NUNS
Nuns are women who dedicate themselves to a lifetime of service, piety and obedience, and they have been the basis of many fine movies.
A good place to begin is Doubt (2008). Meryl Streep is the Mother Superior at a parochial school, Amy Adams is a young and naive teacher and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is the good-natured parish priest suspected of unnatural behavior. This is heady company indeed, but virtual unknown Viola Davis almost steals the movie as the mother of the possible victim. The tension builds almost to the breaking point and to a frankly surprising ending. All four of the principals were nominated for Oscars, along with writer-director John Patrick Shanley. None of them won.
Perhaps no Hollywood film has captured what it must be like to become a nun as well as The Nun’s Story (1959). This fine movie captured eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director (Fred Zinnemann). Audrey Hepburn also won for her portrayal of Sister Luke. Her training, discipline and service make a very good story. She becomes a medical nun in Africa under the tutelage of agnostic Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch).
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Whoopi Goldberg is on the run from her murderous mobster boyfriend and hiding out in a convent in Sister Act (1992). She shakes things up quite a bit as the hip new choir director and the laughs are plentiful. Not exactly a slice of life, but lots of fun. Beware the weak sequel.
A young nun may have become pregnant and may have murdered the baby in the enigmatic Agnes of God (1985). Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly and Anne Bancroft are all very good in a film with no easy answers. The opaque nature of the story line may turn some off, but the performances make it worth a look.
A nun is the central figure in perhaps the best movie about capital punishment ever made, Dead Man Walking (1995). Susan Sarandon is Sister Helen Prejean, a devoted opponent of the death penalty. Sean Penn is the unlikeable object of her efforts. Actually quite fair and balanced on a sensitive subject about which everyone has an opinion. Ms. Sarandon won the Oscar as Best Actress.
And finally I have to mention the wonderful off-Broadway play, Nunsense (1992), a howlingly funny send up of a very off-beat convent. None of the sequels are very good.
Oh, and we must remember that the accomplished Sally Field (Oscar winner for Norma Rae) got her start as The Flying Nun!
All of the films in this article are for grownups, and all are available on DVD.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
HARRY DEAN STANTON
He had a face that looked like it had worn out three or four bodies. But Harry Dean Stanton, who died recently at 91, had a great run. His career began in 1954 and spanned over 60 years. He appeared in over 100 movies and 50 TV shows. He even had a part in a still-to-be-released movie at the time of his death (Frank And Ava, now in post-production).
Wise Blood (1969), a weird movie from a weird Flannery O’Connor novel, features Bard Dourif as an anti-preacher, roaming the South spouting hateful drivel against Christianity and its followers. This film is definitely not for all tastes, but it does have a cult following. John Huston, master of weird stories, directs. Harry Dean Stanton has an excellent turn as a standard, and fraudulent, sidewalk preacher.
The Black Marble (1980) is one of the more successful adaptations of Joseph Wambaugh’s delicious cop novels. Robert Foxworth and Paula Prentiss play LA cops ordered to investigate the kidnapping of a Beverly Hills socialite’s pet dog. Harry Dean Stanton is just spot-on as the sleazy kidnapper, who runs a beauty shop for pets and desperately needs money to pay his debts.
Goldie Hawn is an Oscar nominee for Private Benjamin (1980) as a socialite adrift after her new husband dies on their wedding night. A very questionable Army recruiter, ably played by Harry Dean Stanton, convinces her that the US Army is fun and games, almost like a vacation. She quickly discovers it is not that at all, but she can’t unenlist. Her expectations meeting the reality of basic training are the stuff of high comedy.
Perhaps the capstone of Mr. Stanton’s career was his role in Paris, Texas (1984). He appears as Travis Henderson, a mute amnesiac wandering through Texas. The extremely convoluted plot involves Travis eventually finding his son and wife after four missing years. The Straight Story (1999) is one of my favorite movies you’ve probably never heard of. It is the late Richard Farnsworth’s crowning achievement. He plays Alvin,an aging man who is estranged from his brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton). Learning that Lyle has had a stroke, Alvin decides he must go visit him in the hopes of a reconciliation before Lyle dies. Since Alvin has no driver’s license, he drives the 240 mile journey on his John Deere lawn tractor!
You can also catch good HDS moments in Cool Hand Luke (1967) as one of Paul Newman’s fellow convicts, and as Molly Ringwald’s Dad in Pretty In Pink (1986). He also has a brief, but important, part in The Green Mile (1999)
All of the flims in this article are available on DVD and are for grown-ups.
