WHO SAID THAT? 

                                                                    Part 4

Yet another fun (I hope!) quiz about famous movie quotes. This one may be a little harder than the previous ones. Answers at the bottom. No peeking!

1. Oh, Jerry, don’t ask for the moon. We have the stars.

2. One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.

3. A boy’s best friend is his mother.

4. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

5. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.

6. Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!

7. Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?

8. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

9. Here’s Johnny!

10. They’re here!

11. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. 

12. Hello, gorgeous.

13. Tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

14. A martini. Shaken, not stirred. 

15. I’m king of the world!

ANSWERS

1. Bette Davis to Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager (1942)

2. Groucho Marx (who else?) to everyone in Animal Crackers (1930)

3. The extremely creepy Anthony Perkins to Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)

4. Michael Douglas to Charlie Sheen in Wall Street (1987)

5. Vivian Leigh to the whole wide world in Gone With The Wind (1939)

6. Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel  in Sons Of The Desert (1933)

7. Dustin Hoffman to Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)

8. Humphrey Bogart to Dooley Wilson in Casablanca (1942)

9. Jack Nicholson to his terrorized family in The Shining (1980)

10. Heather O’Rourke (the little girl) to the family in Poltergeist (1982)

11. Vivian Leigh to Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

12. Barbra Streisand to Omar Sharif in Funny Girl (1968)

13. Ronald Reagan ( yes, him!) to Pat O’Brien in Knute Rockne, All-American (1940)

14. Sean Connery to a bartender in Goldfinger (1964)

15. Leonardo DiCaprio to Kate Winslett in Titanic (1997)

12-15 Cinephile

9-12 Fair

                                                                ANNE HECHE

        Poor Anne Heche died at only 53 years old as a result of a tragic automobile accident. She had lots of good parts, and lots of work. In fact, she had around eight projects running at the time of her death. Here’s a look at her cinematic highlights.

    She portrays young attorney Beth in Return To Paradise (1998). Three men are vacationing in Malaysia when they buy marijuana from a local. Tony and Sheriff return to New York but Lewis remains behind. Beth tells them Lewis has been arrested and is imprisoned and will receive the death sentence unless they return to share the blame. After they return she reveals that Lewis is her brother and she has been playing them. Things don’t go well in the Malaysian court and Lewis is sentenced to die.

In Six Days, Seven Nights Heche plays Robin, a high end fashion photgrapher. She and her fiancé Frank (David Schwimmer) go on vacation to a tropical island. She hires rough-hewn bush pilot Quinn (Harrison Ford) to fly her to a photo shoot. Their plane crashes on an uninhabited island in a storm. There are pirates and other adventures. 

Wag The Dog (1997) stars Anne Heche as a presidential aide tasked with diverting public attention from a sex scandal involving her boss. She hires spin doctor Conrad (Robert DeNiro) who in turn employs film director Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman). They concoct a fake news show about a fake war in Albania and the media buys it. Best line: “Of course it’s true- I saw it on TV”. 

Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an undercover cop who infiltrates the Mafia for the FBI. His marriage to Maggie (Anne Heche) becomes more and more shaky as he advances further into the mob. He uses the assumed name Donnie Brasco (1997) and succeeds spectacularly. Though his marriage suffers due to his lengthy absences and the stress of his job, his Maggie sticks with him. They are still a couple at the end, living in an undisclosed location with a half million dollar price on his head. 

The Juror (1996) is based on George Dawes Green’s crackerjack novel of the same name. Annie (Demi Moore) is selected as a juror trying a mafia hit man. She is threatened into voting to acquit and the mob decides she is now a loose end and has to go. Her friend Juliet (Anne Heche) pays the ultimate price for their friendship. Annie and her son try to hide from the mob in Guatemala but don’t completely succeed. 

Anne Heche  can also be seen to good effect as Brooke in tOpening Night (2016), and as Joan in the very complicated but enjoyable Cedar Rapids (2011).

All of the movies in this article are available on DVD. All are for adults.

                                                                 2021 SLEEPERS

                                                                         Part 3

Here’s another bunch of films from last year that are quite good but didn’t get noticed much. You might find one or two to try.

The Duke is one of my favorites from 2021. I was able to watch it only recently but it’s widely available now. It stars two of the absolute icons of British movies: Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. They are the Buntons. She is hardly recognizable as the dowdy, stodgy housewife. He is the pocket socialist who decides to make things better for the poor by stealing Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the British Museum and distributing  the reward money. Of course he gets caught and the fun part of the film is his trial in the Old Bailey. And- it’s hard to believe, but this film is based on a true story!

How great would it be for a woman to have a boyfriend who fulfilled her every want and need, almost before she wants it? Actually it may not be as great as it sounds. In I’m Your Man, scientist Alma agrees to evaluate a robot programmed to satisfies her every need. And he does. Handsome, charming, sensitive Tom’s only drawback is that he is not a human being. Alma’s reactions might not be what we think ours would be. Or maybe they would?

    Well, of course in this same article we have to review I’m Your Woman, which is absolutely nothing like the prior film. Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is married to Eddie, a professional thief. They have long wanted children but haven’t been able to conceive. One day Eddie comes home with a baby he says they can have and raise. Eddie vanishes and a colleague gives Jean a bag of money and tells her to relocate at once. She does so, taking baby Harry with her. As you might guess, it ain’t over!

The Water Man is a modern fairy tale in which tweens Gunner and Jo go on a search for the mythical title character, in the hope he can cure Gunner’s mom of her lethal leukemia. Their trek through an enchanted forest is fraught with peril. The ending may not suit everybody, but it is at least interesting. 

Strangely enough, this year’s sleepers contain two movies about truffles. Pig with Nicholas Cage is reviewed in an earlier sleepers column. The Truffle Hunters is an Italian documentary about old guys who hunt the epicurean treats. These men use specially trained dogs to find the elusive truffles. The white Alba truffles they seek are extremely rare and valuable and have resisted all efforts to cultivate them. 

All of the movies in this article are available on DVD. All except I’m Your Woman are okay for all ages, though kids probably won’t care for most of them.  

                                                     WHO SAID THAT? 

                     Part 3

Here’s another installment of famous quotes from movies for you to test your trivia IQ, or just to have a little fun. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!

1- I coulda been a contender.

2- Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothing yet!

3- I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

4- Love means never having to say you’re sorry.

5- I am your father.

6- Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

7- I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!

8- I am big! It’s the pictures that got small.

9- Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?

10- After all, tomorrow is another day.

11- You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

12- You’re gonna need a bigger boat!

13- I’ll be back.

14- Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

15- If you build it, he will come. 

ANSWERS:

1- Marlon Brando to Lee J. Cobb in On The Waterfront

2- Al Jolson to the audience in The Jazz Singer (first talking movie!)

3- Robert Duvall as Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now

4- The dying Ali McGraw to Ryan O’Neal in Love Story

5- Darth Vader (David Prowse body, James Earl Jones voice) to an astonished Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in Star Wars

6- James Cagney to Margaret Whycherly (his ma) in White Heat

7- Peter Finch as crazy newsman Howard Beale in Network

8- Gloria Swanson to William Holden in Sunset Boulevard

9- Mae West to Cary Grant in She Done Him Wrong

10- Vivan Leigh to the world at large in Gone With The Wind

11- Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart in To Have And Have Not

12- Roy Scheider to Robert Shaw in Jaws

13- Arnold Schwartzenegger to a cop in a police station in The Terminator

14- Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in The Pride Of The Yankees

15- A mysterious voice to Kevin Costner in Field Of Dreams (he came)

12-15 Cinephile

9-11 Fair