The movie I’ve seen the most times is probably Empire Strikes Back, because my friends and I went to see it every day the summer it came out. It was fun, but it really wasn’t about the movie as much as it was scraping together the $1.50 and then goofing around downtown afterwards.
The movie that I obsessively watch and re-watch every chance I get is Local Hero.
I don’t think so, unless he goes 20-3 for the next 5 years straight. He’s got a lifetime winning percentage of 57%, with only one 20-win season.
I don’t rate his reliever-numbers too highly, given that they came in an era when relievers were juicing up to improve their recovery time for nightly outings.
Despite being the best “money” pitcher on those Braves teams, he had too many “eh” years.
Plus, the last few seasons have shown that the NL is truly the junior circuit.
And he got beat by Pettitte in Game 5 in 1996, baby!
I watch Strictly Ballroom at least once a year. Dirty Dancing was on the other night, and one HAS to watch – because nobody puts Baby in a corner… What if life really was all about breaking into harmonies and perfectly choreographed dance numbers?
For some reason, a movie I’m craving renting is Making the Grade. It stars Judd Nelson and Andrew Dice Clay – I don’t think I need to say any more.
Making the Grade has Clay’s Frank Stallone impersonation, the funniest thing he ever did by a wide, wide margin.
Grease is weird to me because it only has one first-class pop song — Summer Lovin’ — and it’s something like the first or second song in the movie, making Grease to musicals what The Doors with the never-equaled “Break on Through” is to rock groups.
Plus Stockard Channing is the oldest looking teenager ever. Older-looking than Gabrielle Charteris and Leroy from Fame COMBINED.
More on Making the Grade – it was filmed at Rhoades College in Memphis.
True, Stockard is the oldest teenager ever, but if you ever subject yourself to Grease 2 – and I’m convinced they actually let a computer program developed as a 3rd grade class project write the music and lyrics for that one – Adrian Zmed, Maxwell Caufield and Lorna Luft are not exactly convincing as 18 year-olds either.
The 6 degrees connection here is the presence of Michelle Pfeiffer in both Grease 2 and Scarface. How that addresses Gil’s question I don’t know.
Lorna Luft has to have been 30 when she did that, but Stockard Channing still looked like she could have been her babysitter.
Did any of you know that Weezie Jefferson was 21 years older than George Jefferson? Isabel Sanford was like the last great 19th Century stage actress. This should have been the first line of her obituary.
Gil, I think adoration of Scarface is the great uniting force among all of our nation’s young men, regardless of creed or color. I’m not sure it’s constrained by our bourders. If there is a riot at the World Cup, I’m pretty certain they could show Scarface on big screens and everyone would stop fighting and start watching.
You think? I just haven’t seen that level of devotion among white young men, but maybe it’s because there aren’t any in the NBA.
Do you non-NJ readers ever see those mall kiosks where they sell “charcoal drawings” of the Last Supper, except with like Pacino, Gandolfini and DeNiro?
And, coincidentally, Page 6 in the NYPost had the following just this morning:
“THERE I am, aged 34, pretending I’m in high school. I honestly treated it as seriously as playing Viola in ‘Twelfth Night,’ so I’m glad it worked and people didn’t say: ‘Who does she think she’s kidding?'”
–Stockard Channing on playing Betty Rizzo in “Grease.”
All the kids in my hometown LOVED Scarface. And since my hometown is the sociological ideal for average american town, I can rest my case.
They don’t have the extended adolescence opportunities of NBA players or James Buster Douglass, so it’s probably still not on their minds as much, but you listen closely to any white midwestern male 35-40, and you can hear the faint traces of a Cuban accent.
Along with the Schwarzenegger movies, Scarface was one of those used by the (predominantly white) fraternity cohort at Davidson College for making pledges drink each time a profane word was uttered. Milwaukee’s Best was about $8.99 a case, so it was an economically reasonable exercise. “Say ‘allo to my leetle friend” was as popular a quote on campus as any of the Fletch or Caddyshack lines that suburban white boys seem required to memorize.
Man, I must’ve missed this Scarface fetish completely, going to a hippy-trippy school like Hampshire, where the film everyone quoted was Harold & Maude. Given how ugly the girls tended to be, you can sorta understand…
The movie I’ve seen the most times is probably Empire Strikes Back, because my friends and I went to see it every day the summer it came out. It was fun, but it really wasn’t about the movie as much as it was scraping together the $1.50 and then goofing around downtown afterwards.
