Funny thing is I am way ahead for my usual column on Fridays. My local readers are reading the baseball column everyone here read last week.
What to do, what to do.
So I thought about listing my favorite movies. Or I could list my favorite romantic movies. I could list favorite actors. How about if I just do a bunch of lists.
Here we go:
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Favorite Romantic Movie: Forget Paris with Billy Crystal and Debra Winger
Favorite Actors: William Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Steve Martin
Favorite Actresses: Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Katherine Hepburn, Stockard Channing, Dianne Weist
Best Movie Ever: Citizen Kane written, directed, and starring Orsen Wells
Best Family Movie: Toy Story
Best Bad Movie: Barb Wire starring the fabulous Pamela Anderson
Movie I watch whenever it shows up on TV: Tarzan voiced by Tony Goldwyn
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Movies that makes me deliriously happy for no apparent reason: Singing in the Rain and Mamma Mia
Movie that makes me cry for 20 solid minutes: A League of Their Own
What are your favorite movies or actors or actresses?
Singing in the Rain is my go-to happy movie!
I love it all but the Make Them Laugh may be my favorite sequence.
You watch way more movies than I do. I think Beetlejuice and/or Stripes is my over all favorite. The Pirates of the Caribbean series is a close second.
I watch way more movies that the regular bear.
No more crying movies! I need to watch more movies, but Hi darling, have a great weekend! c
That is the main reason I am never, ever seeing Titanic
Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart – happily, all three are wonderful in the movie The Philadelphia Story.
Great movie! What do you thin of the Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly version?
My all-time favorite is Local Hero. It’s a 1983 Scottish film about a Texas oil company that’s trying to buy a Scottish fishing village. It’s a lovely film, completely disarming, with a beautiful score by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. Burt Lancaster owns the oil company, and there’s a Russian fisherman who’s sort of been adopted by the village, and a marine scientist who might be a mermaid. I blogged about it a while back: http://wp.me/pKRJf-1ah
I do not think I have ever seen that movie.
In the Best Bad movie category, you must, must see Sharktopus. The one detriment of watching on DVD versus the SYFY presentation is that the latter has the love theme at the outset. As always, imagine greater.
Jim, but can it compare to Pamela Anderson blowing people away?
Too many to mention! Great post!
It’s hard for me to pick favorites of anything–so much depends on my mood. But the movies I’ve watched over and over (which must mean I love them) are: Michael, Best in Show, A League of Their Own, Adam and Eve, and A Christmas Story.
I love George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Carey Grant, and Gene Kelley. Actresses: Helen Meron, Meryl Streep, Meg Ryan, and Judy Holliday.
Favorite romantic movie- Crossing Delancey
I have not seen that movie in a long time.
Movie lists are so much fun to put together. I put together a montage of movies about writers or the writing life. I hope to come up with some more. Your list is inspiring me to dig a little deeper.
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CricketMuse
Good luck. I hope to visit soon and see how I might comment.
Fav movie – Princess Bride. Movie that makes me happy but also makes me cry – Shawshank Redemption……Hmmmm, now I see why this was such a great idea for a post !
I think The Princess Bride may be one of the few perfect movies out there.
Like you, I love Katherine Hepburn. The Philadelphia Story and Desk Set are two films of hers that I really enjoyed as a teenager, but in the last few years I think that Bringing Up Baby would have to be my favourite.