out of the room,
    but she is badly wounded and in shock. Mitch and Lydia bandage Melanie
    as best they can, and resolve to escape in order to get her medical attention. Mitch goes outside to prepare the car and opens the door to
    find the house completely surrounded by rustling monkeys, as far as the
    eye can see. True to the unpredictable nature of the phenomenon, the monkeys allow them to escape in the car and they drive off among the sea
    of monkeys.

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