Your Kiss is On My List
Cat, as a token of my gratitude, I'd like to invite you to join me at this convention. I think you'd be quite comfortable there. We could spend some quality time with the wonderful people from PETA. By the way, did I mention that I got tickets to go see Ted Nugent in August [wink wink].
There are too many unpleasant things happening in the world today. Job hiring was down in May in the United States to its lowest level since September, 2001, "Deepthroat" was uncovered, President Bush continues to offer a tepid defense for the United States' presence in Iraq, and Monster-in-Law (starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda) was just a blockbuster hit. Things are bad. But here's the topper:
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html
Not only do the philistines at Time neglect to list The Passion of Joan of Arc (1929), The Wizard of Oz (1939), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Network (1976) or Annie Hall (1977), they also ignore the following masterpieces: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Flashdance (1983), Footloose (1984), Top Gun (1986) and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). The two Dicks (Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel) who wrote this obviously have no appreciation for great cinema, and/or their film vocabulary is woefully inadequate. What say you, Cat?
posted by holly go-heavily @ 3:16 PM
5 Comments:
Only boyz like FT@RH. What's up w/ that gurl?
Zipper Lips, interesting comment ... Very few mainstream Hollywood films are directed by women who are or were not movie stars before becoming directors (you are Penny Marshall, Barbara Streisand, Ron Howard, etc.). "Fast Times" was directed by a woman, Amy Heckerling, and, while it has many moments for the dudes ("That was my skull, I'm so wasted"...), it is essentially a film about a teenage girl (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is learning to "grow up." Her story is the most serious (she does get herself an abortion during the course of the movie)--the boys' experiences in the film are trivial by comparison. Yeah, more o' my ladyfriendz should love this movie!
PS, that should read:
Very few mainstream Hollywood films are directed by women who are or were movie stars before they became directors
Girl, you are talking, but you ain't saying nothing. (Shut it, I know there is a double negative there, but "anything" just ruins the flow).
All anyone remembers about that movie is boobs and carrots. It's OK though, sister. Your tactic to end your loneliness by currying favor with boys by claiming to love FT is cute.
That film does manage to make a horrible song like "Moving in Stereo" by the Cars sound boob-tastic.
What, and you forgot the scene where Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Leigh are in the pizza shop, talking about how long it takes for their boyfriends to "climax" while cutting a huge piece of sausage with a butcher knife? How's that for some MacKinnon-era feminism ... :)
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