[Favorite line from movie.]

From "Ball of Fire"

PROFESSOR: There seems to be a slight rosiness in the region of the throat. (or something like that)

BARBARA STANWYCK: Slight rosiness? It's as red as the Daily Worker and twice as sore!

[A to Z of Characters]

Jefferson, Thomas - Ken Howard in 1776

[The First Film That Comes to Mind...]

Swiss Family Robinson

 

next: computer

[The First Film That Comes to Mind...]

DAMN YANKEES

 

next: breaking glass

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Usual Suspects, The

[What Living Classic Star Is YOUR Favorite?]

Hard to keep track of who's still alive from classic cinema. But it's easy for me to name my favorite living actress because my favorite actress of all time is still alive: ANGELA LANSBURY. My 2nd favorite actress of all time is also still alive: MAGGIE SMITH. Then there's my third favorite: JULIE ANDREWS. The Brits are the best.

[MORGAN FREEMAN TO BE 39th ANNUAL AFI RECIPIENT]

I love Morgan Freeman best in "Driving Miss Daisy." It's amazing to think how young he was, and how believable he was as Hoak (Hoke?).

[Happy Birthday Doris Day!!]

Don't ask me why but I adore "Please Don't Eat the Daisies".

 

But then Doris rocks. She is so much better than she seems to be on the surface of her Rock Hudson comedies. What a talented actress and great singer. In fact I wish SHE was in the film version of "South Pacific". Put her in the film and take out the filters and that film would improve vastly.

[1,536 film titles from 1932]

I too adore the precode era--- well, the early '30s. The late '20s are still trying to iron out the sound kinks. But 1932 is a great year! American Madness, Number 17, Grand Hotel, Horse Feathers, Red Dust, etc, not to mention classics like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang that I still haven't seen yet.

[Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie]

Danny Kaye was in THE COURT JESTER with Mildred Natwick

[Game: Name the fictitious place, name the movie]

I didn't mean to split hairs, I was just thinking that it might not be the same movie because of that distinction. Great movie.

 

Next location:

 

Butch's Place

[A to Z of Characters]

Ursula - Pat Carroll in THE LITTLE MERMAID

[Game: Name the fictitious place, name the movie]

Is that Support Your Local Sheriff? (Or is that Madame Orr?)

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Kind Hearts and Coronets

[If you could have lived in any era which would it be and why.]

I have often said the 1820s because I love the fashions of the time---the one time people wore awesome clothes that pretty much looked good on everyone. But then I wouldn't have electricity and I'd probably be a poor beggar. Probably during the 40s. Yes I know the war was hard, but I love that music and those movies, and I wouldn't want to live through the 20s or 30s. This is only if my eyesight would be good, because honestly, in any other time period I'd be blind as a bat. So I guess I'm lucky I live now.

[MGM Movie Costumes]

hey, tracey, that's a great idea. i'll have to post a pic. between all the experts someone's bound to recognize it.

[What year stands out for great film scores?]

I'm sorry, as a kid of the '90s who was obsessed with movie scores, it's a tie between 1993 and 1995. 1993 is a great year because of Schindler's List, Jurassic Park (both Williams), Much Ado About Nothing (Patrick Doyle), Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith), and Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman) alone. 1995 has lots of good ones that I love: Toy Story (Randy Newman), Disney's Pocahontas (alan menken), Bravehart (James Horner), Babe (Nigel Westlake--though it's not all original), and Apollo 13 (james Horner again), then has two of my all time favorite scores ever: Sense and Sensibility and A Little Princess (both are by Patrick Doyle). Then there are some all-time favorite ones from 1994, like Little Women (Thomas Newman), the Lion King (Hans Zimmer), and Legends of the Fall (James Horner).

 

You just can't beat the bias of nostalgia.

[Poorly planned double features at the local cinema]

(I love Blow up and blow out)

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Quiet Man, The

[MGM Movie Costumes]

I actually have a couple pieces from the MGM costume collection that I got from a costume shop when it was closing. One actually still has an MGM label with the name "Irene Dunne"! It only has a number so we have no idea what movie it's from, but we've been searching for it.

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Knights of the Round Table

[A to Z of Characters]

St Regis, Lily - Bernadette Peters in ANNIE

[I can't take Pan and Scan anymore]

I have seen that "pan and scan" thing many times, and though it's gotten old, I'm more sick of seeing movies getting pan and scanned. ARG. Now that the TVs are rectangular, movies are being pan and scanned on the top and bottom instead. So now they need to update the "pan and scan" thing to be about not fitting movies into that horrendous rectangle that TVs are in the shape of, but that no movie is, Arg.

[*A to Z of Movies*]

Walt Disney's GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE

[Speaking of "Plot Holes" List Your Favs!]

This reminds me of an MST3K quote. In this terrible movie full of plot holes, the main character starts putting on scuba gear. Suddenly he asks the ingenue, "Why didn't you tell me you had this scuba gear?" Mike and the 'Bots starts to laugh and Mike says, "Of ALL the plot holes in the movie, they decide to fill the SCUBA gear plot hole." Tom then says, "What OTHER common recreational equipment are you hiding from me?!"

 

I think it's hilarious when a movie goes out of its way, as in this case, to fill random plot holes while others are wide open.

 

I didn't have a specific plot hole in mind though, sorry.