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To: LindyBill who wrote (87313)	11/19/2004 7:45:34 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

My favorite was hung in my office when I was in business. Strother Martin to Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke:" "What we have here is, failure to communicate." 400 greatest movie quotes. Ann Althouse It takes a while to read through all 400 quotes afi.com nominated as greatest movie quotes by the American Film Institute, which Throwing Things threw at me. If you decide to read over the downloadable PDF document available at the first link, note that the list is in alphabetical order, not order of greatness: "All-righty, then" from "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" is not the greatest quote in the history of film. I spent a moment contemplating how anyone could think such a thing. These are nominees, from which a final 100 will be chosen. Reading the standard the jurors are asked to apply helps makes some sense of some of the choices (e.g., "Damn!"): CULTURAL IMPACT Movie Quotes that viewers use in their own lives and situations; circulating through popular culture, they become part of the national lexicon. LEGACY Movie Quotes that viewers use to evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy. Well, so we're really trying to generate a list of greatest catchphrases. It's not so much great writing as a particular actor memorably getting off a "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" zinger at a key point in a big film. Once that's clear, it's fun to read the list. "Sanctuary!" (from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame") "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." (from "King Kong") "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" (from the "Wizard of Oz") "Hey, lady!" (Jerry Lewis as Herbert H. Heebert in "The Ladies' Man"") Some work for me as beautiful lines: "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." (from "In a Lonely Place") "To God, there is no zero. I still exist." (from "The Incredible Shrinking Man") And some are perfectly insufferable: "It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you." (from "Ghost") Here's the most hilariously bad one: "Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, spendid, adorable fool!" (from "The Ten Commandments") And somebody please teach these clowns some basic Italian. It's not "Take the cannolis."

To: LindyBill who wrote (87313)	11/19/2004 8:13:48 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793719

I love Tom Wolfe. But. Last night at Border's I read the first and last chapter of Charlotte Simmons, and I don't think I'll buy it. I would not have read the last chapter except that the first chapter left me feeling "eh." And I would have stopped after a page or two if I felt like it was going to be worth waiting for. Hard decision, because I have pretty much everything else he ever wrote, including the serialized version of Bonfire of the Vanities (serialized in Rolling Stone, and not exactly the same as the book version.) Not to mention pretty much every magazine article he's written, in the original. But, although I may collect Tom Wolfe, I am not a "collector," per se. First editions leave me cold. Collecting variorum editions seems ludicrous to me. And I just don't have any interest in reading the whole book. Sometimes good writers sort of peter out. Thomas Pyncheon was that way, among others.