Just Because

Posted on July 11, 2006 by sheila

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8 Responses to Just Because

  1. Alex says:
    July 11, 2006 at 11:06 am

    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.

  2. red says:
    July 11, 2006 at 11:10 am

    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.

  3. Emily says:
    July 11, 2006 at 11:45 am

    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.

  4. ricki says:
    July 11, 2006 at 11:47 am

    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).

  5. Nightfly says:
    July 11, 2006 at 5:49 pm

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

  6. PatrickP says:
    July 12, 2006 at 2:09 am

    That’s sorta heartbreaking.

  7. Ken says:
    July 12, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    “My mother lives in Hackensack.”

    (looks at watch, looks up, shakes head)

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

  8. Chai-Rista says:
    July 13, 2006 at 4:58 pm

    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!

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