Alphabet Movie Soup

PJ tagged me with this meme last week. It was begun by Fletch at Blog Cabins. You name one movie for every letter of the alphabet. I'm going to skip the rules because most of you have seen them by now. Here's my list:

Airplane!-One of my favorite movies ever.
Bedazzled-I love both versions.
Cat Ballou-Lee Marvin is great in it and it also has a young Jane Fonda in it, grrr baby grrr.
Drug Store Cowboy-Matt Dillon's finest movie and it has Kelly Lynch in it, grrr baby grrr.
Eight Men Out-John Sayles take on the sad tale of the Chicago Black Sox. It costars a ton of people who went on to do bigger but not necessarily better things. And it features the late Studs Terkel as well.
Frankenhooker-A cheesy fun funny horror movie. It also features the finest non porn performance ever by Heather Hunter.
Go-A great little movie. Sarah Polley and Katie Holmes rock in this movie.
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle-Yes, it's a stoner comedy with all kinds of jokes about farting and getting high but I love it. What do you expect? I have the sense of humor of a 13 yr old.
I Heart Huckabees-If you hate this movie then you can bite me, I love it. It's funny and it has Naomi Watts in it so there, nah nah nah.
Jeremiah Johnson-One of the best westerns ever made.
King of Comedy-Deniro is creepily wonderful in this movie.
Lair of the White Worm-Another fun horror movie. Directed by Ken Russell and it has Amanda Donohoe and Catherine Oxenberg in it, grrr baby grrr.
Miller's Crossing-Marsha Gay Harden should have won her Oscar for this film. It's a brilliant gangster movie.
Nine to Five-Another great Jane Fonda movie.
O Lucky Man!-A crazy Malcolm McDowell movie musical from the late 60's/early '70's. I've seen most of it and the best thing about it is getting to see a young Helen Mirren's bare butt.
Patty Hearst-I lived through all of this and the movie got it pitch perfect. Natasha Richardson is knock your socks off great in this movie.
Quintet-One of Robert Altman's lesser thought of films from the 1970's. People are still trying to figure out just what the heck this movie was all about.
Rabbit Proof Fence-A great movie about a shitty time in Australian history. Also the DVD version has the best 'making of' feature ever made.
Soylent Green-I hated his right wing politics but I loved Heston's dystopian movies from the 1970's.
Tremors-Best movie Reba Whatshername ever made.
Up the Academy-One of the worst movie's ever made. Horrible. I'm still trying to forget how bad this movie was almost 30 years after I first saw it.
Virgin Suicides-A dreamy and sad movie. One of Kirsten Dunst's finest roles ever.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?-Clever animated/live action film.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl-X movies are hard to find. And yes, I've actually seen this film. I like Chinese movies, so there. Nah nah nah.
Young Frankenstein-Gene Wilder is brilliant, so is Marty Feldman, and don't get me started on the perfection that is Terri Garr. Her accent alone in this movie drives me wild.
Zardoz-Sean Connery rides around on a horse while wearing a thong thingy that is stretched over his lumpy hair body, people in masks ride around after him, women bitch about penises polluting them and the planet, what more could you want in a shitty 1970's sci fi movie? What's that? You want a super sexy Charlotte Rampling in the film as well? Okay then, you got it. Trust me, she's the best thing about this turkey.

Thanks for the tag PJ! I tag MN Mom, Enriched Geranium, Enc, and you to do this meme if you want.

Get your facts straight!

With all the hub bub surrounding Jane Fonda's appearance on the Today Show the other day it was just a matter of time before the old stories about Jane and I started to circulate again. The day after she was on the Today Show my house was surrounded by this guy:

He demanded to know what my relationship had been with Jane back in the day. I told him to shove off, that it was none of his business. He told me that he was going to run with a story that was nothing but a pack of lies and a bundle of untruths. What could I do? I'm in the middle of a Presidential campaign so I had to come clean.

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The fact is that Jane and I never were married. We were just close friends.

She hired me to help her run her lines and to teach her how to be more graceful in her scenes in movies and on stage. Like all women she dug my animal magnetism, my raw sexuality, and she wanted some monkey love. I put her off as long as I could but she was very persuasive.

She took me places and bought me things and she turned me into her monkey boy-toy. Soon I was under her spell and in her bed.But things went down hill for us soon after we began our affair. It turns out Jane was a heavy smoker back then and I just could not abide it so I left her.

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It was right after I left Jane that I met and married Patty Hearst who I divorced later that afternoon.

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Of course if you ask Jane and Patty about any of this they will deny all of it. They both were so disraught and traumatized over my leaving them that they blocked it out. Now go, leave me alone for a while, I've got things to do , places to go, starlets to marry, you know, the usual stuff for a monkey like me.

In case you missed her, or Julia, is that a Klute in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Jane's been out there beating the publicity bush lately for her new movie a lot lately, but more importantly she's also been speaking out against the war. And as you can see from the photos we shamelessly stole, La Fonda is "still gettin' it done."

Oh Jane, we've loved you since the day we first saw you in Cat Ballou on the Million Dollar Movie when we lived in the Detroit Zoo.

We're willing to forgive those marriages to Tom Hayden and Ted Turner if you bring us a banana and groom us later.

Deal?

It's OK, you can get back to us.

Sigh.