Here's a list of the best movies (in my opinion) of all time:
Jurassic Park (Any and All)
Gladiator
Jaws (The Original Only!)
Holiday Inn (Bing Crosby sings and Fred Astaire dances)
Robin Hood, Captain Blood (Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland were cute together)
You've Got Mail (Tom Hanks, need I say more?)
Philadelphia (See Above)
Coal Miner's Daughter (Who knew Sissy Spacek could sing?)
Pirates of the Caribbean, Chocolat, Edward Scissor Hands (All Johnny Depp, except Secret Window - It scared the piss out of me!)
Dracula (Any and all, even the cheap, tacky, campy ones)
Moonstruck
Men In Black (First One Only)
Torch Song Trilogy (Harvey Fienstein in drag is hilarious.)
The Princess Bride
Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein's with Lesley Ann Warren)
Troy (Naked Brad Pitt Butt :) and Gorgeous Eric Bana)
The Godfather (James Caan was hot!)
The Poseidon Adventure (Shelly Winters was cool.)
The Mummy
Stargate
Sergeant York and Friendly Persuasion (I love Gary Cooper.)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (First and Third, the second one sucked.)
James Bond (All Sean Connery and a few Roger Moore)
The League of Extra-Ordinary Gentlemen (Sean Connery)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Burl Ives and Paul Newman are wonderful.)
A Christmas Story (You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!!)
Disney's Jungle Book (Look for the Bear Necessities)
Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club (It was the 80's, What can I say?)
I'm sure there are more wonderful movies, but I'm tired and my mind has drawn a blank. It's time to go watch a show.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Going To The Movies
I have nothing poetic, note-worthy, or even highly amusing to write about today. I just got the idea to talk about my favorite movies.
I remember the first movie I ever saw in the theater. It was Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in "Pardners." It was at the Paramount Theater in downtown Alexandria, LA in the early 60's. I'm not sure of the year, but it was probably around 1968 or 69. My little cousin, Jennifer, was with us and she was about two or three years old. She was old enough to walk, well, run up and down the aisle until the manager told us to corral her or he would call our parents to come get us. The Paramount had a balcony and a seperate area for the black customers. We also got in trouble for going to the colored section and swinging on the curtains on the stage. The more I think about it, I don't remember much of the movie, just the side antics we were involved in.
The next movie I remember is "The Godfather." Daddy and I went to see it at the Don Theater in Alec (Alexandria for all the local people) and I fell in love with James Caan and to this day will watch any and everything he's in. That's also the year Daddy started taking all four of us kids to the drive-in theater. He would load us, our lawn chairs, snacks, cokes, beer (for him and us when he wasn't looking) into his 1968 GMC truck and away we would go. Mother stayed home, as this was her time to catch her breath and relax away from us. We would start watching our movie and before the night was over, Rodney, Larry, and Jr. would have their lawnchairs turned around trying to watch the porno movie on the far screen. I usually fell asleep half-way through whatever movie was showing and I'm guessing once I was out, Daddy joined the boys in the back of the truck trying to get a look at the naked people.
When I got old enough to go to the movies without a parent, my bestfriend (Debby Laird) and I went to see "Jaws." She drove her mom's Dodge Polaris to the Alexandria Mall and we flirted with boys and tried to act like this shark movie didn't scare us. It didn't until the man's head fell out of the sunken boat and Debbie screamed and almost peed her pants. This has to be one of the best movies and one of the best startled scenes in movie history. We still call each other whenever it comes on tv and watch it together. Every time the head falls out of the boat, her breathing speeds up. Guess she forgets that part.
My daddy passed his love of "sword movies" on to me and Larry. We can sit and watch them all day and all night. Pirates, gladiators, Robin Hood, whatever; as long as there's a sword fight going on, we're happy. My mother loved vampire movies and anyone who knows me knows I love vampire movies. If it's an old Christopher Lee or Frank Langella "Dracula" leave me alone and let me watch the blood suckers.
I think I'm going to go watch a movie.... Maybe "Jurassic Park" or "The Day After Tomorrow" I just love a good disaster, dinosaur, science fiction flick.
Ooh, "Sixteen Candles" is on tv. Don't tell anyone, but I like the Molly Ringwald movies. :)
I remember the first movie I ever saw in the theater. It was Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in "Pardners." It was at the Paramount Theater in downtown Alexandria, LA in the early 60's. I'm not sure of the year, but it was probably around 1968 or 69. My little cousin, Jennifer, was with us and she was about two or three years old. She was old enough to walk, well, run up and down the aisle until the manager told us to corral her or he would call our parents to come get us. The Paramount had a balcony and a seperate area for the black customers. We also got in trouble for going to the colored section and swinging on the curtains on the stage. The more I think about it, I don't remember much of the movie, just the side antics we were involved in.
The next movie I remember is "The Godfather." Daddy and I went to see it at the Don Theater in Alec (Alexandria for all the local people) and I fell in love with James Caan and to this day will watch any and everything he's in. That's also the year Daddy started taking all four of us kids to the drive-in theater. He would load us, our lawn chairs, snacks, cokes, beer (for him and us when he wasn't looking) into his 1968 GMC truck and away we would go. Mother stayed home, as this was her time to catch her breath and relax away from us. We would start watching our movie and before the night was over, Rodney, Larry, and Jr. would have their lawnchairs turned around trying to watch the porno movie on the far screen. I usually fell asleep half-way through whatever movie was showing and I'm guessing once I was out, Daddy joined the boys in the back of the truck trying to get a look at the naked people.
