HazelFlagg

My top 20 leading ladies in American film uo to 1976. Love them without reservations. Here they are and why. Thread. 1/20 Besides her thousand obvious qualities, Carole didn’t adjust to the world, it was the world that adjusted to her.

Watching Pretty in Pink for the first time (I guess back then I tried to avoid films about kids my age- I felt grown up). Now I seem to settle for anything. 😜

One movie a day for 365 days. 206/365. Hustle. A cop and a hooker dreaming of escaping the sleaze Los Angeles flops in their faces and starting a life they'll never have. A bitter look at contemporaneity, a neo-noir for the ages. I wish there were half as many adult films today.

Rewatching About Last Night 40 years later. It's not bad at all, although that ending is a bit "la vie en rose." (Also: it took 40 years for so many people to find out that Demi Moore can act. Too bad they realized it when the wrong film came along.) (Also: Rob Lowe is so yummy)

One movie a day for 365 days. 209/365. Body Heat or how Kathleen Turner, whose body is a deadly weapon, coaxes everybody into mischief and crime and gets away with murder. This is one of a kind: crime does pay. Great work also from Lawrence Kasdan and William Hurt.

It's their week. Both born within a few days (and a few years apart).

Good morning. And some perfection.

Fun fact about Torch Song. In her boudoir, Claudette Colbert has three portraits hanging on the wall. They are Miriam Hopkins, Silvia Sidney and Carole Lombard. Funny way to decorate your apartment. Your colleagues under contract at the same studio.

One movie a day for 365 days. 208/365. The funniest and most frustrating of noirs, The Big Sleep gives you a headache if you try to figure out who killed whom and why, but makes you laugh and how ("She was trying to sit on my lap while I was standing up"). Mr. Hawks loved comedy.

And whoever liked him, had good taste.

Carole had great taste. Good morning.

One movie a day for 365 days. 207/365. If you like it subtle, don't go anywhere near What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Bette Davis' show as a crazy freak scaring the hell out of her "regular," crippled sister forced into a wheelchair. Double pleasure, since the victim is Joan C.

Have fun with this wonderful thread.

Now reading Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show for the first time. Since the movie is an ever-lasting masterpiece, I figured I could not go wrong going for the source. It's a hell of a book too. P.S. Was I lured by Cybill being on the cover of the Penguin edition?

25.000 people following me! I really can't believe it, but here's Carole raising a glass to all of you. Thanks.

Looks like I'm stuck watching other people's love stories. Cameron Crowe's debut feature, Say Anything, is pretty good.

Rewatching As Good As It Gets. I can't describe how much I keep on loving this film, even now that I'm a bitter person, almost as batty as Nicholson's character. Maybe it's that buoyant feeling -there's hope for anyone- that makes me like it. JN, Hunt, and Kinnear are top-notch.

Good morning.

Rewatching The Rain People. For a while I was not sure whether I was liking it or not. Then it gets overwrought, kind of melodramatic. Too much.

One movie a day for 365 days. 205/365. The book is good, the movie is better. Such is the case for Wyler's Carrie, in which Laurence Olivier falls for a younger woman, loses everything, and ends up in the poorhouse. And you know why? He's married to bad, bad, bad Miriam Hopkins.

It's always great fun when I have to come up with an idea for a new series on the big screen. So, I was thinking, how about "crazy hats"? Am I going to sell tickets?