Ahhhhh. When I was a little ballerina, I had trading cards of ballerinas, and one of my favorite ones was of Moira Shearer. I wasn't sure it was the same person, because I didn't know she ever did films. She was very pretty in her tutu!! Thanks for that link!
I'm curious, what's your favorite movie and why?
Ballerina Trading Cards?
I hope you get a chance to see the film. I watch it over and over every time that it is on. To me it wasn't just about dancing, it was about the dilema of choosing between being "normal" and being driven by talent - - in this case represented by the red shoes.
I always equate the red shoes with my work boots!
You betcha! They were awesome! I hadn't thought of them in years until Gloria mentioned Moira Shearer! I wonder if I could find those now. I think I was around 10 when I had them. Actually, they also had male dancers too, so I guess you couldn't call them "ballerina" trading cards. Many were from the Moscow company. Svetlana was a common name.....
Did they have bubble gum in them??
No....I think my ballet teacher gave them to us.......not even a stick of that hard pink flat gum that you got in the baseball cards.
Do you mean in the cards, in the Red Shoes,
or in my workboots. If the latter, the answer is, "sometimes".
That's what I meant - that awful stuff that was in baseball cards. I'd rather chew the card.
That destroys the value of the card.
Not the Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens ones.
What about plant trading cards? Would that be cool or what?
So we can exchange them at the RU's instead of plants?
I don't know - sometimes I just have ideas and no plans.
Now we're talkin' baseball movies?
http://www.bostonbaseball.com/baseball_movies/
I'm watching The Natural as we speak.........good baseball movie!
The natural is on TCM right now. Not a baseball fan. But it is on anyway.
We watched Pirates III last night. A bit slow, I thought.
Yes - not as good as the first two.
I agree - but then - who cares? It is Johnny Depp!
Actually I love bad movies. I think the worst one's I ever saw were the old Tom Mix movies where Tom survives the Indians woo woo woo ing to do in the wagon train. I think he wears fur chaps in the movie. The Roy Rogers ones at least had a plot.
fur chaps!?!
sounds kinkier than pumpkin sex...
All Peter Sellers Panther flicks
All Mel Brooks
My Blue Heaven - The Jerk - Roxanne -all w/Steve Martin
Princess Bride, Local Hero, Last Exit To Brooklyn - all with
Mark Knopfler soundtracks
The Good Girl and Bubble Boy w/ Jake Gyllenhall
Christmas Story
Being John Malkovich
The Constant GARDENER
Very Bad Things- as bad as the men were, the women were
worse
drzzsheehan: Are these the Worst or the Best?
LOL, Gloria....I was wondering the same thing about drzzzzzzz's list.....and thinking, Well, I liked that one........LOL
hey Gloria125, how's things in Greensboro? I visited the
catfish center there a few years ago when fact-finding about
fish farms in Uniontown. That list was the ramblings of an
alcohol-soaked mind, badly in need of thawed ground and
above-freezing temps, but all are a cut above some of the other suggestions, like Hudson Hawk or Lair of the White
Worm. Compost!
Drzz: Greensboro is getting some freezing temperatures - 16 over night here. Henry Rabbit is upset that his water is frozen and wont come out of his drinking tube bottle. The fish are freezing their toes. Are you planning to put in some fish ponds up there in NH?
Enjoyed your list. there are some on there that i need to see. Being John Malkovich for example. Is he in it?
yes, he is in it - it is a hoot. truly something completely different.
Right now on TCM. Hell in the Pacific. Lee Marvin & Toshiro Mifune.
Excellent.
My father would alway joke about Tom Mix in Cement.
Baseball has the vast majority of the great sports movies. I think it connects to us in father to son ways and historical ways like no other sport. My favorite would be Field of Dreams or Pride of the Yankees. (you ever notice there is no Pride of the Red Sox, or Da-n Red Sox?)
My favorite sports movie was Slap Shot: a great Paul Newman movie about hockey, relationships, the relentless chase for success, the plight of dying towns that have lost their major employers, etc. The critics hated it when it came out, because it was too gritty and too profane.
I loved and now own, 'Mystery Alaska'!
Zuzu, what was the name of the brothers.
A really great movie is Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.
To Kill a Mockingbird...and they better not EVER colorize it!!!!, and I mean that! :-)
I love Empire of the Sun. Its a film you can watch over and over.
I also love The Last Emporer.
One of my all-time favorites Connie!