Ohhhhh, Crossing Delancey is just one of the best movies ever.
"Take my arm, Sam, I won't break. One hundred and twenty pounds of pure gold-- that's me. Come children. Let's put the Bubbe to bed."
Xander ,'Lessons'
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Ohhhhh, Crossing Delancey is just one of the best movies ever.
"Take my arm, Sam, I won't break. One hundred and twenty pounds of pure gold-- that's me. Come children. Let's put the Bubbe to bed."
And because Barb reminded me of Peter Riegert, probably my favorite makes-me-happy movie of all time, Local Hero.
Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is playing on TCM.
Looks like Jody is wearing a wig there. It's hard to believe she did this, Taxi Driver and Freaky Friday in the same year.
I didn't know Alexis Smith was in this! One of the prettiest actresses of the '40s, and still striking here.
Also, didn't know she was married to Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn) her whole life.
Martin Sheen is supercreepy and superfreaky in this.
probably my favorite makes-me-happy movie of all time, Local Hero.
Me too. I had to have a moratorium on watching it for several years. I was watching it too much.
Gordon and Stella have one of the best marriages in movies.
And Gordon is Wedge Antilles!
Or C-3PO. I forget which.
He's Wedge!
And Ewan's Uncle!
Love, Actually
Requiem for a Dream (if you like pain and suffering)
Martin Sheen is supercreepy and superfreaky in this.
I gotta admire the way he really committed to playing such a loathsome character. Between this and Badlands, he's lucky he didn't get thoroughly typecast a la Tony Perkins.
Love, Actually
Pretty much any Richard Curtis film, although Love, Actually is probably my favorite. Also gets points for the best use of "Both Sides Now" in any movie scene. Just utterly heartbreaking.
And Bev, speaking of Peter Riegert it still gives me the giggles to think of him going from being Boone in Animal House to playing Sam, the Pickle Man. Damn, but AH had such an amazing cast.
I have Crossing Delancey and Green Card (shut up. I love the apartment. And the roof garden. And the composing on the spot scene is great. As is Bebe Neuwirth) on tape, and an unreliable vcr. I need to find them on dvd.
I never saw Animal House. Or The Blues Brothers. I have seen and read enough refs to and from them, though, that I totally grok the latter and can benignly overlook the former. Nerds, however? I & II? Oh yeah. I can't *not* recite the, "Clap your hands, everybody! Everybody clap your hands" faux rap from the techno talent show act at the end of I. Mark Greene, Elliot Weston, onstage together. Who'da thunk?