Bernard and Dorris?! Really?! Getoffamylawn, buncha cheap bastages. /issues

Bernard and Dorris?! Really?! Getoffamylawn, buncha cheap bastages. /issues

I'm missing something here, right?

Tilts head sideways like a confuzzled dog.

I also saw Slumdog this weekend, via the theaters. I thought it had many things going for it, and could easily pull down the Oscar this year as it's extremely accessible, but I was kind of wishing it didn't tie itself up in quite so pretty an ending bow.

Also, why on Earth did the brother decide to die in a bath full of money? And why did he have to get redeemed in the first place? Meh.

Oh, and also also, didn't Jamal know the number for a certain cell phone Latika had at the end? Why did they have to hang out on a train station to find each other? If I had been him, I'd have called her and said "Come meet me at this hotel I JUST BOUGHT US, k?"

I did enjoy it a lot, despite my nitpickies. I thought it was significantly less flawed than Benjamin Button, which seems to have the best chance otherwise, so whatever. Of the ones I've seen (haven't caught The Reader or Milk yet), I actually thought Frost/Nixon was the best movie, though.

Having not watched Crank, I have a totally different movie-related question, which I blame on Shrift:

What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?

I'll go first: Desk Set. What's not to love? It's geek-tastic, and has the nerdiest pickup line with the power to make me swoon: "I'll bet you write wonderful letters."

I'm thinking MILK might pull it off, if only so Hollywood can send a big, gianormous FUCK YOU! to the rest of California (and the states/folks that helped) for passing Prop 8.

What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?

Astonishingly, while I've seen a few Tracy movies (BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, IT'S A MAD, MAD....), and more than a few Hepburn movies, I've yet to see a movie with them paired.

Is ashamed

What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?

I don't really like their movies together. He always has a scene where he takes her down a peg for being so uppity and feminist.

I much prefer her with Cary Grant.

If I had to choose one though, I'd take Adam's Rib.

But that's partly because I like the supporting cast.

I'm missing something here, right?

They mentioned Bernard and Dorris during the beginning of the SAG awards, movie starring Ray Fiennes and ... Meryl Streep?? about the Dorris Duke and the sexual escapades in her house.

Two or three years ago Bob Balaban (the director), cast and crew came to my place of work and were scheduled to leave before the native staff needed to get into the mansion to decorate for our Holiday Open House. Long story short, they stayed weeks longer, everywhere we moved out of their way to accomadate, they suddenly decided they needed. The final straw was when we were working in the largest and most difficult room that had only one exit, and we couldn't leave or work during takes in the next room. So it was stop/start (and having to pee real bad cuz I had no clue what was going on). The whole production, from what we learned, was made possible by bumming expensive favors off various businesses and organizations and friends, so to have them fucking around with the schedule of a non-profit to accomadate their shoe-string production (and their slander of a family that was still alive) left me with little love for Bob Balaban & co. They literally would not get off of our lawn. I'm sure they payed us plenty to have us bending over and twisting into pretzels like a whore, but having to work around that during our highest stress time was personally not worth it.

What's your favorite Hepburn/Tracy movie?

Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Gris, I think Salim wanted to die in the bathtub of money so that there would be blood all over it, making it literally "blood money." And poetry or something.