He had a face that looked like it had worn out three or four bodies. But Harry Dean Stanton, who died recently at 91, had a great run. His career began in 1954 and spanned over 60 years. He appeared in over 100 movies and 50 TV shows. He even had a part in a still-to-be-released movie at the time of his death (Frank And Ava, now in post-production).
Wise Blood (1969), a weird movie from a weird Flannery O’Connor novel, features Bard Dourif as an anti-preacher, roaming the South spouting hateful drivel against Christianity and its followers. This film is definitely not for all tastes, but it does have a cult following. John Huston, master of weird stories, directs. Harry Dean Stanton has an excellent turn as a standard, and fraudulent, sidewalk preacher.
The Black Marble (1980) is one of the more successful adaptations of Joseph Wambaugh’s delicious cop novels. Robert Foxworth and Paula Prentiss play LA cops ordered to investigate the kidnapping of a Beverly Hills socialite’s pet dog. Harry Dean Stanton is just spot-on as the sleazy kidnapper, who runs a beauty shop for pets and desperately needs money to pay his debts.
Goldie Hawn is an Oscar nominee for Private Benjamin (1980) as a socialite adrift after her new husband dies on their wedding night. A very questionable Army recruiter, ably played by Harry Dean Stanton, convinces her that the US Army is fun and games, almost like a vacation. She quickly discovers it is not that at all, but she can’t unenlist. Her expectations meeting the reality of basic training are the stuff of high comedy.
Perhaps the capstone of Mr. Stanton’s career was his role in Paris, Texas (1984). He appears as Travis Henderson, a mute amnesiac wandering through Texas. The extremely convoluted plot involves Travis eventually finding his son and wife after four missing years. The Straight Story (1999) is one of my favorite movies you’ve probably never heard of. It is the late Richard Farnsworth’s crowning achievement. He plays Alvin,an aging man who is estranged from his brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton). Learning that Lyle has had a stroke, Alvin decides he must go visit him in the hopes of a reconciliation before Lyle dies. Since Alvin has no driver’s license, he drives the 240 mile journey on his John Deere lawn tractor!
You can also catch good HDS moments in Cool Hand Luke (1967) as one of Paul Newman’s fellow convicts, and as Molly Ringwald’s Dad in Pretty In Pink (1986). He also has a brief, but important, part in The Green Mile (1999)
All of the flims in this article are available on DVD and are for grown-ups.
Sunday, September 17, 2017
WHO SAID THAT? 5
Yes, yet another helping of movie quotes. These are the hardest yet. Answers at t he bottom. No cheating! If you get number 16, you’re brilliant!
1- This is really a great city. I don’t care what anyone says!
2- Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
3- I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ babies!
4- My first wife drove me to drink. I’ll always be grateful to her.
5- Years from now when you talk about this- and you will- be kind.
6- In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
7- When I die, in the newspapers they’ll write that the sons of bitches of the world have lost their leader.
8- I like to watch.
9- I’ll be back.
10- I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.
11-All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.
12- The only question I ever ask any woman is “What time is your husband coming home?”
13- Round up the usual suspects.
14- To infinity...and beyond!
15- Beulah, peel me a grape.
16- 24601.
1- Woody Allen to Diane Keaton in Manhattan (1979)
2- Jean Harlow to Ben Lyon in Hell’s Angels (1930)
3- Butterfly McQueen to Vivian Leigh in Gone With The Wind (1939)
4- W.C. Fields in Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941)
5- Deborah Kerr to John Kerr in Tea And Sympathy (1956).
6- Millie Perkins in The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)
7- Vincent Gardenia in Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
8- Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
9- Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator (1984)
10- Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
11- Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
12- Paul Newman to Patricia Neal in Hud (1963)
13- Claude Rains to his police officers in Casablanca (1942)
14- Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in Toy Story (1995)
15- Mae West to Gertrude Howard in I’m No Angel (1933)
16- Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) confessing his prison number in Les Miserables (2012)
16- Brilliant! Mensa candidate
12-15 Cinephile
9-11 Fair
Yes, yet another helping of movie quotes. These are the hardest yet. Answers at t he bottom. No cheating! If you get number 16, you’re brilliant!
1- This is really a great city. I don’t care what anyone says!
2- Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
3- I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ babies!
4- My first wife drove me to drink. I’ll always be grateful to her.
5- Years from now when you talk about this- and you will- be kind.
6- In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
7- When I die, in the newspapers they’ll write that the sons of bitches of the world have lost their leader.
8- I like to watch.
9- I’ll be back.
10- I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.
11-All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.
12- The only question I ever ask any woman is “What time is your husband coming home?”
