STARTING OVER!
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We begin 2007's "Friday Movie Suggestion Night" with an oldie but goodie: STARTING OVER! Directed by the late Alan J. Pakula, the Casting finds Burt Reynolds taking on the role of a Romantic Comedy in a year (1979) when he was the Number One box office draw. This was a very different role for Reynolds who plays "Phil Potter", a magazine writer whose kooky wife, "Jessica" (Candace Bergen) sleeps with Potter's boss, breaks up their marriage and ditches him for a singing career. This is a hilarious movie about dating in the 1970's. Charles Durning plays "Mickey", Potter's psychiatrist brother. There are two scenes that were actually taken from Reynold's real-life: a panic attack he suffered in Bloomingdales where shoppers offer Valium to a stricken Reynolds and a bitter pay phone call "Potter" receives from "Jessica" that mirrored the end of Reynold's own marriage to actress Judy Carnes. A new love interest materializes in a very skeptical schoolteacher, played by Jill Clayburgh. For anyone who has ever suffered a break-up with either a dating relationship or a marriage, the "Men's Group" therapy session that takes place in a church basement around the Christmas Season is a "must see" (after the "Woman's Group" begins banging on the door)! This was a good choice for the New Year, (and the resurrection of my Website which is still receiving TLC for the next few weeks of changes) as the movie deals with new and unexpected beginnings. Nominated at the 1980 Oscars for "Best Actress in a Leading Role": Jill Clayburgh and "Best Actress in a Supporting Role": Candace Bergen. This is a good "curl up on the sofa flick". Break out the popcorn and ...
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ENJOY!
posted by Michael Manning @ 1:57 AM
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I've been away, but I just wanted to pop in and say Happy 2007, Michael!
I have a feeling this is going to be a good year.
Happy New Year to you! Thanks for the good movie tip. I love movies but don't know much about the "oldies" and this one sounds like a winner.
Welcome back to the Blogosphere.
Glad to see you back!!! :) About to send out Search and Rescue!
D-Man: I feel the same way! lol to D-Girl too in 2007!!
PBS: lol! I have quite a cool mix that I have planned for this year. Hopefully something fun for everybody's tatstes!
GW: Thanks. It only took us until 2 A.M. Thank God Jason, my Webmaster is on West Coast Time! Thanks also for autographing your great book. ALL: Order it now to start laughing sooner-than-later. It's a jewel!!! :--)
Seamus: It's good to be back! I stil don't get the beta thing on Blogger. But maybe someone smarter can educate me with an e-mail!
I'm being resistant to beta, so I'm no help there! LOL
have a great year, Michael!
xxx
Michael, welcome back to Blog-world! You were missed!
Sounds like a fun Friday Night Movie suggestion.
Hope you and yours are well, and had (and continue to have) a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Snow Bunny Ally
Wow! You're back! I thought you had been kidnapped and were being held hostage.
Back to your series on Pan Am - I never realized what a pioneering company they were and what obstacles they had to overcome and how finally closing their doors affected the airline industry. I have to admit when I read about the last flight and the fly by over the airport, I actually cried.
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through my high school yearbook and lo and behold there was a full-page ad from Pan American Airlines in the back of the book.
How's the job search/relocation going?
Happy 2007.
Seamus: Well, I feel stuck with it. I prefer the Older version.
Karma: lol! I'll get around hopefully this weekend to visiting everyone as promised. It's been a hectic week! My Very Best to You in 2007 also!!!
Snow Bunny Ally: I saw you over at Sahara's. lol to you also! See you soon!!
Knitti-Me: There's a story or two behind Pan Am (of course many). For me, before I lost one of my two best buddies to Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (see Archived: "A Character Named Andre'") he watched it the video, "Death of an American Dream" with his wife and told me later that he too was choking back tears during that fly over and landing. That film won the Best Documentary of 1992 at the Miami Film Festival.
The other story concerns the late President Gerald R. Ford.
As my friend Al Topping was organizing the "Last Flight Out" (See Al Topping Interview in my Archives; "THE INTERVIEW") of Vietnam as Station Manager, the FAA placed a ban on all commercial flights in and out of Saigon. President Ford had been in touch with Pan Am and learned about Al's work to evacuate Pan Am personnel and so he issued an Executive Order for a "Charter" flight to break through the "red tape". That flight was flown entirely by volunteers: the pilots and flight attendants all flew literally into a firestorm--quite dangerous, and THAT was the subject of the NBC film "Last Flight Out" where Actor James Earl Jones portrayed Al. Alan saved 426 lives. Long reply, but Pan Am was really a Class Act.
Lastly, when TIME magazine did their "Top 100 Titans of All Time" issue, Sir Richard Branson stepped forward to write eloquently about Juan Trippe and Pan Am. I look forward to stopping by for a visit, Knitti Me: HAPPY NEW YEAR and lol!!!
Seamus: Well, I feel stuck with it. I prefer the Older version.
Karma: lol! I'll get around hopefully this weekend to visiting everyone as promised. It's been a hectic week! My Very Best to You in 2007 also!!!
Snow Bunny Ally: I saw you over at Sahara's. lol to you also! See you soon!!
Knitti-Me: There's a story or two behind Pan Am (of course many). For me, before I lost one of my two best buddies to Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (see Archived: "A Character Named Andre'") he watched it the video, "Death of an American Dream" with his wife and told me later that he too was choking back tears during that fly over and landing. That film won the Best Documentary of 1992 at the Miami Film Festival.
The other story concerns the late President Gerald R. Ford.
As my friend Al Topping was organizing the "Last Flight Out" (See Al Topping Interview in my Archives; "THE INTERVIEW") of Vietnam as Station Manager, the FAA placed a ban on all commercial flights in and out of Saigon. President Ford had been in touch with Pan Am and learned about Al's work to evacuate Pan Am personnel and so he issued an Executive Order for a "Charter" flight to break through the "red tape". That flight was flown entirely by volunteers: the pilots and flight attendants all flew literally into a firestorm--quite dangerous, and THAT was the subject of the NBC film "Last Flight Out" where Actor James Earl Jones portrayed Al. Alan saved 426 lives. Long reply, but Pan Am was really a Class Act.
Lastly, when TIME magazine did their "Top 100 Titans of All Time" issue, Sir Richard Branson stepped forward to write eloquently about Juan Trippe and Pan Am. I look forward to stopping by for a visit, Knitti Me: HAPPY NEW YEAR and lol!!!
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