Episode 265: Shout-outs, Happy Birthday Donna, RIP Davy Jones, movies (Bet: The Artist; Hugo, Stennie: True Grit (2010), Where’s BOB?, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That?, YouTube Video of the Week, Earworm of the Week, Stennie’s Yay Moment, Thing That Doesn’t Fit, Fuck Offs and You Rules, Celebrities Both Sexes Love.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra; “Movies” bumper by Duke.
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The year I lived in England we actually read To Kill a Mockingbird in my english class. It put me in kind of a weird position, I became reigning expert in all things American so I could help with pronunciations and definitions and things (I had also read the book the year before in my freshman english class in the U.S., so I already knew what a chiffarobe was) but I also felt like they were thinking “boy is her country messed up.” To that I say: “Anything by Charles Dickens.” Ha!
Stennie – if you still haven’t seen Hugo yet, and you have the opportunity, PLEASE do yourself a huge favor and see it in 3D. What Bet says is right, the movie is visually stunning (and it was MY pick for Best Picture, even though I do love Uggie) but so much more so in 3D. Martin so obviously considered that film technique in every single frame he shot, and it is amazing. It will turn those boring “people walking through the train station” scenes into a whole ‘nother thing.
My computer plays a few notes when I wake it up that form the opening chord to the Beatles’ Lady Madonna, so I get THAT stuck in my head all the time. Maybe something like that is where you get Roxette from?
Don’t forget about Spring Forward!
We watched Hey Boo this week and really enjoyed it. Thanks for reviewing it because otherwise we probably wouldn’t have known about it. It was neat hearing all those people so passionate about To Kill a Mockingbird.
Last week’s topic was kinda hard to define. I think it’s hard to generalize for an entire gender. I would like to think everyone likes the four Dames, Julie Andrews, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench and Maggie Smith. I don’t think everyone likes Tina Fay. Love Tom Hanks. Used to like Tom Selleck, then hated him because of his pro-gun politics but he’s really good on Blue Bloods. I don’t like Jennifer Aston and I don’t feel sorry for her; why does she have to end up in a romantic relationship with all of her co-stars? Reese Witherspoon is cute but may not be as well-known. William H Macy is a great actor but it’s hard to get past some of the creepy characters he plays….but that’s what makes him good.
Oh – I have to weigh in about the girl scouts. I was a part of that organization from Pixies to Cadettes. We moved just before I was to start Brownies, which I attended in Connecticut. Brownies met in a church basement. We had to say grace before juice and cookies, and we made gods eyes in crafts at least once.
And let’s not forget the girl scout pledge: On my honor, I will try, to serve god, my country and mankind, and to live by the girl scout law. See, god.
By the time we moved to Illinois, when I was a full-fledged girl scout, the praying went away, but the pledge stayed the same. I can see why Krizzer was hinky about the god stuff at girl scouts.
Very nice, subtle comment there, Stenns. I don’t know if Bet even caught it. “We drank juice, but we didn’t drink any kool-aid. Love it!
About whiskey and hot chocolate – a comment that should have been made last week. The whiskey is Buchanan’s scotch whiskey – 12 years old.
Banned books – Huck Finn was on our reading list in 7th grade, but we ended up not reading it, as it had been banned after the reading list was published. We did read TKAM though, and we watched the movie. I loved it.
Bet – I want to know what made you hinky about the Artist. If Stennie has seen it, will you tell the rest of us?
Please add a fuck off to HFC this week? She hasn’t done anything recently, but I’m just so angry at her and I want to rip her face off. Thank you.
Eva Longoria, Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock are all beautiful and seem like nice women so women like them or want to be them and men are attracted to them. A big thumbs down to Jennifer Aniston who is well past her sell-by-date for playing romantic leads; she’s old enough to be the mother of the romantic lead. FYI, I was listening to the podcast while looking up the bio of John Barrowman who, I don’t know if men like, but I think he is very gorgeous.
Yes, we had Frango mints in Chicago. We were plied with free samples when dining in The Walnut Room at Marshall Field’s (Macy’s). The sales technique worked because we then went and bought four boxes, including a souvenir holiday tin.
I was a Girl Guide from Brownie through Ranger, only quitting when I left high school and went to nursing school. I even went to summer camp as a leader while I was in nursing school. We are a big Scout and Guide family — one sister helped run a Brownie pack while the other helped run a Cub pack. My Dad was a Cub Scout leader and my Mum is still a proud Trefold Guild member and badge tester. We didn’t pray at meetings but went to church once a month in uniform with the other uniformed organizations and paraded the colors.
I’m not sure what it says about me, but I don’t get the appeal of Angelina Jolie. At all. As an actress, as eye candy, whatever. If anything, I find her look distracting; everything about her, real or not, seems “done.”
Julia Roberts is another whose charms elude me, though not to the extend of Angelina. But little of her goes a long way. I did like her in Erin Brockovich, though I tend to think of that as a more of a Soderbergh film that she happens to star in.
Some men I think fit your criteria: Alec Baldwin, Burt Reynolds, John Cusack, and Hugh Grant.
Women that everybody loves: Bonnie Hunt, Joan Cusack. (And total agreeance on Sandra Bullock; I had her written down before you mentioned her.)
One more thing about scouting…….I rose to the level of Queen’s Guide, the equivalent of Eagle Scouts here in America (I know that is for boys but I can’t think of the top level for girls here.)
I liked the topic about actors liked by both sexes. I would add Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Fisher, Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis (back in the day, before the Activia ads) Jack Nicholson, Will Smith, Jude Law, and Elvis Presley.
As for Reese Witherspoon – I hate her. I hate the movies she’s in. She’s a turnoff.
I’m not so sure women liked Goldie in the day, because she was a dumb blonde that men all wanted to bonk. Maybe that’s different now.
Zooey – I have no feelings about her at all.
I’m not so sure about Magnum. My father thought he was effeminate.
Ohhh, and I totally agree with Mr. Middlebrow on Alec Baldwin. Good choice!