Friday 5 for June 18: Heights

 

I thought this week's Friday 5 was going to be about aviation or flying... hmm... Heights... somewhat of a disconnect here.

1. What’s the best non-animated movie musical you’ve seen in the past several years? 

Non-animated movie musical? Haven't seen any in recent years but from my old age and long ago movie list I compiled this Top 5 + 5.... all of them OLD. Sorry.. nothing recent. I don't go to the movies or buy new DVDs anymore.

Just to keep the heights, here are my Top 5 + 5.

1. Grease (1978) - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John

2. A Hard Day's Night (1964) - The Beatles!

3. That Thing You Do! (1996) - The Wonders!!!!

4. The Sound of Music (1965) - Julie Andrews

5. Blue Hawaii (1961) - Elvis!!!!

6. Help! (1965) - The Beatles!

7. Footloose (1984) - ok nobody sings but a lot of good music & dancing in it.

8. Dirty Dancing (1987) - same reason as #7

9. Mary Poppins (1964) - cheating here; there are a few spots of animation.

10. Singing in the Rain (1951) - Gene Kelly

2. How are you most likely to pass the time during a lengthy blackout?

A blackout would definitely be a low point with no electricity. Ugh!

Top 5 things I would do:

1. Sleep (mostly if it is night time already)

2. Look for all the batteries 

3. Listen to the radio - search for news why power is out

4. Call or text someone if cell towers are working. In this instance I would really miss the landline that I discontinued a couple of years ago.

5. Read (if it is daytime. Not good to read if lighting is bad and you want to save on batteries).

3. When were you last in a swimming pool?

Walked by one recently, did not go in. Underwater is pretty low.

4. What do you remember fondly about the neighborhood where you grew up?

OK... one thing... all of use kids used to ride our bikes around our yard and up and down the neighborhood road. When the paved the road, they first laid a foundation of crushed coral over the old road. They paved it over and later we learned that you could use coral rocks to draw lines and pictures on the road. Next thing we had hopscotch squares drawn on the road and also white lines to mark the lanes on where we would ride our bikes. I was between the ages of 7 and 12 at this time.

5. What language did you study in school, and what’s something you remember how to say?

One  year of Spanish because I think it was required... The only things I kind of remember are:

"Hola!"

"Como estas?"

"No comprende espaneol."

And that's the lowdown on "heights." Adios!

Friday 5 for April 29: Scene a Good Film Lately?

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog: "Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below, so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us from your website."

I don't know about the "lately" part but here are several that come to mind....

1. What’s your favorite dancing scene in a movie?




1. "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry featuring John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.
2. "Born to Hand Jive" in the movie GREASE when John Travolta ends up dancing with "Cha Cha".

3. Famous dance scene with Gene Kelly dancing on the street set in the rain from Singing in the Rain.
4. Rose and Jack dancing at the steerage class party on Titanic, Rose doing that ballerina thing standing on her toes.
5. Various dance scenes with John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

2. What’s your favorite chase scene in a movie?

Here are a few that I've always liked:

1. Millennial Falcon being chased by TIE fighters flying through an asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back.
2. Land speeder chase on the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi.

3. Police cars chasing UFO's in Muncie, Indiana - Close Encounters of the Third Kind. "This is nuts"
4. Police cars chasing criminals in other police car, Chicago IL - premiere movie for 1988 TV series Crime Story by Michael Mann.

The above is the entire movie, the chase scene comes in near the beginning after the bad guys knock off the nightclub.
5. Steven Spielberg's entire 1971 movie of Duel where a big truck is chasing Dennis Weaver in a red Plymouth Valiant through the western desert region.

3. What’s your favorite courtroom scene in a movie?

Always loved the scene where Marissa Tomei's character Miss Vito in My Cousin Vinny tells the judge and courtroom about the differences between the 1964 Buick Skylark, 1963 Pontiac Tempest and the Chevrolet Corvette, all GM brands, which ultimately saves the lives of Vinny's innocent nephew and friend from a murder rap and prison.

4. What’s your favorite kissing scene in a movie?

I have to agree with the following presenter, that the hottest kissing scene in the movies is the so-called Spiderman kiss from the original 2002 movie where Spidey kisses Mary Jane played by Kirsten Dunst.

The goofiest kissing scene comes near the end of 1968's original Planet of the Apes movie where Taylor (Charlton Heston) kisses ape scientist Zira (Kim Hunter)... "...you're so damned ugly".

5. What’s your favorite scene in a non-musical movie where the characters spontaneously break into song?

I'll go with "The Banana Boat Song" lip synched by the captured cast at the dining room table in Timothy Burton's movie Beetlejuice sung by Harry Belafonte.