Hey, TFE readers. As you check out this latest reader spolight I'm probably in the friendly skies (heading to Nashville as previously indicated). One day I hope to flap my arms and fly to Australia (despite my fear of kangaroos) where Peter hails from. Peter, who you know as 'par' in the comments, used to run a blog "six things" that I worshipped -- our elongation of every mention of Laura Linney's name to "The Lovely Laura Linney" is his fault -- so this is my selfish excuse to make him list things again. And unlike so many of you he's older than me. Not everyone reading is allowed to claim Beauty & The Beast or The Lion King as their very first movie; People were having babies before 1987! (gasp)
Nathaniel: What were your first six movie obsessions?
PETER:
i. anything that played on tv on a weekend as we lived hundreds of miles from the nearest cinema (usually Doris Day musicals)
ii. cabaret
iii. jesus christ superstar
iv. grease
v. hair (sensing a theme here?)
vi. the invention of the VCR (yes kids i am that old) enabling me to see movies at home on my own schedule
Hey I remember the big-change of the VCR, too. The 1980s were so eventful. What are your six favorite things about The Film Experience (yes, I'm shameless)
a. the film bitch awards
b. the endless love for actresses
c. so much goodness every single day (seriously, i couldn't keep my blog going at one thing a day)
d. narrowing down the oscar contenders throughout the year so i don't have to
e. you, nathaniel
f. that it's still around (when you spun off to the blog from the original site i feared you were making a huge mistake)
Your 6 favorite actresses. The others only got 3 aren't you proud?
PETER:
Six things you would do if you were elected Supreme Overlord of the Movies for a year.
one - no budgets over $10,000,000 (except for pixar)
two - no 3d
three - no sequels
four - ang lee gets to do whatever the hell he wants
five - make woody allen watch all the movies he made between 1969 and 1994 in the hope he might make another as good (starring diane keaton)
six - i'll be deciding the oscars this year, thank you very much
Six Oscars you would recall. Who would they go to?
1. grace kelly (the country girl) to judy garland (a star is born)
2. helen hunt (as good as it gets) to helena bonham carter (the wings of the dove)
3. julia roberts (erin brockovich) to the lovely laura linney (you can count on me)
4. gloria grahame (the bad and the beautiful) to jean hagen (singin' in the rain)
5. donna reed (from here to eternity) to thelma ritter (pick-up on south street)
6. crash to brokeback mountain
Six favorite things about Australia. As you know I have a never-been-there fetish.
01. olivia newton-john
02. judy davis
03. toni collette
04. guy pearce
05. peter weir
06. kangaroos - big, scary, street roaming, american-blogger-eating kangaroos!
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