MattandMarkT

I love Wings ... it was a real sweet piece of sitcom work ... Tony Shaloub was a stitch and the writing was top shelf ... the show managed to get it done without touching a lot of sensitive issues which can be a crutch for many modern sitcoms ... I liked the interplay between the brothers with their very different personalities ... Kaye, the employee, who ran the company ... Lowell, the good-natured knucklehead whose lone talent was the ability to fix airplanes and be a loving friend and family man ... Roy, the ruthless competitor and Helen, the ever self-effacing one who stepped up to the plate when the chips were down time after time ... I also like the adjustments over the years, Helen and Joe go from pals to lovers and marry ... Shaloub was so good as the maitre d' that he had to change careers so it was much easier to write him into the scripts ... he was my favorite character with his passionate Italian solilioquies

The Sand Pebbles is simply my favorite movie ... love in all its forms with family love being least represented (mother and child however briefly)... love of God (Jameson in particular) love of humanity (the missionaries again) love of country (the revolutionaries, and even the sailors and imperialists) ... brotherhood(Frenchy and Jake, some others) ... love of cause (the revolutionaries) ... love of the corps (the sailors) ... and last but not least, romantic love (Jake and Candy, Frenchy and Mai lei) ... it may seem to be an awkward forum for all these gushy themes, but on second thought, what better forum? The overall acting, writing and cinematography were excellent.