Where has this video been all my life? To help you back to work after a three-day weekend, here’s a YouTube wizard’s tribute to Joan Crawford’s cinematic slaps set to the tune of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”
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As some of you might recall, this time last year I was blathering about cubic zirconias and fried chicken, as I’m wont to do throughout the year but particularly on our most romantic holidays (Valentine’s Day, Koninginnedag, Polish Independence Day, all the usual suspects).
This year I’ll be blathering alarmingly gooey “No, I love you more” stuff to the woman who has kept me away from this blog for months and months — an act of charity toward the Internet that reportedly has her in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize — but I wanted to dust off the old keyboard long enough to wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day. And a special Happy Valentine’s Day to the mysterious Ms. Aarons (if that is your real name): You set my heart ablaze like Connie Stevens’ flaming baby “brother” in Susan Slade, dear, and I love you madly.
(Told you I’d find a way to post that screencap!)
(P.S. No babies were harmed in the making of Susan Slade, only the dignity of Connie Stevens and Dorothy McGuire.)
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As if to make up for last month’s ill-advised Ricardo Montalban marathon, Turner Classic Movies is showing The More the Merrier tonight as part of their 31 Days of Oscar: Urban Housing block of programming. Besides featuring one of Jean Arthur’s best performances, this George Stevens comedy about the housing shortage in World War II boasts one of the most romantic scenes I’ve ever seen in any movie, as a woozy Arthur tries to resist her attraction to one of her boarders (played by the always brilliant Joel McCrea). The scene is on YouTube — everything ever recorded in the history of the universe is apparently available on YouTube — but you have to see it in the context of the movie to get the full effect.
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Turner Classic Movies kicks off their annual 31 Days of Oscar special tonight with a slate of films from the 1970s: Jaws, The Hospital, Network, and, my personal favorite of the bunch, Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces. Don’t just watch it because it contains what is arguably Jack Nicholson’s finest performance (he used to give good ones, you know), or because Karen Black earned a much-deserved Oscar nomination for her role as his needy girlfriend Rayette, whose hair, makeup and general dizziness paved the way for countless Jennifer Coolidge characters.
Watch it because Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe author and celebrated zany sweater-wearing Match Game panelist Fannie Flagg appears in a bowling alley scene. Watch it because of the comically angsty lesbian hitchhikers Palm and Terry (played by Helena Kallianiotes and “Mickey” singer Toni Basil), who are picked up by Nicholson and Black. Watch it because it has a wonderful supporting performance by Lois Smith. You won’t find any of those things in Jaws.
And gluttons for punishment, take note: Darling Lili, another of those Blake Edwards movies with Julie Andrews that manages to seem oddly gay even when the proceedings are assuredly heterosexual, will air after Five Easy Pieces for reasons known only to God, if God exists, and the TCM programmers. Andrews has about as much chemistry with costar Rock Hudson as Lily Tomlin had with John Travolta in Moment by Moment, for those of you who revel in that sort of thing.
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