The Sheila Variations

That image conjures up so much for me. It's so weird.

-What was going through Margot Kidder's mind when she was ofund naked wandering around her neighborhood?

-Why, oy WHY did that have to happen to Christopher Reeve.

-I miss Valerie Perrine

-I thought Reeve was the funniest, most interesting, most complex Superman ever.

-I was thrilled to see Terrence Stamp and Ned Beatty in the same flick.

I loved that Jackie Cooper made an appearance, because he and the orignal TV Superman (George Reeves) were very good freinds.

-The original song (sung by Marueen McGovern) is one of my favorite words to music ever in a movie. "Can You Read My Mind". It's actually spoken in the movie by Margot Kidder as she flies next to Superman for the first time. Orgasmic and unbelievably romantic.

Thanks Sheila. I loved this movie. Sorry for going on.

Alex - I LIVE for you to "go on" like that.

It's why I posted that image - just because I know how emotional people get about that movie - for all different kinds of reasons.

How awesome was Gene Hackman, too? So deliciouisly corrupt.

I actually kind of can't go see the new one because I loved this one so much. I know I'll see it eventually, but still. Not now.

Yeah, I'm kinda with Emily on that. So many memories attached to the "original" (I know, I know, not the ORIGINAL original but we tend to define things based on our own lives).

It's a great shot and it reminds me of everything that was wonderful about that movie.

That's sorta heartbreaking.

"My mother lives in Hackensack."

(looks at watch, looks up, shakes head)

Timing perfect to the millisecond. I loved Hackman in that movie.

I saw Biography on Margot two weeks ago. She's such a great presence and a spirited broad (in the best possible sense). She lives somewhere in like, Wyoming, now where all the locals know her and call her "Margie."

The program was made with her & her family's cooperation. She was totally frank about a life-threatening abortion she went thru in the 70's and about her life-long struggle with mental illness. She copes with the bi-polar thing thru diet and meditation etc. now. To see that show was to fall in love with her as a person. You just knew if you went to her house she'd put you to work in the garden or something right after you got there. I LOVED her!