Instead she started Mount His Oak immediately...I’ll see myself out.

lol, Holyoke

NO, Say Anything is like 4,000 kinds of amazing. Really, truly. It is a fantasatic movie. And an adorable (but flawed!) daughter-father relationship as well.

I admit my response was ‘Dirty Dancing took place in the 60s!?’

Yeah it’s kinda hard to fight against the princess thing. My daughter is 5 and has way too many Disney Princess items but she loves them. She also has a huge amount of Barbies and other “girly” things and it’s okay because we balance it with building confidence in her, emphasizing brains and learning but it’s okay to…

I have seen all of those, and I’d recommend The Godfather and Say Anything first; Breakfast Club is also good. However, I can tell you that even though I was in the prime demographic for these movies (but not The Godfather, being only about five at the time), they mean little if anything to me (aside from Say…

She was supposed to be an older teen but, because I am way too into trivia about this movie, I do know that Jennifer Grey was like 27 when it was filmed. So you’re not wrong.

Has it ever bothered anyone else that Johnny Castle’s “time of his life” included helping a friend with a botched abortion, being accused of theft, and being fired? That’s a shitty time in anyone’s life.

I think there are lots of good uses of contemporary music in period pieces - juxtaposition is one of the artist’s greatest tools, after all - but not in a context where the audience is expected to be fully engaged in suspension of disbelief.

Flashdance! I watched it last year when I was home sick. It is like a caricature of a caricature of the 1980s. It’s definitely not a comedy, but it was hilarious.

“Did it ever bug the hell out of anyone else that Baby and Johnny dance to a song that was clearly produced in the late ‘80s... in 1963?”

And not to wear too much makeup.

With the caveat that it’s got some very, very problematic stuff about India, I like Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “A Little Princess.” The thrust of the story is that being a princess is a lot of responsibility and involves helping people and not just fancy clothes.

My late mother was a New Yorker, through and through. (She was a Bronxite from a time when it wasn’t exactly a terrifically safe place to live, and then they moved to Levittown.) She used to say that to properly live in NYC, you needed to insulate yourself from it a little bit. Simply because it is a lot of people in…

I mean, it’s like nobody ever got the memo that you don’t have to be afraid of people who have no power over you. And these people have no power.

As a teacher I can tell you that these parent cliques cause a lot of extra headaches and in general they are hated no matter how much they volunteer.

Oksana won because of the judges cheating.

I used to go to a skating camp in Canada and Elvis would guest coach on occasion. I miraculously landed a double flip double loop in front of him and never went on to do it again.

Was just going to say this. So many black families ( mine included) have southern, northern, west coast, and east coast members because portions of the family broke off from the south in search of better education, less overt racism, and job opportunities. It was dangerous, grueling, and they had no resources but…