Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd w/Van Morrison

Best version of this song I've ever heard,
great in the movie "The Departed", as is the movie.
Originally on the 1990 CD "The Wall" live in Berlin w/Roger Waters.

Kenneth Charles Branagh

Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish actor and film director who turns 48 today.

Once married to Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter, he married film art director Lindsay Brunnock, to whom he was introduced by Bonham Carter in 1997.

Scene from the Wild, Wild West with Will Smith

Anna Chlumsky turns 28 today

If you don't remember Anna, she is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.


In the first movie she co-starred with Dan Aykroyd, who played her father Harry, and Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Shelly a make up artist. Her best friend in the movie was Thomas J., played by Macauley Culkin. Her mother is dead, her father owns a funeral home and Vada is obsessed with getting an illness and dying.



Nice movie, if you haven't seen it you should, it should have you in tears.

She continues to act in TV and movies, but I haven't seen anything she's done aside from these 2 movies. She's appeared in Law & Order and 30 Rock and has 3 movies being released shortly.

'Christmas Story' fans celebrate film's 25th year

CLEVELAND—Fans of the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.

The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard's memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a young boy determined to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.

The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it. It eventually joined "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas cult classic.

"It's a film about being a kid and looking back," said Brian Jones, who owns the house where the movie was shot and the neighboring museum dedicated to the film.

Boston Globe - Full Story

Dance Flick-in shows February 2009

The Wayan Brothers make fun of dance flicks.

Twilight Movie Trailer

I've heard a lot of good things about the books and the movie.

‘Twilight’ sucks up $70.5M in debut

LOS ANGELES -The vampire romance "Twilight" drained the box office in its opening weekend, taking in $70.6 million.

Catherine Hardwicke’s film also enjoyed the biggest opening ever for a female director, blowing away the previous standard of $41.1 million set by Mimi Leder’s "Deep Impact" in 1998.

Drawing from its huge fan base of teenage girls, who fell for Stephenie Meyer’s novel of forbidden love between brooding vampire Edward Cullen and bookish high schooler Bella Swan, "Twilight" made a whopping $20,636 per theater, according to Sunday morning estimates.

And the fangirls will get another taste soon enough: Summit Entertainment, which released "Twilight," announced during the weekend that it’s going ahead with production of "New Moon," based on the second book in Meyer’s internationally best-selling series.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will return as its star-crossed lovers, but whether Hardwicke will be at the helm again is still being determined.

The laid-back Hardwicke, who went bodyboarding at sunset Saturday to take her mind off this high-pressure weekend, said Sunday morning that she was heading to a meeting later in the day to discuss her possible involvement in "New Moon."

"I want to be sure that it’s going to be done right. I don’t want to rush into it," she said. "It’s not like ’Friday the 13th’ or ’Halloween;’ you can’t just do it super fast and knock another one out. I want to understand their plans and all that."

Hardwicke, whose previous films include "Thirteen" and "Lords of Dogtown," also said she was thrilled about the prospect that the success of "Twilight" will inspire other women and young girls to pursue a career in filmmaking.

Boston Herald - Full Story

Star of ‘Twilight' to appear in Saugus

I would not have even known anything about this movie if it weren't for my friend, Toni. Seems the books are a hit with teens.

SAUGUS, Mass. - Robert Pattinson, star of the upcoming movie "Twilight," is set to appear Friday at the Square One Mall in Saugus.

Fans lined up overnight for an autograph session with Pattinson at Hot Topic. Police allowed fans to line up in advance in hopes of preventing situations seen across the country.

(WHDH TV 7-Full Story)

Nights in Rodanthe

from Amazon.com
Nicolas Sparks logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe.

A housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years prior. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair.

Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate.

The book was very good. However, it reminded me a lot of his first book "Message in a Bottle". Worth the read, and if they stick to the book, the movie should be just as good.

Barbie in "A Christmas Carol"

This November playing every Sunday & Tuesday at 10 a.m.


Barbie in a Christmas Carol - All Tickets $3.50
Plus receive concession coupon for $3.50 KIDS COMBO

Running time 97 minutes





Playing at the following locations:

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Good Morning...