The movie that I obsessively watch and re-watch every chance I get is Local Hero.
I don’t know about most, but have you seen Airplane lately. Age has made some jokes that were lost on a 12 year old extremely funny.
BTW: How’s the flooding in Ringwood? Do you think God is trying to make it clear to the republicans that global warming exists?
smoltz: hall of fame?
I don’t think so, unless he goes 20-3 for the next 5 years straight. He’s got a lifetime winning percentage of 57%, with only one 20-win season.
I don’t rate his reliever-numbers too highly, given that they came in an era when relievers were juicing up to improve their recovery time for nightly outings.
Despite being the best “money” pitcher on those Braves teams, he had too many “eh” years.
Plus, the last few seasons have shown that the NL is truly the junior circuit.
And he got beat by Pettitte in Game 5 in 1996, baby!
When I was about 12, I saw Grease 17 times. My God….
I watch Strictly Ballroom at least once a year. Dirty Dancing was on the other night, and one HAS to watch – because nobody puts Baby in a corner… What if life really was all about breaking into harmonies and perfectly choreographed dance numbers?
For some reason, a movie I’m craving renting is Making the Grade. It stars Judd Nelson and Andrew Dice Clay – I don’t think I need to say any more.
Making the Grade has Clay’s Frank Stallone impersonation, the funniest thing he ever did by a wide, wide margin.
Grease is weird to me because it only has one first-class pop song — Summer Lovin’ — and it’s something like the first or second song in the movie, making Grease to musicals what The Doors with the never-equaled “Break on Through” is to rock groups.
Plus Stockard Channing is the oldest looking teenager ever. Older-looking than Gabrielle Charteris and Leroy from Fame COMBINED.
While we’re at it, does anyone have any theories on what’s up with black people and Scarface?
More on Making the Grade – it was filmed at Rhoades College in Memphis.
True, Stockard is the oldest teenager ever, but if you ever subject yourself to Grease 2 – and I’m convinced they actually let a computer program developed as a 3rd grade class project write the music and lyrics for that one – Adrian Zmed, Maxwell Caufield and Lorna Luft are not exactly convincing as 18 year-olds either.
The 6 degrees connection here is the presence of Michelle Pfeiffer in both Grease 2 and Scarface. How that addresses Gil’s question I don’t know.
Lorna Luft has to have been 30 when she did that, but Stockard Channing still looked like she could have been her babysitter.
Did any of you know that Weezie Jefferson was 21 years older than George Jefferson? Isabel Sanford was like the last great 19th Century stage actress. This should have been the first line of her obituary.
Gil, I think adoration of Scarface is the great uniting force among all of our nation’s young men, regardless of creed or color. I’m not sure it’s constrained by our bourders. If there is a riot at the World Cup, I’m pretty certain they could show Scarface on big screens and everyone would stop fighting and start watching.
You think? I just haven’t seen that level of devotion among white young men, but maybe it’s because there aren’t any in the NBA.
Do you non-NJ readers ever see those mall kiosks where they sell “charcoal drawings” of the Last Supper, except with like Pacino, Gandolfini and DeNiro?
And, coincidentally, Page 6 in the NYPost had the following just this morning:
“THERE I am, aged 34, pretending I’m in high school. I honestly treated it as seriously as playing Viola in ‘Twelfth Night,’ so I’m glad it worked and people didn’t say: ‘Who does she think she’s kidding?'”
–Stockard Channing on playing Betty Rizzo in “Grease.”
Yes, Stockard, you fooled us all.
All the kids in my hometown LOVED Scarface. And since my hometown is the sociological ideal for average american town, I can rest my case.
They don’t have the extended adolescence opportunities of NBA players or James Buster Douglass, so it’s probably still not on their minds as much, but you listen closely to any white midwestern male 35-40, and you can hear the faint traces of a Cuban accent.
Betty?
Along with the Schwarzenegger movies, Scarface was one of those used by the (predominantly white) fraternity cohort at Davidson College for making pledges drink each time a profane word was uttered. Milwaukee’s Best was about $8.99 a case, so it was an economically reasonable exercise. “Say ‘allo to my leetle friend” was as popular a quote on campus as any of the Fletch or Caddyshack lines that suburban white boys seem required to memorize.
Man, I must’ve missed this Scarface fetish completely, going to a hippy-trippy school like Hampshire, where the film everyone quoted was Harold & Maude. Given how ugly the girls tended to be, you can sorta understand…