I saw Rachel Getting Married yesterday. I love me some old-school Jonathan Demme. How cool is it that he got Robyn Hitchcock, Sister Carol and Roger Corman listed in the opening credits?
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
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Tom Scola - Oct 05, 2008 5:17:48 am PDT #8279 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 05, 2008 6:35:40 am PDT #8280 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In honor of Paul Newman, I watched SLAP SHOT last night, which I'd DVRd weeks ago, but hadn't gotten around to watching. I'd forgotten just how raunchy that movie was, language-wise. Hilarious. And Newman was so damn good in the role.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2008 7:32:06 am PDT #8281 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'll note again that I got to meet the woman who wrote the screenplay for Slap Shot, which was really cool. She based it on her brother's experiences as a minor league hockey player.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 05, 2008 10:51:38 am PDT #8282 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ned was a teammate of the real-life Carlson Brothers in Johnstown, wasn't he?
DavidS - Oct 05, 2008 10:54:54 am PDT #8283 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ned was a teammate of the real-life Carlson Brothers in Johnstown, wasn't he?
I don't know if they were teammates but I'm pretty sure they were in the same league and already notorious.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2008 7:36:03 pm PDT #8284 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched The Howling. That...was some early-eighties horror, right there. It was all right, but An American Werewolf in London is better.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 06, 2008 3:40:23 am PDT #8285 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
THE HOWLING is enormous fun if you get all the references going on, and recognize the characer actors in the supporting cast (many of whom turned up in genre movies over the decades). But I think as a straight-up movie experience (both as horror and comedy), AAWWiL is superior.
Of course, seeing Robert Picardo as Eddie in that always freaks me out/ amuses me as I have a hard time not seeing him as the doctor from ST: Voyager.
Theodosia - Oct 06, 2008 4:29:50 am PDT #8286 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Picardo also has a small role as the fire inspector in Get Crazy which startled me greatly the last time I saw it.
Fred Pete - Oct 06, 2008 5:09:46 am PDT #8287 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Saw Slap Shot in college and re-watched it recently. Many more serious elements, fewer comic elements than I remember.
Game Show Network ran two old episodes of What's My Line over the weekend -- one with Newman alone, the other with Newman and Joanne Woodward. A very entertaining show in its low-key way.
And TCM is running an all-day tribute to Newman next Sunday. I've set up the Tivo for Exodus and Sweet Bird of Youth.
brenda m - Oct 06, 2008 5:17:31 am PDT #8288 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
In case you were wondering, though, which I know you all weren't, Slap Shot II is excruciating even when you fast forward through all but the CKR scenes. (Which does at least take it down to about 20 minutes.)