I love that!

I remember they put that in his obit. RIP

I adored his haircut in the this film- it was perfect for the character and hot when he’d sweep it out of his eyes. 

I concur, I was 17 when it came out and it seared me. I read the novel the next day. To this day, I think it’s the most faithful adaption of a novel ever filmed. It captures so much of the feeling of the prose as well as the content. 

What you picked up on is that the Honeychurch’s aren’t upper-class. It’s implied in the film, but explicit in the novel. They moved to Windy Corners after Mr. Honeychurch died. He had become a wealthyish merchant of some kind. The local gentry mistook them for gentry and welcomed them into their social circle. It was…

Kelly, HOW could you have never seen this movie before? I enjoy all your articles and I would have bet my last dime that you would have seen this movie many times- now you’ll have to catch up on re-viewings.

You like the supporting cast because they are all- every one of them- amazing. It’s a great romantic costume drama, but the supporting characters are what make it the absolute best one ever. I’m not sure that anyone in that cast (except DDL maybe) was ever better in anything else (and I’m including Denholm Elliot and…

I think the Delta love was added simply because that was the airline that they ended up flying home on. Maybe they explained what had happened to several airlines and Delta was the one that could seat them and was especially kind to them in the process. It doesn’t seem weird to me in criticizing one experience that…

Alaska’s story is that they sold the same seats twice and tried to move one of the already seated passengers to coach. That’s not a good story, but it seems to be the best they could come up with.

YGM is a remake of LSATC, but with significant differences. James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan play co-workers who don’t get along and don’t know that they’ve been co-responding to each other through a lonely hearts type ad and have been falling in love via those letters. They both end up better off in their careers…

It has not fallen by the wayside, kids today get ten times the training in it I got. They learn it from elementary school on and in great detail. It may be that the internet somehow is blurring it for them, but they do learn it over and over. 

She didn’t just use the quotes. She used the research, ideas, argument and framing made by the original argument. From the above article, it appears she pasted the article and then just went through and changed up some of the sentences.

I work with high school students from across a range of schools and they would all know that essentially re-writing an original work in your own words (but keeping the quotes!) is plagiarism. They are taught over and over again that you can’t steal ideas as well as words. The only tricky part is what’s common…

All of that is still taught in high school (at least everywhere I’ve ever worked and I work with students from lots of different schools, not just one). They get drilled on plagiarism and especially plagiarism through re-wording. This woman is at a prestigious school where she went through more training on plagiarism.…

Do it! Binge some. There are so many good ones and many have strong, women agents. They’re not waiting around, they’re doing. Anything with Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn or Rosalind Russell is likely to be particularly good.

IMO, a lot of those early movies are more progressive than the movies we see now. The 30s particularly was big on strong, competent women.

When a good one is made, it makes bank: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Silver Linings Playbook, Enchanted, Trainwreck- all did very well. They can often have a lower budget (generally no need for special effects budget) so they don’t need to make a billion dollars to turn in a tidy profit. The Big Sick last year had a…

There is no way the 80s-2000 were the golden age of RomComs. The 30s and 40s turned out an incredible number of rom cons that are great. The only ones I can think of that come close are Rob Reiner’s films (When Harry Met Sally, Princess Bride, The Sure Thing) and a couple remakes of classic works (Clueless, 10 Things…

I agree with your points about the movie, except the part about the actors not looking enough alike. Young Garner and Gosling are not that far off from each other (except the chin). See the young pic of Garner posted above and compare it to Gosling. Ditto on young Gena Rowlands and McAdams. People change a lot as they…

I’m sorry you had to go through that. Mine was a doozy too with similar aspects (though not fake HIV!). Therapy didn’t seem to help in my family member’s case, sadly.