I have a strong feeling that Murphy and co. are going to return to Finn's passing again in the future. It seems inevitable that, if Rachel goes all the way to Broadway in "Funny Girl," her opening night performance singing "(His Is The Only) The Music That Makes Me Dance" will be intercut with several flashback…
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Hall and Oates started recording in the 70's, but didn't achieve commercial success and serious radio play until the 80's. ("Sara Smile" and "Rich Girl" were small successes, but it wasn't until "Voices" and the single "Kiss On My List" that they "broke through" commercially.) At one point they were the most…
It was definitely unique—to abuse the apple metaphor, it was tart, hard, and had a definite crabbed quality to it. The photography was gorgeously understated and used the Oregon locales spectacularly; all of the performers were at least good (especially Stoll, O'Hare, Wilson, Stockwell and Dickey), but Groff is…
She also commented that when she asked Julie Andrews what she should do with her movie money, Andrews cheerfully replied, "Buy a fur coat!" (Andrews talks for several minutes during the recording of her autobiography "Home" about buying her first fur; coming from a very poor English background, I think that was her…
Love him, especially the football sketch he did with Josh Meyers where two "bros" are watching the game and everytime the Buccaneers ("My Bucs! MY BUCS!") do something spectacular, they get more and more turned on. As the sketch progresses, they get more and more amorous with each other. (I was waiting for the…
You had questions about "Rollercoaster" and "2012" but barely touched on "A Touch of Class" and complely ignored "The Owl and the Pussycat"? I am flummoxed by your priorities, sir.
I think the movie seems to be subtly critiquing Jackman's faith and seemingly unshakable "morality"—he at first seems like an avenging angel, but the movie slowly shows you the violence and rot and fear that's always been there, even before & amidst these terrible events. (The survivalist stuff, the killing of the…
I actually thought Pfeiffer almost stole the show in "Dark Shadows" and gave it some underpinings of real feelings. And you have to love a climax where most female characters would be written to run screaming out of the house in hysterics, but what does Pfeiffer do when all hell (literally!) breaks loose? She goes…
He also doesn't mention "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and his performance at the finale of Pyramus and Thisbe is one of my favorite bits of Shakespeare I've ever seen, especially regarding that work. He gets so carried away with emotion at Pyramus' death ("His eyes were green as leeks!") that he literally stops the…
Two notes: McKean has a priceless cameo with I believe Tracy Ullman in "Jumping Jack Flash" (at the embassy ball right around the "You Can't Hurry Love" bit), playing a twit who dances with Whoopi for a moment, then receieves a hissed "You unspeakable BASTARD, Leslie!" from a fed-up Ullman. A favor, I presume, to…
If I'd been drinking, that last line by the old lady regarding Julie Delpy would've caused me to have a massive spit-take. (I disagree, but I can see how someone might say that.)
It's interesting that the "buddy movie" with two guys is such a staple of box-office successes, but with women, they often go for 3 or more—"Nine to Five," "Crimes of the Heart" "Charlie's Angels" "The First Wives' Club" all relied on trios, "Sex and the City" had four, and "Steel Magnolias" "Bridesmaids" had about…
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I don't have much of an opinion on "What's Up," but I was working for Wherehouse records in the early 90's, and the first time the video for Ween's "Push Th' LIttle Daisies" came on—blasting throughout the store—I became so hysterical I literally fell over and couldn't breathe from laughing. People were staring at…
With the possible exception of "One Fine Day" (which, oddly, should have been right in her wheelhouse pairing her with George Clooney), has Pfeiffer EVER given a mediocre, let alone bad, performance?
Say what you will about Steven Spielberg, the man is in a class by himself. His best stuff (the bits from "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" "Jaws" "Jurassic Park" "Raiders" "Minority Report") are leagues ahead of Michael Bay and other purveyors of general mayhem. (Nice clips for Cameron—represented by "Aliens" "T2" and…
Bob Benson is thus going to own the world during the go-go-go Reagan 80's—his faux-sincerity, his sunniness, his ability to morph into seemingly anything and never break a sweat or get his hands dirty is going to prove very invaluable. He's exactly the type who's going to glad-hand his way to the top seemingly…
Best: The final 5 minutes of "Lawn Dogs," which turns what seemed to be a quirky morality tale about suburban hypocrisy and the friendship between a young girl and slightly shady handyman into…….a fairy tale? A folk tale? Whatever it was, I was so stunned I sat immobilized in my seat for almost 10 minutes after the…
I grew up on the same block of the NE Branch of the Seattle Library—it was literally just down the alley from me, so through ages 5-14, I spent day after day lugging piles of books home. And the librarians knew I loved to read, and kept feeding my head. Nirvana!