13- Round up the usual suspects.
14- To infinity...and beyond!
15- Beulah, peel me a grape.
16- 24601.
1- Woody Allen to Diane Keaton in Manhattan (1979)
2- Jean Harlow to Ben Lyon in Hell’s Angels (1930)
3- Butterfly McQueen to Vivian Leigh in Gone With The Wind (1939)
4- W.C. Fields in Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941)
5- Deborah Kerr to John Kerr in Tea And Sympathy (1956).
6- Millie Perkins in The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)
7- Vincent Gardenia in Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
8- Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)
9- Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator (1984)
10- Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
11- Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
12- Paul Newman to Patricia Neal in Hud (1963)
13- Claude Rains to his police officers in Casablanca (1942)
14- Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) in Toy Story (1995)
15- Mae West to Gertrude Howard in I’m No Angel (1933)
16- Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) confessing his prison number in Les Miserables (2012)
16- Brilliant! Mensa candidate
12-15 Cinephile
9-11 Fair
Sunday, September 10, 2017
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. Stan Laurel to Oliver Hardy 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
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. Stan Laurel to Oliver Hardy 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
Sunday, August 20, 2017
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
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
Sunday, August 13, 2017
SAM SHEPARD
Ruggedly handsome, multi-talented Sam Shepard died recently at 73. He was a true modern day renaissance man. He wrote and directed many off-Broadway and Broadway plays, including True West and Fool For Love. He won not only a Tony, but the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child.
His filmography as an actor is varied and impressive. He knew how to pick his spots.
Shepard’s first film appearance of note is in Terence Malik’s Days Of Heaven (1978). He is billed, simply, as The Farmer. This film is more noted for its glorious cinematography than the story, but Shepard is quite convincing as a rich but dying landowner. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams scheme to entice him into a quick marriage so they can inherit the farm. From there it gets complicated.
Nobody could have played the iconic test pilot Chuck Yeager as well as Sam Shepard, and he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff (1983). He lost to Jack Nicholson for Terms Of Endearment. Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris join a stellar cast in this highly popular movie about the early days of the US space program.
Sam Shepard appeared twice in movies that are practically all-girl. They needed a manly man and he fit the part to a tee. He was Doc Porter in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias (1989). Both are excellent movies and if Shepard didn’t have a whole lot to do in them, let’s just say he did what needed to be done quite well.
Snow Falling On Cedars (1999) is a good adaptation of David Guterson’s novel of murder and racial prejudice. Ethan Hawke plays reporter Ishmael Chambers, sent to cover the trial of a young Japanese-American accused of murdering a white fisherman. Sam Shepard plays the reporter’s father, mostly in scenes of Hawke’s early childhood. There’s also a contentious subplot involving the thwarted sale of part of a farm to a Japanese-American family that has worked the land for years. When the sale is interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, things fall apart.
2007 brought about the big break for current stars Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. It also brought the film with the longest title this side of Doctor Strangelove. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is based on Ron Hansen’s excellent novel. Pitt is the legendary Jesse, Affleck the turncoat Ford, and Sam Shepard plays Jesse’s brother Frank. Oddly enough, Robert Ford became something of a folk hero for a while and even had a traveling tent show. But audiences turned on him when they learned he had shot Jesse in the back.
The stars of Mud (2012) are young Tye Sheraton and Jacob Lofland, who play two kids growing up pretty much on their own in Arkansas. Matthew McConaughey is the title character, on the run from the law and washed up on a deserted island where the boys find him and try to help him. Sam Shepard is Tom, who at first refuses to help Mud but later lends a hand (ok, a gun) when things get hairy.
All of the films in this article are available on DVD. All are for grown-ups.
Ruggedly handsome, multi-talented Sam Shepard died recently at 73. He was a true modern day renaissance man. He wrote and directed many off-Broadway and Broadway plays, including True West and Fool For Love. He won not only a Tony, but the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child.
His filmography as an actor is varied and impressive. He knew how to pick his spots.
Shepard’s first film appearance of note is in Terence Malik’s Days Of Heaven (1978). He is billed, simply, as The Farmer. This film is more noted for its glorious cinematography than the story, but Shepard is quite convincing as a rich but dying landowner. Richard Gere and Brooke Adams scheme to entice him into a quick marriage so they can inherit the farm. From there it gets complicated.
Nobody could have played the iconic test pilot Chuck Yeager as well as Sam Shepard, and he garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff (1983). He lost to Jack Nicholson for Terms Of Endearment. Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris join a stellar cast in this highly popular movie about the early days of the US space program.
