*Gives thumbs up*
"Can you give me an A please?" :)
Haha... I watched this last night via NetFlix and I laughed so hard at the scene! The piano nun with the hearing aid was hilarious.. This flick is so underrated.. I found myself singing along with the songs and laughing out loud quite a bit. I have always been a fan of Whoopi.. Looking forward to watching Corrina Corrina tonight. (Love that NetFlix streaming!)
Hilarious! I've always loved that part! "Alma!!"...stomps on the floor.."Check your battery!" haha! Then later on in the movie when they come outside to clean things up around the neighborhood..although there is music playing and you can't actually hear what Mary Clarence is saying, you see her screaming into Alma's battery pack! HAHA!
shareSister Alma rocked that keyboard! Go, Sr. Alma!!
shareOh, I thought she said 'check your battery' because she wasn't paying attention to the choir, she was just filing nails and doing her own thing, and Delores was trying to be sarcastic about it cuz she didn't seem to be 'working' properly.
shareIf she was doing anything else than fiddling with the hearing aid, she would have been "telling her beads". I could never see clearly which it was.
shareThis flick is so underrated..
It also, in case you haven't noticed has a surprisingly low 6.0/10 IMDb score. It's great that it was a commercial hit back in the day but it deserves more love in the here-and-now.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
Ya, I was really surprised with the IMDb rating. The Rotten Tomatoes score isn't also that high. Though for a comedy, the RT score isn't actually bad. Still, given its popularity up to today, I expected more positive regard.
shareWhat does 1968 have to do with anything? The movie was set in the 90s. Not in 68.
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She is wearing a type of hearing aid known as a "body worn aid." It was the first type of electronic hearing aid and is actually still in use today, usually by wearers in poorer areas or sometimes by people with extreme hearing loss. like so many modern technologies, it can be more reliable and break down less often than more modern and complex technologies.
Anyone who has studied acoustics by choice will probably know this tidbit, but there are others who had to study introductory acoustics as part of a curriculum for another degree who probably don't. One person who is credited with a lot of contribution to the body worn hearing aid was Dr. Harvey Fletcher, who is the first name on the Fletcher-Munson curve (a diagram that illustrates the loudness perceptibility of different frequencies at different intensities, with the "zero curve" illustrating the threshold of normal human hearing.)
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I've never seen a hearing aid worn around the neck before
She probably wore it because the producers/directors wanted to highlight how old and old-fashioned she was. The body worn hearing aid is pretty ancient, so she probably got it many years ago and just never changed it. Besides, the visual of a body worn hearing aid is unmistakeable, and all great comedies have at least some visual and physical references.
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