The NYT review is online.
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
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Tom Scola - Feb 05, 2008 8:35:42 am PST #3848 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Polter-Cow - Feb 05, 2008 8:39:59 am PST #3849 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The last chapter, that concerned with the return of Powell to his home in this country, is, like so many screen stories, much too sentimental, and there is far more of it than one wants.
Things haven't changed since 1927, have they.
JZ - Feb 05, 2008 8:46:25 am PST #3850 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oooh, thanks!
Caught the NYT in an error -- Arlen's character is named David Armstrong, not Bruce. I'm sorely tempted to email the ombudsman about this. A big old gross error like that, out flapping in the wind for 81 years; they'd better get on it right away!
lisah - Feb 05, 2008 8:49:15 am PST #3851 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
JZ, I bet the omsbudsman would get a kick out of that!
Jessica - Feb 05, 2008 8:56:59 am PST #3852 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Wait for the end - you need to see the sign-off. And then tell me this kid wasn't the original inspiration for McLovin.)
Strega - Feb 05, 2008 9:09:46 am PST #3853 of 10000
I don't know how you can ask Casablanca to be more gay when it's already got Renault saying things like "She was asking about you earlier, Rick, in a way that made me extremely jealous."
Fred Pete - Feb 05, 2008 9:35:39 am PST #3854 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
We taped Wings and are now looking forward to it even more.
As for Casablanca, any movie that ends with one man saying to another, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," doesn't need any more gay subtext credentials.
JZ - Feb 05, 2008 9:45:04 am PST #3855 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
We taped Wings and are now looking forward to it even more.
I was thinking of you and Hubs and your love of old movies when I watched it. It's just... oh, it's an unbearably intimate, romantic scene.
I don't know enough about Wellman or either of the actors to even guess whether it was intentional or accidental; but, watching it, I could imagine some rural teenage boy in 1927, full of feelings he can't name but that scare him shitless, ducking out of an afternoon of school or chores to see that bang-up new flying aces movie, and being completely shaken by this one brief little window into a world he hadn't imagined could exist.
Jessica - Feb 05, 2008 10:05:29 am PST #3856 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH and I saw Harold & Kumar 2 last night and laughed our asses off. While there's nothing in there quite equal to the "Hold On" scene from the first one, it's still REALLY really really funny. Less pot, more sex. NPH = made of awesome.
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2008 10:13:13 am PST #3857 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm not sure it's possible to equal the Hold On scene. I keep thinking one of these viewings, it won't be as funny, but thus far, that hasn't happened.