Sam Shepard appeared twice in movies that are practically all-girl. They needed a manly man and he fit the part to a tee. He was Doc Porter in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Spud Jones in Steel Magnolias (1989). Both are excellent movies and if Shepard didn’t have a whole lot to do in them, let’s just say he did what needed to be done quite well.
Snow Falling On Cedars (1999) is a good adaptation of David Guterson’s novel of murder and racial prejudice. Ethan Hawke plays reporter Ishmael Chambers, sent to cover the trial of a young Japanese-American accused of murdering a white fisherman. Sam Shepard plays the reporter’s father, mostly in scenes of Hawke’s early childhood. There’s also a contentious subplot involving the thwarted sale of part of a farm to a Japanese-American family that has worked the land for years. When the sale is interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, things fall apart.
2007 brought about the big break for current stars Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt. It also brought the film with the longest title this side of Doctor Strangelove. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is based on Ron Hansen’s excellent novel. Pitt is the legendary Jesse, Affleck the turncoat Ford, and Sam Shepard plays Jesse’s brother Frank. Oddly enough, Robert Ford became something of a folk hero for a while and even had a traveling tent show. But audiences turned on him when they learned he had shot Jesse in the back.
The stars of Mud (2012) are young Tye Sheraton and Jacob Lofland, who play two kids growing up pretty much on their own in Arkansas. Matthew McConaughey is the title character, on the run from the law and washed up on a deserted island where the boys find him and try to help him. Sam Shepard is Tom, who at first refuses to help Mud but later lends a hand (ok, a gun) when things get hairy.
All of the films in this article are available on DVD. All are for grown-ups.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
WHO SAID THAT? Part 2
The last “who said that” column was so popular (okay three people kind of mentioned it in passing), that I decided to do another. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!
1. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
2. You talkin’ to me?
3. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
4. Show me the money!
5. I want to be alone.
6. Round up the usual suspects.
7. Plastics.
8. I see dead people.
9. We rob banks.
10. Well, nobody’s perfect!
11. You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
12. I can’t do that, Dave.
13. Where’s the rest of me?
14. You can’t handle the truth!
15. You had me at hello.
ANSWERS
1. Marlon Brando to assorted thugs in The Godfather
2. Robert DeNiro to an unfortunate bystander in Taxi Driver
3. Strother Martin to a shackled Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
4. Cuba Gooding, Jr. to wannabe agent Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
5. Greta Garbo to everybody in Grand Hotel
6. Claude Rains to the police chief in Casablanca
7. Walter Brooke’s career advice to a puzzled Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
8. Haley Joel Osment to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
9. Warren Beatty explaining his vocation in Bonnie And Clyde
10. Joe E. Brown on discovering Jack Lemon is actually a guy in Some Like It Hot
11. Peter Sellers to battling bureaucrats in Dr. Strangelove
12. HAL the computer’s chilling answer to Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Ronald Reagan (yes, him!) on discovering his legs have been amputated in Kings Row
14. Jack Nicholson to Demi Moore in A Few Good Men. (He was wrong.)
15. Renee Zellwegger to Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
12-15 Cinephile
8-11 Fair
The last “who said that” column was so popular (okay three people kind of mentioned it in passing), that I decided to do another. Answers at the bottom. No cheating!
1. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
2. You talkin’ to me?
3. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
4. Show me the money!
5. I want to be alone.
6. Round up the usual suspects.
7. Plastics.
8. I see dead people.
9. We rob banks.
10. Well, nobody’s perfect!
11. You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
12. I can’t do that, Dave.
13. Where’s the rest of me?
14. You can’t handle the truth!
15. You had me at hello.
ANSWERS
1. Marlon Brando to assorted thugs in The Godfather
2. Robert DeNiro to an unfortunate bystander in Taxi Driver
3. Strother Martin to a shackled Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
4. Cuba Gooding, Jr. to wannabe agent Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
5. Greta Garbo to everybody in Grand Hotel
6. Claude Rains to the police chief in Casablanca
7. Walter Brooke’s career advice to a puzzled Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate
8. Haley Joel Osment to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense
9. Warren Beatty explaining his vocation in Bonnie And Clyde
10. Joe E. Brown on discovering Jack Lemon is actually a guy in Some Like It Hot
11. Peter Sellers to battling bureaucrats in Dr. Strangelove
12. HAL the computer’s chilling answer to Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Ronald Reagan (yes, him!) on discovering his legs have been amputated in Kings Row
14. Jack Nicholson to Demi Moore in A Few Good Men. (He was wrong.)
15. Renee Zellwegger to Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire
12-15 Cinephile
8-11 Fair
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