The Real Story about Sunshine!
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vkwebby — 18 years ago(November 27, 2007 11:02 PM)
Jim thank you so much for sharing your memories of a beautiful person you were lucky to have known. Her story is painful and heartwarming at the same time. It sickens me to know that her tapes were stolen from her. What good could they have been to anyone else but her daughter? (I think I remember that event in the movie). Didnt the media get ahold of that fact and she was given another recorder and tapes? I would love to know if you remember that or if my memory was wrong. I just ordered the dvd and the book againkinda in the mood for a good cry. vkwebby@aol.com
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JimLowe44 — 18 years ago(November 29, 2007 09:32 PM)
Yes, As I said previously, It came out in the Denver Post! A lot of people tried with no success to recover the tapes. She was in the Kitchen on top of the cabinet washing dishes when some kid came in and took them. Her being in the state she was in, she couldn't exactly catch him on crutches. She was given another recorder to leave her memories to Jennifer. Also she had written several poems.
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yanknrebel — 18 years ago(December 05, 2007 07:43 PM)
Where might I be able to order a copy of this movie on DVD? I was born in 66, and I remember seeing this series as a young girl. I have never had the opportunity to see the movie but would love to own both the movie and the series. ANy ideas where I might be able topurchase these?
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JimLowe44 — 18 years ago(December 06, 2007 09:13 AM)
There is One site! http://www.ioffer.com/i/26247106
Stay Away from JDDVD's, Junk!
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steven_titchenell2006 — 17 years ago(October 11, 2008 06:22 AM)
According to the feedback comments, price, & missing 3 minutes of credits, it sounds identical to what I bought from JDDVD's. Since we didn't have cable in 1973 & lived in a hollow where tv reception was poor, the quality of the dvd doesn't really bother me that much. Kinda makes it more like how I remember it in a way. Although if I ever get a chance to see it again after I have a DVR, I'll probably record it. Taping it on my VCR would probably just give me an excuse to hang on to the VCR forever
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steven_titchenell2006 — 17 years ago(October 26, 2008 07:38 AM)
For some reason, none of my dvd's had been coming in clearly since I first watched my "Sunshine" dvd. I think there is a short in the channel selector switch on the splitter box that my dvd player is connected to my tv through. I switched to channel 4 & then back to channel 3 & now all my dvd's, including "Sunshine" play clearly again. Although the opening few minutes with the credits, which was added later, isn't as good a quality as the rest of the dvd. But it's no big deal to me because the quality isn't horrible.
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Tamshie — 15 years ago(August 30, 2010 02:54 PM)
Hi! I have both Sunshine and Sunshine Christmas on DVD. Picture and sound quality of both are good - comments from other people are available too. DVD+R disks are region free and compatible with DVD players worldwide: USA, Australia and Europe particularly. Please contact me if you are interested.
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hasheart — 10 years ago(June 11, 2015 08:46 PM)
I'm so sorry for your losses. i too am a parent, and i know that it must kill you to outlive, not just one, but two of your children. It goes against nature. In my belief, you and your children wil be reunited when it's your time to go. Please message me ok. thanks and God bless
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Clusium — 16 years ago(June 01, 2009 07:36 PM)
"The medical technology then is not what we have today. If you could of seen the suffering that Lynn went through, I feel your comments would of been more enlightened to favor her decision."
I was just watching a segment of "Sunshine" on Youtube(the scene where "Sam" is singing in the pub & "Kate" is watching him perform), & reading some of the comments below the segment.
This one poster wrote that the movie always annoyed her because "A young mother learns she has cancer in her leg and must have it removed or die, She decides cannot live without her leg and refuses to have it removed. Her husband is a struggling musician and since she wants her young daughter to remember her - she records messages on a tape recorder She left her child behind, motherless for vanity."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIewCZjKQzQ&NR=1
Do you have an account with Youtube, Jim? Perhaps you might like to post to this person, & tell her off for her ignorance!!!
Edit: Turns out the link I posted doesn't go straight to the site.
Go to to Youtube.com, type in "Sunshine 1973." A list should come up. The one I found is entitled "Sunshine 1973 - Um Dia De Sol - My Sweet Lady In Bar" it was added by a poster named Paulorobe(though he wasn't the one who posted a message attacking Lynne). -
JimLowe44 — 16 years ago(August 25, 2009 04:21 PM)
I could not find the video! You are right, people make comments when they do not know what they are talking about. One person removed their comment about Lyn being selfess wanting to die instead Living. They had no ideal what that girl was going through. These people were not there, I was! They didn't hear her crying and screaming with pain. There is not too many people on this earth that could of tolerated that type of pain. People can say what they want to, I know what was going on! Like I have said previously, the medical technology wasn't near what they have today! I know her family misses her. Tom is now gone and he will comfort her once again!
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mspeterbilt-51-797074 — 14 years ago(May 12, 2011 03:59 AM)
Well it is 2011 and with today Medical Technology I have told my Doctors no to Amputation, I am 47 years I have had 5 fem-pop bypasses on my right leg and now have stents this is the last thing they say they can do for my leg and yes I agree with Lyn I feel losing my leg would make me not whole.
I watch the Sunshine Movie as a child and grew remembering the movie about her dieing with cancer and leaving her baby and the love she had for life, but not until a month or so ago had I read or saw anything about the movie again, my husband found the movie online and ordered it for me and we watched as I cried I didn't remember the part of them wanting to amputate her leg but I knew what she was saying, my husband was having a hard time with me telling the Doctors not to amputate my leg but after watching this movie he feels he knows why I have done this, every person has to go deep down into their self to find the answers so no one needs to question anyone else's answers, I live in pain daily I have 2 children and 3 grandchildren with 1 on the way and yes I want to be a part of their life's but I need to be whole.
Thanks for listening
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HalfBloodPrincess1967 — 17 years ago(September 03, 2008 09:50 AM)
Is that a picture of her on the cover of the book, or the actress that played her?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000NQ9HH8/ref =cm_ciu_pdp_images_all
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SasseNSpolt — 18 years ago(November 13, 2007 09:34 AM)
Jim,
Thank you for your facts, I never saw the movie I have the record album, in which it shows lyn and she refers to her daughter as Jenny, on the cover but the words she does say jill. It is terrible that her tapes were stolen as they were to be her legency to her daughter.
I hope that her daughter grew up and that tom was able to share stories of her mother with her.
Thank you again for your words of wisdom.
Denise
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sandbetweenmytoes — 17 years ago(July 13, 2008 11:27 PM)
Hi Jim,
First off, thank you for the behind the scene, true story. It is much appreciated by all that the story touched.
Second, You mentioned above that you have lost 2 children yourself. Please accept my sincere and heartfelt condolences. When you lose someone you love, no matter how long it has been, you miss them every day. -
JimLowe44 — 16 years ago(May 28, 2009 02:42 PM)
Your welcome! And I miss my Little boy and my daughter. You're right about them being on your mind no matter how long it's been. I lost my son in 1969 and my daughter in 1995, but I still feel the emptiness inside.
Jim