There is also a articulation acting warm-up about a "mother pheasant plucker" Its much longer than that but the trick is to get it right... I imagine the song is similar??
I adore David Bowie-- so I'm pleased too! However (and I am no music critic!) is EMINEM really more inflential than Bob Dylan ? I mean, don't you have to be around awhile to be influential. I'll admit I think Eminem sucks, for lack of a better word, but I'm always confused when some relatively new act is touted as influential. Maybe there should be some ten year waiting period before someone can be considered influential?
I'm interested in what all you learned music critic type people have to say about this issue.
I have to jump in for a minute of the Life is Beatiful thread. I really enjoyed the movie, and I did not feel that it was a mockery of the holocaust (I am sort of a holocaust movie aficianado) I felt that the humor only deepened our understanding of the tragedy. The thing that I felt was very strange and troublesome about the movie was the way the father decieved his son. It seems to me very cruel, because I would think that it would be obvious, even to an eight year old, that this was not a game-- that people were starving and dying. I know this was necessary for the movie, and all in all I applaud Life is Beautiful. I do feel, however, that in general, we don't give children enough credit for how they will respond to horrific circumstances, and do them more damage by trying to deceive them into believing that everything is alright, when it apparant is all wrong.
Just a minute on my soap box--I always think of the good female actors as"female actors" and the ones like Pamala Anderson Lee as "actresses" In the theare world anyway, both male and female call themselves actors.
Anyhoo-- glad to see the great Kate (Hepburn) made your list-- my favorite of all time. And I have to agree with lbangs re: Bette Davis for great old school acting ability.
I have now seen the Sixth Sense and I WAS SO SURPRISED!!! I didn't predict the ending at all, so a nice enjoyable movie for me. (And whoever thinks that Bruce Willis is not a good actor should see that movie. Perhaps it is related to the actors playing disabled/unusual/mentally retarded people getting more accolades than those who play "normal"?)
Winesburg Ohio is by Sherwood Anderson (98% sure off the top of my head). You did spell Prufrock correctly. I fear I am an old-style English major. I'm not sure if no one cares how to spell anymore, or we are just careless on the internet...
I did not mean that as an insult to anyone, though... just sort of sounding off. one of my jobs in answering e-mails of college students, and sometimes I can barely read them...
Great list, however. I do like most of these (although The Heart of Darkness is a little TOO deep into darkness for me to enjoy reading {though a good book})
I always sit through the credits. I believe its mostly because I was trained in theatre, and think that all those "backstage" people deserve to have me see their name. I also know what most of the wierd things (like gaffers and greensmen) are, so I think it is more interesting to me.
# 7. is Kathleen Turner in War of the Roses.
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There is also a articulation acting warm-up about a "mother pheasant plucker" Its much longer than that but the trick is to get it right... I imagine the song is similar??
I adore David Bowie-- so I'm pleased too! However (and I am no music critic!) is EMINEM really more inflential than Bob Dylan ? I mean, don't you have to be around awhile to be influential. I'll admit I think Eminem sucks, for lack of a better word, but I'm always confused when some relatively new act is touted as influential. Maybe there should be some ten year waiting period before someone can be considered influential?
I'm interested in what all you learned music critic type people have to say about this issue.
I have to jump in for a minute of the Life is Beatiful thread. I really enjoyed the movie, and I did not feel that it was a mockery of the holocaust (I am sort of a holocaust movie aficianado) I felt that the humor only deepened our understanding of the tragedy. The thing that I felt was very strange and troublesome about the movie was the way the father decieved his son. It seems to me very cruel, because I would think that it would be obvious, even to an eight year old, that this was not a game-- that people were starving and dying. I know this was necessary for the movie, and all in all I applaud Life is Beautiful. I do feel, however, that in general, we don't give children enough credit for how they will respond to horrific circumstances, and do them more damage by trying to deceive them into believing that everything is alright, when it apparant is all wrong.
Just a minute on my soap box--I always think of the good female actors as"female actors" and the ones like Pamala Anderson Lee as "actresses" In the theare world anyway, both male and female call themselves actors.
Anyhoo-- glad to see the great Kate (Hepburn) made your list-- my favorite of all time. And I have to agree with lbangs re: Bette Davis for great old school acting ability.
#14 is "I've got Life" From HAIR
I have now seen the Sixth Sense and I WAS SO SURPRISED!!! I didn't predict the ending at all, so a nice enjoyable movie for me. (And whoever thinks that Bruce Willis is not a good actor should see that movie. Perhaps it is related to the actors playing disabled/unusual/mentally retarded people getting more accolades than those who play "normal"?)
And #88 is All I want to Do-- Sheryl Crow
Just realized the song I was thinking of has the line "I LOVE coffee and I LOVe tea-- so number one is really Run-Around by Blues Traveler.
PS Richard III is my one of my favorite Shakespeares, and I think one of the most compelling performed...
Winesburg Ohio is by Sherwood Anderson (98% sure off the top of my head). You did spell Prufrock correctly. I fear I am an old-style English major. I'm not sure if no one cares how to spell anymore, or we are just careless on the internet...
I did not mean that as an insult to anyone, though... just sort of sounding off. one of my jobs in answering e-mails of college students, and sometimes I can barely read them...
Great list, however. I do like most of these (although The Heart of Darkness is a little TOO deep into darkness for me to enjoy reading {though a good book})
I always sit through the credits. I believe its mostly because I was trained in theatre, and think that all those "backstage" people deserve to have me see their name. I also know what most of the wierd things (like gaffers and greensmen) are, so I think it is more interesting to me.
97. Red, Red, Wine-- UB40
This is a good list for me, too
1. Java Jive-- The Ink Spots (or Manhatten Transfer)
20. River-- Joni Mitchell
59. Summer of '69-- Bryan Adams
80. (You Can) Call me Al-- Paul Simon
Wuthering Heights-- Kate Bush
Many Sting/Police songs are full of literary allusions... Unfortunately, I cannot seem to think of any specific examples right now.