I have such a head cold this morning. So I'm going to keep this short and sweet and probably won't write much today. Patriots play the Colts @ 8:15 PM, so I'll miss that because the benadryl I'm taking for a runny nose will knock me out. Besides, I'm getting too old to stay up that late, especially on a school night. Have I told you I hate Peyton Manning, his brother, too. Two of the fugliest quarterbacks I've ever seen.

Watched the movie "No Country for Old Men" last night...if you have the opportunity to see this, skip it. I can't believe how much it stunk. I would have been better off watching reruns of CSI.

I haven't finished my book, "Nights in Rodanthe". Maybe I'll go back to bed and do a little reading.

Personalized GPS

submitted by Lenny
WARNING: There are words to offend everyone in this clip, lots of F Bombs

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Sarah Jessica Parker,
Bette Midler
and Kathy Najimy









The Sanderson Sisters sing "I Put a Spell on You"



Movie Trivia
• When Bette Midler takes the stage at the town Halloween Party, she says "Hello Salem, my name is Winifred. What's yours?". This is a take-off of the famous line, "Hello world, my name is Rose, what's yours?" that is spoken by Mama Rose in the musical "Gypsy". Midler played Mama Rose in the television version, Gypsy (1993) (TV), the same year this film was released.

• The role of Max Dennison was originally offered to Leonardo DiCaprio, but was given to Omri Katz when DiCaprio turned it down to appear in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).

• There were seven statues made of Bette Midler for the scene in which she bursts in the sunlight toward the end of the movie. One of the statues, along with Winnie's spell book, is housed at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Orlando, Florida.

• Rosie O'Donnell was originally offered the role of Mary Sanderson, but it was ultimately given to Kathy Najimy. O'Donnell claims on her blog that she turned down the offer to work with the Divine Miss M because she didn't want to be a "scary witch".

• During the final fight in the cemetery, the background music imitates Miss Gulch's (the Wicked Witch) theme from The Wizard of Oz (1939).

• Brother and sister Garry Marshall and Penny Marshall play husband and wife. He's the one dressed as Satan.

Psycho Shower Scene (Original) 1960

I'm only posting these because it's Halloween.

This one is not for the faint of heart.
It is the ORIGINAL shower scene from the movie Psycho starring Janet Leigh.

Warning: You'll be showering with one eye open after viewing.

Movie News & Trivia

By any account Estelle Reiner led an accomplished life. The wife of comedy icon Carl Reiner and mother to actor-director Rob Reiner, she was a painter, jazz singer and antiwar activist. She also acted, and made a little bit of cinematic history in her son's hit film When Harry Met Sally... You can't forget her, she plays in the famous orgasm scene with Meg Ryan. After Sally proves her point to Harry, Estelle tells the waiter,

"I'll have what she's having"

Estelle Reiner died Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills at 94.

‘Shining’ examples of horror classics

Here are the Boston Herald's Top 10 Scariest Movies of all Time: (Boston Herald-Full Story)

1. “Nosferatu”
2. “The Bride of Frankenstein”
3. “Psycho”
4. “Kwaidan”
5. “Rosemary’s Baby”
6. “Night of the Living Dead”
7. “The Exorcist”
8. “The Shining”
9. “Ringu”
10. “A Tale of Two Sisters”

50 Scariest Movies

Boston.com is running a list of the 50 scariest movies.
(click here to view).


I love a good horror movie, not the slasher kind, altho every time I see Nightmare on Elm Street on TV, I have to admit Freddie creeps me out, and I just can't turn it off. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one movie I could never watch. I've seen bits and pieces, and I know it's based on a true story, but I just didn't like what I saw. The first Saw was okay after years of not seeing a good horror movie. I prefer a psychological thriller. Like Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster, and Seven (1995), with Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow.

It's hard to believe that Psycho (1960), with Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh, didn't make the list at all. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that movie and then showered with one eye open for about a week.

The scariest background music has to go to the Exorcist and Jaws which came in at 14 and 15 on the list. Too bad my dates to those movies didn't realize I was enjoying them, or maybe they did and that's why I didn't see much of them after. Psycho's violin strings being poked at didn't sound like music to me, but some people consider it a musical score...and it should never be played in the vicinity of a bathroom or while someone is showering.


