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movies, tv

We Didn't NEED Dialogue. We Had Faces!
It's been a good weekend for old timey movies. Turner Classics ran Sunset Boulevard and Philadelphia Story. I'd never seen either. Sunset's a little cheese--with the exception of some good diva lines (as above), but Philadelphia Story is fantastic. How can it not with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn AND Jimmy Stewart. Everyone's so clever and charming--

Macaulay Connor: Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven. Either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me.
C. K. Dexter Haven: Shall we toss a coin?

~*~
C. K. Dexter Haven: Sometimes, for your own sake, Red, I think you should've stuck to me longer.
Tracy Lord: I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon.
C. K. Dexter Haven: Aaah, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recrimination, just a good swift left to the jaw.

~*~
Tracy Lord: You haven't switched from liquor to dope, by any chance, have you Dexter?

~*~
Macaulay Connor: I would sell my grandmother for a drink - and you know how I love my grandmother.

~*~
Tracy Lord: Only for the moment, I'm not interested in myself.
C. K. Dexter Haven: Not interested in yourself? Red, you're fascinated. You're far and away your favorite person in the world.

~*~
Tracy Lord: Dexter, would you mind doing something for me?
C. K. Dexter Haven: Anything. What?
Tracy Lord: Get the heck out of here.

Dexter Haven & Macaulay Connor. They had some fantastic names in those old movies.

DUDE! I just saw the trailer for the new Ninja Turtles movie. It looks pretty good. Fav line from the trailer: Aren't you cute. You want a butt-kickin' little fella?

Watched some BBC America this weekend while I was cleaning up. I'm going to have to start watching "Hardware." It's got Tim from the British version of The Office (and Love Actually & Hitchhiker's Guide) and just the brief commercial I saw got me interested:

The day after Mike has constructed an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys in his bedroom.
Mike: Apparently she wanted to be tied gently with silk scarves.
Kenny: But she could escape!
Mike: Exactly! That's what I told her!

Just the idea that boys think the concept of escape even enters into it...

Speaking of the weirdness of boys--I don't know if anybody else watches "Rob & Big" but it does offer some entertaining moments, like this bit, directed at Rob's smelly bulldog: "Start taking responsibility for your own smell!" I think it would probably help if they stopped smelling the dog's butt. Just my opinion.