9/3/2010, 9/5/2010
"The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made."
--Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), Emma (the movie)
"Once upon a time, there was a plaid overnight case."
--still screen in the beginning of What's Up Doc?; also read aloud by yours truly every time I watch this wonderful, wonderful movie
"Nora Charles" is the name of a character in the 1934 detective movie The Thin Man. Nick and Nora Charles. I've always wondered if the detective duo is in some strange--strange--way connected to the movie Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist. Doubtful.
"This is space! Course, we're just in the beginning part of space--we haven't even gotten to outer space yet!"
--Oscar (Owen Wilson), Armageddon
Dagobah: home planet of Yoda, Star Wars
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.
--Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
9/8/2010
Vulcan: home planet of Spock and the Vulcans, Star Trek
9/8/2010
Lusitania: setting of Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, three books in the Ender Series by Orson Scott Card
9/15/2010
"...that's what!"
--repeated phrase by the biddy Mrs. Rachel Lynde, from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (published in 1908)
9/21/2010
"(The Grand Hotel.) People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."
--theme and line from Best Picture The Grand Hotel (1932)
--Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), Emma (the movie)
9/3/2010
"Once upon a time, there was a plaid overnight case."
--still screen in the beginning of What's Up Doc?; also read aloud by yours truly every time I watch this wonderful, wonderful movie
9/3/2010
"Nora Charles" is the name of a character in the 1934 detective movie The Thin Man. Nick and Nora Charles. I've always wondered if the detective duo is in some strange--strange--way connected to the movie Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist. Doubtful.
9/3/2010
"This is space! Course, we're just in the beginning part of space--we haven't even gotten to outer space yet!"
--Oscar (Owen Wilson), Armageddon
9/8/2010
Dagobah: home planet of Yoda, Star Wars
9/8/2010
Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.
--Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
9/8/2010
Vulcan: home planet of Spock and the Vulcans, Star Trek
9/8/2010
Lusitania: setting of Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, three books in the Ender Series by Orson Scott Card
9/15/2010
"...that's what!"
--repeated phrase by the biddy Mrs. Rachel Lynde, from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (published in 1908)
9/21/2010
"(The Grand Hotel.) People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."
--theme and line from Best Picture The Grand Hotel (1932)