When I got old enough to go to the movies without a parent, my bestfriend (Debby Laird) and I went to see "Jaws." She drove her mom's Dodge Polaris to the Alexandria Mall and we flirted with boys and tried to act like this shark movie didn't scare us. It didn't until the man's head fell out of the sunken boat and Debbie screamed and almost peed her pants. This has to be one of the best movies and one of the best startled scenes in movie history. We still call each other whenever it comes on tv and watch it together. Every time the head falls out of the boat, her breathing speeds up. Guess she forgets that part.
My daddy passed his love of "sword movies" on to me and Larry. We can sit and watch them all day and all night. Pirates, gladiators, Robin Hood, whatever; as long as there's a sword fight going on, we're happy. My mother loved vampire movies and anyone who knows me knows I love vampire movies. If it's an old Christopher Lee or Frank Langella "Dracula" leave me alone and let me watch the blood suckers.
I think I'm going to go watch a movie.... Maybe "Jurassic Park" or "The Day After Tomorrow" I just love a good disaster, dinosaur, science fiction flick.
Ooh, "Sixteen Candles" is on tv. Don't tell anyone, but I like the Molly Ringwald movies. :)
Sunday, May 28, 2006
I'm Back!
I know it's been a while since I last wrote, but believe it or not, I've had nothing earth shattering to share. That has changed. School is out in three days and life is good! Now, don't mis-understand me, I love my job, it's just that summer vacation can't get here soon enough.
For those of you who don't know, I teach 9th grade English. Although, this year I am also teaching World Geography, Civics, and Free Enterprise. I made the mistake of telling my new principal I had a degree in Social Studies and English and now I am the newest Social Studies teacher at my school. It's not too bad. In fact, I like the World Geography course and the kids in my Civics & Free Enterprise class are great.
I say I'm a high-school English teacher, but the last couple of years I apparently lost my mind and took a job teaching middle school at an inner-city junior high. God, was that an experience. I also went crazy and for four months "tried" to teach 7th and 8th grade Special Ed English. I couldn't get out of there quick enough. Now, I'm happily back in the high school environment, but I digress. Summer vacation starts in three days.
I plan to give finals on Monday (tomorrow) and Tuesday (the next day) and then say good-bye to my kids for two and a half months. That's the plan. Of course, several of them will be at the school house on Wedsnesday to "help" teachers clean their rooms and pack books for the coming year. I say "help", but they mostly just want to hang out in the classrooms and talk about each other and be the teacher's friend. That's okay for some, but I personally don't need any 16 year old friends. I had 16 year old friends when I was 16 and they always got me in trouble. Chances are, things haven't changed that much.
As soon as I can leave on Wedsnesday, "I am a gone pecone." (I don't know where that crazy saying comes from, but my baby brother, Rodney, uses it all the time and I just love it.) I'm going to call Amtrak on Wedsnesday afternoon and book two seats on the train to Philadelphia and make arrangements for the dog to go to the dog hotel and then I plan to sleep for about two days. Ah, summer is looking good.
Oh no! I just looked at the school calendar and school starts early this year. We lose two weeks of vacation. Summer vacation is shrinking and it's not even here yet. This must be some kind of government plan to turn teachers into regular people with "real jobs." This isn't right! Something must be done! Of course, it won't be done during the summer. Everyone knows, teachers can't function in the summer. Wait until September and then the shit will hit the fan.
Hope you have a great summer!
For those of you who don't know, I teach 9th grade English. Although, this year I am also teaching World Geography, Civics, and Free Enterprise. I made the mistake of telling my new principal I had a degree in Social Studies and English and now I am the newest Social Studies teacher at my school. It's not too bad. In fact, I like the World Geography course and the kids in my Civics & Free Enterprise class are great.
I say I'm a high-school English teacher, but the last couple of years I apparently lost my mind and took a job teaching middle school at an inner-city junior high. God, was that an experience. I also went crazy and for four months "tried" to teach 7th and 8th grade Special Ed English. I couldn't get out of there quick enough. Now, I'm happily back in the high school environment, but I digress. Summer vacation starts in three days.
I plan to give finals on Monday (tomorrow) and Tuesday (the next day) and then say good-bye to my kids for two and a half months. That's the plan. Of course, several of them will be at the school house on Wedsnesday to "help" teachers clean their rooms and pack books for the coming year. I say "help", but they mostly just want to hang out in the classrooms and talk about each other and be the teacher's friend. That's okay for some, but I personally don't need any 16 year old friends. I had 16 year old friends when I was 16 and they always got me in trouble. Chances are, things haven't changed that much.
As soon as I can leave on Wedsnesday, "I am a gone pecone." (I don't know where that crazy saying comes from, but my baby brother, Rodney, uses it all the time and I just love it.) I'm going to call Amtrak on Wedsnesday afternoon and book two seats on the train to Philadelphia and make arrangements for the dog to go to the dog hotel and then I plan to sleep for about two days. Ah, summer is looking good.
Oh no! I just looked at the school calendar and school starts early this year. We lose two weeks of vacation. Summer vacation is shrinking and it's not even here yet. This must be some kind of government plan to turn teachers into regular people with "real jobs." This isn't right! Something must be done! Of course, it won't be done during the summer. Everyone knows, teachers can't function in the summer. Wait until September and then the shit will hit the fan.
Hope you have a great summer!
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