Seconding the above, but for my money, "Almost Like Being in Love" will always be Gene Kelly's finest hour.

It really is fabulous.

We did "Brigadoon" in high school, lo these 16 years ago, and I think I still know a lot of words to most of the songs. The orch. conductor would routinely bastardize the song titles, so "Almost Like Being In Love" became "Almost Like Wearing A Glove," for instance, and he would then cue the orch. with those bastardized titles, as in "Coming up....'Wearing A Glove'...."

Good times.

Heh. That's kind of like our band director always calling "Rice's Honor" "Rice's Lobster."

Finally saw G2H2. Loved it. A gentle and caring homage to Adams and to his time. Really Python-like feel to it. Lots of Gilliam moments in it for me. Now back to read the whitefont at last.

Last time I was at Curves (i.e., yesterday) they played versions of songs from musicals with a disco beat underneath them.

It was weird.

We finally saw Hitchhiker's this weekend. One of the people in our group hadn't read the book so it was interesting to see what they thought was funny/odd/hard to follow vs what those of us who'd read the book thought. Overall the verdict was "darn fun". Plus we got the Serenity trailer -- damn does it look good on the big screen whee!

ETA: Oh and I can't get "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" outta my head!

When I called my mother Sunday, she told me my father was forcing her to read the book before they went out to see the movie. He told her it was required reading, movie or not, and hadn't realized she was the only one in the family who hadn't read it yet.

ETA: Oh and I can't get "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" outta my head!

It really does stick in the head for days and days afterward, doesn't it?

I like Kalshane's dad.

I watched the making-of documentary for "Easter Parade" last night, as well as listened to the commentary (with Fred Astaire's daughter and a movie musical expert/Garland biographer--they give excellent commentary together!).

Lots of neat trivia: Ann Miller had actually dated LB Mayer (talk about May/December romances!), but even though he had asked her to marry him (she turned him down), she insists that she had to audition for the movie and got the part with no influence from the studio head. In fact, she had just been through a nasty divorce after her drunk husband tossed her down the stairs and broke her back, and she was forced to do the entire film either taped up and/or in a brace (when she was taped up, she had to spend the rest of the day in traction). Also, if you notice, whenever she's dancing with Fred, she's wearing ballet shoes.

A neat bit of extra casting--a taxi driver is played by Jimmie Dodd, better known later as Jimmie in the original Mickey Mouse Club.

So, I'm doing some research so I can write a little background thing on Willie Nelson, and I pull up the imdb entry for The Dukes of Hazzard. I was trying to see if the boards said anything about the release date so I could add it to the background info. Dude. it's just wanking off in all directions Brittany vs. Jessica, I HATE JESSICA, JESSICA IS TEH AWSOM!!!, RACIST!, The Dukes never smoked pot!, I hate BURT REYNOLDS!!, BURT IS THE GREATEST ACTOR EVAH!~

Having said that, I saw the trailer, and it looks pretty good for that kind of movie. Like step above Starsky and Hutch good.

Willie is in The Dukes of Hazzard? Is he playing a pot-smoking, whiskey-running, folksy-wise version of Uncle Jesse or something?

Heather, you should check out Scott Von Doviak's Hick Flicks, which won't help you with the release date but provides mucho context for both Willie movies and redneck movies (and has a section on the Dukes of Hazzard, too).