User:Stedder

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Just a placeholder for now, as I can't stand to see my name in red any more.

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W.A. Noyes, Jr.

Bob Considine

Paul Greenberg

Marvin Kitman

Bible Camp

Hell House (film) Max Morath

Splendor in the Grass
Sometime last year, I saw that awful bit about "a girl in a small town in Kansas in 1928 who expresses her moral principles by refusing to give in to her boyfriend's demands for sex" and how "He selfishly turns to another for gratification and she is driven to despair." I wanted to change it; but, for a few reasons, I ended up avoiding Wikipedia for some months. I was pleased, today, to see it had since been improved, and I felt like contributing some more. Do you happen to know which house interiors were shot in Staten Island? Thanks for catching my missing "of", by the way. (I'm still debating with myself about "comes from", "is taken from", "originates in", and "is found in", for the Wordsworth bit.) Oh, and the bit about the parents' juxtaposed reasons for abstinence is something I caught just today; I ended up adding it to Wikiquote. President Lethe 00:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

About William Inge and the possessive adjective before some of his works' titles. I think your argument about telling where one title ends and another begins is sometimes a good one, especially if the typeface has no distinction between italic commas and roman commas, or if someone has chosen the wrong one (italic or roman) for a certain comma. But I'm now wondering whether perhaps your visual interface with Wikipedia is different from mine: as I see it, the break between one title and the next is obvious with just a comma and a space—because the titles have been rendered as links to articles about those works, and we can see that the comma is in a color different from that of the links and is not underlined. Anyway, if we are going to use "his" before more than just the first title, we should, I believe, use it before every title.

Back to Splendor in the Grass.
 * Thanks for your additional words on my talk page. If you want, you can contact me through "E-mail this user".
 * I watched part of the movie on DVD last night; I think the house interiors that were shot on location must be those of the Loomis house; the Stampers' house definitely seems like a set on a soundstage; I'd like to find something firmer than my own impression, though, before clarifying that hidden statement in the article's words about shooting locations.
 * Now you've gotten me interested in Inge's other works.
 * We must have quite some years between us; I graduated high school in 1998. I first saw Splendor in the Grass one night on TV with my girlfriend in 2000 or 2001. I think we missed the beginning; but we liked it enough that I taped it when it aired again. Later, I bought the DVD. I really enjoy it, and see new aspects of it each time I watch it. The mother of the girlfriend I first watched it with was something like Deanie's, in the sex department. ... Well, I could say more; but I'm reluctant to get too personal in these Wikipedia pages.

Thanks again for your work and input. I may have more to discuss later. I've been thinking about expanding the Splendor article, but don't necessarily trust myself about how much about a movie is worth including in an encyclopedia.

Until next time. President Lethe 00:33, 25 March 2006 (UTC)