In Honor Of the First Sunday of Lent

Posted on February 25, 2007 by sheila

… here is my impression of Heaven.

Michael, I am dying to talk with you about Paradise Alley. I realize that I am communicating with you through my blog which is strange and dysfunctional … but whatevs. Paradise Alley!

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12 Responses to In Honor Of the First Sunday of Lent

  1. Emily says:
    February 25, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    And good luck to all the nominees…even the ones I hope don’t win!!!! Wear awesome clothes, please!

  2. Susan says:
    February 25, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    God I love tonight.
    But my twisted mind is thinking…how many references will there be to Judge Fonze?

    There’s no circus here, my friend.

  3. tracey says:
    February 25, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    Sheila — I see “Cliffhanger” there. Have you actually watched that one yet? Uhm, the opening few moments, in particular?

  4. red says:
    February 26, 2007 at 9:01 am

    tracey – yes, I have seen it! I actually saw it in the movie theatre. haha

  5. D says:
    February 26, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Is that the current heaven? I don’t see Field of Dreams! ha-ha

  6. red says:
    February 26, 2007 at 10:10 am

    D – huh? Last time I checked, Sly was not in Field of Dreams.

  7. D says:
    February 26, 2007 at 10:15 am

    I know that Red, I was just trying to be funny – Iowa/Heaven/Used to post about it…. never mind. Peace!

  8. mejack says:
    February 26, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    WHERE IS OSCAR?!?!?!

  9. red says:
    February 26, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    I know!! I know!! That’s a huge missing piece there. My bad!!

    And the lack of Rocky II also haunts me.

  10. JFH says:
    February 26, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Cliffhanger– Loved it when I saw it, but for some reason it’s not a “stop and watch” movie for me when it comes on TV. I think it’s the bad guys’ performance, just TOO over the top…I mean it’s a “fun” movie, actors are supposed to play the villians “over the top”, but the 2nd or 3rd viewing didn’t work for me like, say, Die Hard. Lithgow, especially… I just don’t know why he can’t play the villian (IMHO) as well as he plays other characters.

    That said, even though I hate it, I can’t NOT watch the first scene when Sly tries to rescue his best friend’s girlfriend. Her looking up with her blue eyes and pleading to Sly not to let go is VERY haunting.

  11. red says:
    February 27, 2007 at 10:08 am

    JFH – oh God, that moment is just horrible. gives me shivers.

  12. red says:
    February 27, 2007 at 10:16 am

    And JFH – your problem with Cliffhanger is a problem for me with movies like that, too. I get bored with action movies, if the morality is too black and white.

    That’s why Cagney remains a fascinating and mysterious star. Even when he played a bad guy, you were kind of on his side because he was the most interesting complex character up there.

    I get VERY bored with the kind of telegraphing-to-the-morons-in-the-audience “morality” of those big ol’ action movies.

    Even Stallone in that movie. I mean, I think he’s good enough as an actor that he always brings a level of ambiguity to whatever he’s doing – he seemed like a real guy in the film – but still. It doesn’t hold my interest.

    His LEGS, however, in that movie, will hold my interest until I am 97 years old.

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