Writer guy Bob Westal was literally born in Hollywood and has commented on the worlds of movies, popular culture, politics, and food ever since. His interest in cocktails is more recent, but he made up for lost time with hundreds of “Drink of the Week” blog posts for Bullz-Eye. In addition to writing and editing, Bob also talks a lot.
As we continue on our low-key holiday-weekend here, below is a moving montage TCM put together honoring the film notables who passed on this year, with music by Steve Earle.
It’s always a little surprising how many great people you can lose in a year.
I still think is the greatest of all American Christmas films. Do I even need to tell you the title?
Because you expect it. Sorry about the gratuitous ad at the end.
One thing’s for sure, Jean Shepherd could write. Oh, and Merry Christmas/Happy Chinese-food-and-movie-day to one and all!
Since it’s a nostalgic bittersweet, family-oriented musical comedy set in the turn of the century midwest starring Judy Garland, some of you might assume that “Meet Me in St. Louis” is kind of a drippy, saccharine movie. Trust me, it’s sweet but anything but drippy and established Vincente Minelli as one of the greatest of Hollywood directors. If your cable system has TCM, you can see for yourself; it’s showing at 10:00 pst/1:00 a.m. est tonight.
In the meantime, here’s big sister Judy Garland trying to console Margaret O’Brien with one of the loveliest pop Christmas songs ever written. This always gets to me.
Yeah, we’ve all been working hard and it’s time to have a little fun. For starters, here’s a gag reel I just stumbled over from “The Fellowship of the Ring.” I might have missed it, but as far as I know this isn’t on any of the DVDs — please correct me if I’m wrong.
I didn’t make a list best of list for the movies of the 2000s, partly because I’m not done seeing them, but if I did there’s a good chance that Peter Jackson’s massive adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” would be right at the top. So, this tickles me a bit extra.
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