Mal ,'Ariel'
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Gregory Peck.
The Big Sleep was great, but I prefer Bogie and Bacall in To Have and Have Not, where you can watch them actually falling in love with each other as it happens in the story they're portraying.
I liked Crystal and Ryan, but I think I'd pick Kidman/MacGregor and Garofalo/Chaplin over Hooker!Cinderella for the modern pairing.
I hate Pretty Woman So. Much. I just can't even talk about it.
I would have liked to have seen the original ending to Pretty Woman, where he lets her go back to the streets and doesn't go after her to tie it up all so prettily.
I just updated my queue to put Finding Neverland at the top. I'm so sad that I missed that in the theatre.
It was FG.
The original ending to Pretty Woman makes about $5 mil at the box office.
I know we have some Gary Cole fans here, so I wanted to include this bit from Stephanie Zacharek's review of Ring 2.
The other is the always fabulous, and always surprising, Gary Cole, as a cagily good-natured real estate agent. Cole is an actor whose face doesn't trigger an instant "good guy" or "bad guy" response; his benign good looks command us to watch him closely every second in order to figure out what he's up to -- he's just the sort of actor you want to see in a movie like this
he's just the sort of actor you want to see in a movie like this
I've considered him just the sort of actor I want to see in a movie that got better reviews.
I've read a couple reviews that have singled him out as one of the best things in an underwhelming movie.
Meg Ryan/Billy Crystal makes sense to me, I suppose, although not as #1. I'm a little appalled that Pretty Woman is on there, though. Don't know who I'd choose--I think I've missed out on a lot of the classic romantic movies, so I'd vote for pairings like Franka Potente and Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity, or Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days. Or, you know, Sam and Frodo.
Hey Dana, I don't know if you stay current in the Music thread these days, but I posted in there a couple days ago about Tracy Grammer's new album--thought you'd be interested. Definitely pick up a copy when you can.
I've read a couple reviews that have singled him out as one of the best things in an underwhelming movie.
He's probably due for a write up in Cintra Wilson's series on Undervalued Character Actors.