Mark Harmon is on a tear! I do think he is handsome, but he is sort of a “generic” handsome that I’ve never been that attracted to. But it doth seem like I am in the minority.
Today, I’ve got a challenger who is the antithesis of “generically handsome” in anyone’s book. In fact, he’s not really handsome at all, but man, is he hot.
VERSUS
I know, it’s only September. But hey, all the stores have their Halloween stuff out, so I consider the holiday to be fair game. But, if you need to order a movie, it takes a while to ship and all that, so before you know it, Halloween is almost upon you!
Besides, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and it doesn’t take much for me to get into the, uh, spirit. So sorry, couldn’t resist.
But as with all “scary” movies, buy with caution and forethought into how your little viewer will be likely to handle it.
The Nightmare Before Christmas This movie is really two movies in one, because not only does it work for Halloween, it works equally well for Christmas. I’m all about the value, you know. This is a new re-release, and you’d better snap it up quick, because once they are gone, it’s unlikely Disney will do another for a while. Take it from the woman who lost her DVD oh, eight years ago and wasn’t able to buy another until this month.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Can this 1981 gem be any more classic? Can Linus be any cuter? And Lucy any more endearing than when she collects her brother from the pumpkin patch to put him into bed? Can Glinda just be done with the questions?
Casper Debate abounds about this movie, actually. Some people think it is horrible, while others see it as light and fluffy bit of entertainment. There are no Oscar noms here, but the kids will probably really like it.
Clifford’s Big Halloween Clifford is just one of those enduring, endearing creations that will be loved until the end of time. Trust me, you can never go wrong with Clifford.
Mickey’s House of Villains Not a movie but a collection of animated shorts held together by an admittedly thin plot device. It is a mixture of old and new shorts, along with a sing-a-long by all the Disney villains.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks Who doesn’t love Angela Lansbury in a live-action/animated movie about a magic bed? The young Ms. Lansbury plays an apprentice witch who goes on adventures with three adventurous orphans. This is old-skool Disney, and what’s not to like?
Something Wicked This Way Comes The scariest, thematically, of all the movies on this list. And it technically isn’t really about Halloween. But, this movie adapted from an excellent Ray Bradbury novel will leave you with tingles.
Corpse Bride All right, another movie not truly about Halloween. But with the underworld, ghosts and ghouls, it is sure to get you into a Halloween frame of mind. Victor Van Dort is already engaged, but somehow finds himself accidentally married to the Corpse Bride. Which bride will he pick, the one that’s alive, or the one that’s dead?
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad This DVD has both a version of Wind in the Willows (one of my favorite in children’s literature) and Sleepy Hollow. Both are definitely worth owning, and the vision of the Headless Horseman is enough to send almost everyone in the family hiding under the table.
All right, so Julie Chen is due in less than three weeks.
And for some reason, people have the nerve to criticize what she wore on the Big Brother series finale.
I admit, it isn’t exactly the most flattering look ever, but when a woman’s due date is just around the corner, I advocate that she can wear whatever she damn pleases!
Try talking to me about “fashion” when my vagina stops feeling as if it’s going to fall out whenever I stand up! The last month of pregnancy can be very, very uncomfortable for some women. And if being able to function means wearing a glorified silk Snuggie, then so be it!
As far as I’m concerned, her hair and makeup are done, and she is even wearing a nice necklace, so she’s way ahead of the game already!
It’s not like Heidi Klum is doing any better!
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
What young woman, or older woman for that matter, didn’t swoon when Patrick Swayze uttered those immortal words?
This has been a bad year for former teen icons, what with Patrick’s death yesterday from pancreatic cancer.
I remember “Dirty Dancing” being a bit more, uh, arousing than a lot of the other movies targeted at teens at that time. There was something so deliciously wrong about someone as old as Johnny Castle being involved with someone as young as Baby, but that was where I got my vicarious thrill. I was fourteen or so at the time this came out, and it was definitely one of the sexiest movies my Catholic-school bred eyes had yet to see.
I also got my thrills from watching Patrick Swayze’s fantastic physique. And even better, married and stayed married to his young sweetheart, being together for 34 years.
So let us remember Mr. Swayze in all of his former glory. Rest in peace.
Oh hai.
I don’t know if you noticed my absence during all of last week, but I was busy being given a delicious solution of dextrose solution and antibiotics via IV in my prison hospital room. It was four days of no food and hoping it would relax my irritable gall bladder, or else go into surgery and possibly trigger preterm labor at 31 weeks. Fun times my friends, fun times!
But I’m back and on some sort of low-fat diet that really isn’t all that bad, hoping that another attack does not occur until I’m at least 36 weeks. Else they will probably check my butt back into the hospital and that would make me an extremely crabby person, to say the least. But trust me when I say there is no food tempting enough to risk having all that happen again.
All right, onwards and upwards!
For last week’s poll, the majority of you stated that you aren’t even capable of looking towards the holidays yet, it’s just one day at a time. I hear you sistas, I hear you.
As for today, perhaps you haven’t yet heard of Kanye West completely dissing 17 year old Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. What say you about this incident?
Let’s get in the Tardis, or the souped-up DeLorean, or the Austin Powers Love Bug (your choice) and travel back in time to 1984, a simpler time. A time when future hunks roamed the earth in embroyonic, geeky form, interviewing 13-year-old teddy bear collectors at International Teddy Bear Conventions.
Ladies and/or gentlemen, I give you: Keanu Reeves, Boy Reporter.
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