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It seems that every LJ user and his/her dog is obsessed with pop culture! I must be one of the more boring members because I've been dere, done dat! That's what your twenties are for, aiight? I've started my vacation (at 7:30 pm tonight when I finished up some outstanding work projects, yesss!) and now I have 10 days with no work!! Woohoo!! I only have 6 days off work but I'm counting the weekends, baby!
Naturally, I'm celebrating by watching a WW2 movie (I almost wrote "war movie" but someone (anyone? anyone? Bueller?) might wonder which war...ha! Sorry, I'm my father's daughter and watch mostly WW2 -- it reminds me of my chilehood, as they say... Anywho, the movie is
"The Great Escape" with the incomparable...Gordon Jackson! You might think I'd mention Steve McQueen (eh) or even James Garner (let's face it, I was mighty tempted - it's Jim Rockford, after all!) but Gordon Jackson is who I 'amember since he was in one of my favorite Masterpiece Theatre's of all time:"A Town Like Alice" starring Bryan Brown (you may remember him as Mr. Rachel Ward and from "The Thorn Birds" as the brutishly hunky manly man Luke O'Neill as opposed to the cerebral & feyish Father Ralph de Bricassart played by the incomparable Richard Chamberlain). I italicize Luke O'Neill, because even though little Meggie was supposed to really be in love with Father Ralph, I think Rachel Ward was already feeling the Outback heat for Mr. Brown and her voice always took on this dark & deep tone when she she said his name. Like she was writing on her notebook, "Mrs. Bryan Brown" Mrs. Rachel Brown" -- oh, what do I know -- she'd already spend God knows how many summers/winters/springs doing modeling in Milan so I doubt she did a lot of the notebook writing, but maybe she mumbled it a couple of times whilst coming down, eh? ;) (It's a joke, so please don't sue me, Mr. & Mrs. Brown?!)
Well, I just realized that I spent a lot of time writing about pop culture, but, then again, is it really "pop" culture if it's all referring to stuff that happened in the early 80's? And I was there the first time, thankyouverymuch~! Sigh...I miss Wham!
BTW, the new icon is from the Wilson River -- gorgeous scenery up here!
Anonymous
July 19 2005, 03:22:26 UTC 6 years ago
"And then...the tunnel! It's the only way!"
I was and am very big on The Great Escape, but I always liked Charles Bronson, aka Danny "Tunnel King" Vilinski in it: "I need a vash!" Actually, Richard Attenborough was my favorite at the time I saw it (the 70s), and I ran out and read the book and bought the soundtrack. Then I watched every prison bust movie I could find, including one starring Attenborough, "Breakout", in which they escape during a prison production of "Hamelt"; another escape flick starred Charles Bronson, also called "Breakout" in 1975, and of course, another biggie escape film, "Papillon", starring (wait for it!)...Steve McQueen! [read all the books, natch]. And now the current generation has the immortal "Shawshank Redemption"!That's the problem with today's LJers--they don't wanna escape anything! They're too in love with the poster to break through it!
--Rich
July 19 2005, 04:28:12 UTC 6 years ago
Re: "Me? I'm watchin' him taking a shower!"
There was also that Scottish guy (the one who went squirrly after too much time in the cooler, I think?) who looked like the grandfather of Pippin! ("Don't encourage him, Stevie!") I recall watching "Papillon" many times, even though I didn't understand the story's complexities, natch, being a pre-teen! I think we must have had a whole Dustin Hoffman fanclub going on in the house, too, because we watched "Little Big Man" innumerable times as well.Oh, and I remember reading "Brubaker" -- that must have been during the crux of my Redford the Reformer time period.
Dina :)