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Category Archives: Movies
Extra, Extra! My First Big Break!(?)
When I was a junior in college, I dropped out of Hofstra University. I was tired of being on an assembly line, romantically ambivalent, the usz — another blog for another day. Bottom line, I took this time to Pursue … Continue reading
Posted in AcTING!, Celebrities, Movies, Theater
Tagged Acting, Al Pacino, Caruso steam rollers, Charlize Theron, Craig T. Nelson, downtown manhattan, extra work, Hofstra University, Jeffrey Jones, Keanu Reeves, Monica Keena, rain, spoiler alert, The Devil's Advocate, The guy from The Jeffersons, Valentine's Day
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Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 3: The Beverly Hillbillies
There are many directions in which I thought of taking my review of “The Beverly Hillbillies” movie. From 1993, in case there was another besides the TV show. Like when people talk about “The Parent Trap” and mean the new … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies
Tagged boink, bowling alley scenes in oil movies, Chloris Leachman, Dabney Coleman, Dolly Parton, Ellie Mae, Encino Man, Eric Stoltz, frustrated English major, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Jethro, Lea Thompson, Lily Tomlin, monkeys ftw, pow, Quidditch snitch, Rm w/a Vu, Seavers' garage sale, Shasta, Steel Magnolias, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Boy Who Could Fly, The Parent Trap, The Stand, There Will Be Blood, Trashcan Man, zing
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Hope Riding High: My Top 10 ’80s Fist-Pumping Movie Songs!
So this has been a big, controversial year full of politics and rage. An election and a rejection. Fights. Fear. A collapsing economy. I figured out why. It’s simply been too long since we had great, motivating songs in our … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music
Tagged '80s, Back to the Future, Beverly Hills Cop, Burning Heart, Danger Zone, Dokken, Dream Warriors, Eye of the Tiger, fist pumping, Footloose, Glenn Frey, Huey Lewis and the News, Iron Eagle, Joe Esposito, John Parr, Karate Kid, Kenny Loggins, King Kobra, Man In Motion, Michael J. Fox, motivating songs, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Patricia Arquette, Rocky III, Rocky IV, St. Elmo's Fire, Survivor, The Power of Love, Top Gun, You're the Best! Around!
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Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 2: Stick It
So last week I wrote about “Graduation Day,” and this week had the opportunity to watch yet another cheesy movie and I must say that Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night is a very satisfying way to start the week. I think … Continue reading
Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Friends, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, School, Sports, Women
Tagged Baby-Sitters Club, badassery, friendships, gymnastics, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Jeff Bridges, leaps and bounds, relationship issues, Stick It, talking, tears, women
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Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 1: Graduation Day
“The seniors at Midville High are DYING TO GRADUATE…” $3.99. Obviously, I needed to buy this movie. Or rather, convince my friend to buy it since I was sans cash. Though I would have sold myself on the street to … Continue reading
Posted in Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, Supernatural :o, Women
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An Unstoppable Force
It was a year ago today. Across the floor, in the art studio, everyone buzzing that someone had died. Then I heard “Heath Ledger” and my heart dropped. My brain started vibrating and ringing and all I could make out … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Driving & Other Transportation, Movies, Superheroes/Villains
Tagged artist, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
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In Defence of Spidey
Click here for part one! One day at Boulder Creek, I was the only girl working a lunch shift. The guys were all engaged in this animated argument that was traveling throughout the restaurant. They’d fight, take care of their … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, TV, Women
Tagged Batman, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Comics, Dawson's Creek, Imaginary Boyfriends, Iron Man, Love, Mary Jane, nice guys finish last, Peter Parker, relationships, Spider-Man, Superheroes, Superman, The Flash, Tony Stark
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Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 19: Drive-Thru
“Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of ‘Hella-Burger,’ starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell.” How could such a description leave any doubt in my mind that “Drive-Thru” was my Cheesy … Continue reading
Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 6: Killer Klowns From Outer Space
“Killer Klowns From Outer Space” is one of the greatest movies ever made. Obviously. It starts out with Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” buying some “Beer,” labeled thusly. Ralphie has also been by the Seavers’ garage sale, and is wearing … Continue reading
This House…Is Clean?
(And so the hauntings conclude (FOR NOW), not with a bang, but a whimper (TM my boy T.S.). So when I was living in my second Merrick apartment (the one before the current Levittown one), I remember trying to download … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Supernatural :o, TV
Tagged anthropomorphize, Appetite for Destruction, Bloodhound virus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Calvin and Hobbes, Children of Bodom, David Byrne, Gilmore Girls, Haunting, iPod, iTunes, Like Humans Do, LOST, Merrick, mix CD, monkey movies, Rilo Kiley, T. S. Eliot, Tara Maclay, Veronica Mars, Windows Media Player
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