Mal ,'Ariel'
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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!
JZ, I bet the omsbudsman would get a kick out of that!
(Wait for the end - you need to see the sign-off. And then tell me this kid wasn't the original inspiration for McLovin.)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
I just checked.
Still funny.
the single slashiest scene I've ever ever seen in an ostensibly heteronormative movie.
I was going to say, slashier than the antagonistic triangle in Gilda? But the screencap proves that the answer is yes.