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John’s Favorite 1990’s Movies

18 Tuesday Feb 2020

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1990: Pretty Woman I always dreamed of Richard Gere, (or some other generic salt-and-pepper daddy), to sweep me off my feet and carry me away.

1991: My Own Private Idaho

1992: Fried Green Tomatoes

1993: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

1994: Fresh Superbly well-written and acted, a chess prodigy making real-life moves to save his and his sister’s lives

1995: Pulp Fiction

1996: Fargo

1997: The Ice Storm “The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut, upper-class families who are trying to deal with tumultuous social changes of the early 1970’s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation.” *starring one of my earliest, longest lasting crushes: Henry Czerny

1998: As Good as it Gets

1999: Shakespeare in Love

1996: Basquiat My most honorable mention and my favorite modern artist, with David Bowie as Andy Warhol

Other favorites: The Object of My Affection, The Joy Luck Club, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Grace of My Heart, (I was in love with Bruce Davison, right along with Illeana Douglas), Corrina, Corrina, White Men Can’t Jump, Crooklyn, Sabrina, Reality Bites, Poetic Justice, Muriel’s Wedding

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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Maybe my favorite all-time documentary #upintheholler

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The Bird Box – Josh Malerman

06 Monday Aug 2018

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I finished this fantastic book last night, and like great books often do, I was wound-up tight and then in tears as the final scene unfolded. So good, different, unique! The Bird Box movie is coming out in late 2018, with Sarah Paulsen, John Malkovich, and Machine Gun Kelly, starring Sandra Bullock as Malorie, but read the book first! Josh Malerman’s descriptive writing style shakes the reader’s visual imagination by introducing us to a  dangerous and challenging new world.

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can’t lift their heads to gaze upon them?”

“You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.”

“Robin was a great kid. Smarter than her father at eight years old. She liked the oddest things. Like the instructions for a toy more than the toy itself. The credits of a movie instead of the movie. The way something was written. An expression on my face. Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, ‘No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it’s dark outside.”

“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”

“It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

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T’Challa on Black Jeopardy

21 Monday May 2018

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actor, antifa, avengers, black lives matter, black panther, Broadway, comedy, entertainment, gay, gay marriage, Gay Rights, humor, LGBT, movies, News, television, theater

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Your Girl is Lovely Hubble

25 Saturday Nov 2017

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John: Katie/Carrie  David: I hope not Hubble/Mr. Big

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American Honey

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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Young and fresh and so different! Sasha Lane was getting some (small) Oscar buzz, and I live for the fantastic Riley Keough (the Girlfriend Experience and Elvis’s granddaughter)…amazingly still very good with loser Labeouf in some scenes (he def ain’t the star)

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I Got Rhythm – Dorothy Dandridge/Halle Berry

15 Thursday Sep 2016

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Dorothy/Halle telling all them white folks to kiss her ass!

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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

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I have never had a movie make me this emotional, I am bawling like a baby…please everyone watch this documentary tonight or as soon as possible! I really feel it was a bit life changing for me.

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Sing Street

05 Tuesday Jul 2016

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A great little movie for music lover’s everywhere, set in Ireland, also a sweet story about a boy’s first love. From the creative team of the Broadway hit Once…made me feel good and I sang along with our young hero.

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The Green Room

05 Tuesday Jul 2016

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A great movie, dips into the Pacific Northwest music scene, has some killer pitbulls, lots of blood and mayhem, my future ex-husband Patrick Stewart as the villain…also one of Anton Yelchin’s last movies before he died.

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Sweet Brown is going to Broadway!!!

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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12 Years a Slave, Adam Driver, ain't nobody got time for dat, atlanta, Barkhad Abdi, Broadway, buy John's book on Amazon $3.99, Captain Phillips, funny, gay, humor, LGBT, Matt Damon, pop culture, Queen Latifah, sweet brown, Tampa Bay, theater

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Shadow Dancing, to make Simon Cowell cry

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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This is one of the dance troupe member’s story, the loss of his mother

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Jared Leto

02 Sunday Mar 2014

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“To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to to say we are here, and as you struggle to make your dreams happen and live the impossible, we are thinking of you tonight.”

“This is for the 36 million people who have lost the battle to AIDS. And to those of you who have ever felt injustice because of who you are and who you love, I stand here in front of the world with you and for you.”

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

27 Thursday Feb 2014

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A 2000 comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film’s story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey.

Sirens had the gift of singing in a very seductive manner. Sailors were enchanted by their voice and condemned to stay on their island forever and die. All over the island of the Faiakes, there were bones of sailors who weren’t able to resist the Sirens’ divine melody.

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I am Lauren Bacall

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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I am Lauren Bacall

I took Playbuzz’s “Which Hollywood Bombshell Are You?”

You love the 1940s and film noir. You’re partial to an older beau, but you are smart and in control. You are beautiful, but wouldn’t describe yourself as a pin-up girl. You’re the wonderful Lauren Bacall!

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Synecdoche – Philip Seymour Hoffman

02 Sunday Feb 2014

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In honor of Philip’s passing, here is an introduction to one of his lesser known but brilliant roles. I found Synecdoche frustrating and confusing and complex and layered and rewarding to watch.
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American postmodern drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was Kaufman’s directorial debut.
The plot follows an ailing theater director (Hoffman) as he works on an increasingly elaborate stage production whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality.The film’s title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, and the concept of Synecdoche, wherein a part of something represents the whole, or vice versa.

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Porgy & Bess

20 Monday Jan 2014

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Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin’ Life, the drug dealer.
The song “Summertime” is the best-known selection from Porgy and Bess. Other popular and frequently recorded songs from the opera include “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now”, “I Loves You, Porgy” and “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin'”. The opera is admired for Gershwin’s innovative synthesis of European orchestral techniques with American jazz and folk music idioms.

I thoroughly enjoyed this play, and I’m glad I went. The play itself was good, not great, but getting dressed up and going on a fancy date with a gentleman admirer was very cool. After all, my New Year’s resolution for 2014 was to be more cultured and whatnot. I ran into Starbucks to get us some coffee before heading across the bridge, and they were playing Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out” which I thought was perfect.

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Frozen River

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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Chocolat

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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A magically sweet fairy tale…

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Smash Cancelled!!?!

14 Tuesday May 2013

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I was already depressed…this news is gonna make me go become a cutter or something 😦

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Sense and Sensibility – Yours

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.”

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Sense and Sensibility – Love is not Love

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
Oh no, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests
and is never shaken”

Willoughby breaks Marianne’s heart, she almost dies after he deserts her…

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Summertime – 1955

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

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Piazza San Marco

I fell in love with the beautiful Rossano Brazzi right along with Katharine Hepburn, even though I knew he was going to break our (her) heart. We (Katharine & I) fell in love with Venice as well.

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