Here's the Top 10 of the list. I've only seen 4 of them but I'm sure they'll all be on some channel this week:

1) The Thing (1982)
2) Ju on (2000)
3) Rec (2007)
4) The Ring (2002)
5) Alien (1979)
6) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
7) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
8) Evil Dead II (1987)
9) Halloween (1978)
10) Audition (1999)

Tuesday Afternoon

I received this pic this morning from Marylou, oops...sorry, I mean Maria. I've seen it before and it always reminds me of Face from Nickelodeon and not a Smile from God as it was labeled. Remember Face? "Hello there, Face here". Face would come on in between shows and my kids loved him. They loved him better than the programs they watched.

You may already know that Game 5 of the World Series was suspended due to rain. The score was tied 2-2. It's due to resume tonight or tomorrow night or "when weather conditions are decent".

Woke up this morning with a song in my head...Tuesday Afternoon by the Moody Blues, I think. Same verse...

Tuesday afternoon, I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way,
It doesn't matter to me, chasing the clouds away.

I haven't heard this song for a while, so I can't figure out why I'm thinking about it, other than it's Tuesday. And now the tune is in your head!

Cracked open the book I've been carrying around for months last night, Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. He also wrote Message in a Bottle and my sweetie, Kevin Costner, starred in that movie, and The Notebook. Both were really good movies. Hopefully I'll finish it so I can go see the movie this weekend. Wikipedia describes the author as writing "novels with themes that include Christianity, love, tragedy and fate". All I know is I cried thru both and expect I'll do the same with this one. Nights in Rodanthe stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane. I'm about half-way thru the book and it's really good so far.

Now it's time to head to work.

The Contract

Finally watched this movie last night with Steven. I've had it for about 2 months from Netflix, or ever since Lynda took my TV to school.


The storyline: A widower, coach, and former policeman, Ray Keene, who lost his wife to cancer 2 years prior, takes his teenage son, Chris Keene, on a camping trip to try to bond with him after he is caught by the police smoking pot. Meanwhile, a mercenary assassin, Frank Carden, is arrested by the FBI after he is involved in a car accident. While Frank is being escorted by three FBI agents, his men try to rescue him, but his car falls into a river and is carried by the drift where Ray & Chris find them. Ray & Chris help the wounded agent and the cuffed Frank leave the river, and after the agent dies, Ray feels responsible to deliver Frank to justice. Frank trys to convince them to leave him there and walk away because his team is looking for him and will get rid of all witnesses. But Ray refuses to listen. Frank's men track them through the woods because Carden is the only one who has the information to the off-shore accounts for their money. While an undercover agent in the team is chasing the group with different lethal intentions.

John Cusack plays Ray Keene, Morgan Freeman plays Frank Carden, and Jamie Anderson plays Chris Keene.

Pretty good movie, different storyline, but with all the guns being shot and people being killed, the only one who shows any real emotion is the actor Jamie Anderson. I looked him up and surprisingly, this is the only thing I could find that he acted in. The strangest concept of this whole film was the only reason Cusack ended up having to bring Freeman in was his son's cellphone didn't work in the forest. However, the merceneries had no problem with their cellphones and one even had his laptop working while hiding in the trees. I wouldn't run out to rent it, wait for it to come to cable.

Sex & the City: The Movie

I watched this movie with Kasey & Lisa late Saturday night. Whether you watched the series or not, they explained enough about each of the characters so that you could follow the movie.

I thought it was a pretty good movie and stayed true to the series. Never knew what "Big's" real name was until now. John James Preston, and I still don't get why Carrie picked him over Aidan (don't know unless you watched the series)...but I never thought Carrie was a beauty either, nor Miranda. The only 2 I ever thought were cast correctly for a title like this were Charlotte & Samantha.

Stars Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, Kristin Davis as Charlotte York, and Cynthia Nixon as Miranda Hobbes.

Nice chick flick, glad I didn't see it at the movies but it would have been fun to dress up and see it.