Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.

'Touched'


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DavidS - Mar 22, 2022 11:00:23 pm PDT #3103 of 3424
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sounds like something that could be in one of your Halloween mixes.

I've definitely put it on a Halloween mix.


Toddson - Mar 23, 2022 7:54:04 am PDT #3104 of 3424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I have a liking for Katherine Hepburn, but Bringing Up Baby annoys me; however, I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.

And Shanghai Express ... I'm always reminded of the line, "it took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily".


sj - Mar 26, 2022 3:57:36 pm PDT #3105 of 3424
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

It was only ten months or so in the making, but seeing Scola and Hec this past weekend inspired me to finally wrap up my look at the 1930s: [link]

I'm bookmarking this to read later!

I have a liking for Katherine Hepburn, but Bringing Up Baby annoys me; however, I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.

I love Katharine Hepburn movies, including Bringing Up Baby, although it is very different from her other roles.


megan walker - Mar 26, 2022 10:36:19 pm PDT #3106 of 3424
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I appreciate your love for Holiday - it's one of my favorites.

I love HOLIDAY. The 1930 version is also quite good: Ann Harding & Mary Astor play the sisters and (hilariously) Edward Everett Horton plays Nick Potter yet again.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 27, 2022 6:34:47 am PDT #3107 of 3424
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I also love Holiday! I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years! But she was extremely fun to play- I used my Anya “I will barf too!” Imitation.


DavidS - Mar 27, 2022 9:20:45 am PDT #3108 of 3424
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!

Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.


megan walker - Mar 27, 2022 10:17:44 am PDT #3109 of 3424
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.

I think my love for Lew Ayres in Holiday is one reason I loved All Quiet on the Western Front so much.

I have played Susan Potter (Nick Potter’s wife). I am not sure if she exists in the movie because I haven’t watched in 20 years!

I can't remember the name of the actress in the '38 version but in the '30 version it's Hedda Hopper!


Sophia Brooks - Mar 27, 2022 1:46:12 pm PDT #3110 of 3424
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Oh indeed she's in the movie and delightful. It's one of Jacqueline's favorite screwballs, and Neddy is on her short list of all-time Woobies.

My Nick Potter actor was way too young for me in reality, but I sort of fell in acting love with him! But it was so much fun to play, and I so rarely act. It made me want to act again (I was doing it as a a favor to a director friend). But it is fun that Hedda Hopper played her, and that helps me see why he asked me (He is known for his whole directing style is casting the right person and just letting them go).


JZ - Mar 30, 2022 9:49:17 am PDT #3111 of 3424
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

The Potters are absolute marriage goals. As much as I love everything else about the film as it unfolds, I got sucked in on the very first watch in the very first couple of minutes as poor Johnny Case is standing outside their apartment door ringing the bell and pounding on the door, and they're both sitting serenely in their comfy chairs in front of a fire, buried in books and newspapers with more books and newspapers stacked up all around them, and they're both so warm and content and happily lost that neither wants to be the one to set down their reading and answer the damn door.


-t - Apr 01, 2022 6:25:35 am PDT #3112 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I thought I’d make a double feature of Murder on the Orient Express and Death in the Nile after work yesterday, but I got too sleepy to finish the second one. Woke up early for whatever reason and finished it off this morning. Now, there are a lot of choices made in Branagh’s adaptations that I don’t mind or actively applaud but there are definitely some that grate. Perhaps foremost among the latter is giving not only Poirot but specifically the famous moustaches a tragic backstory. I do not approve. No.