Short film starring Kurt Russell, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning

Cutlass (2007) is a 16 minute short written and directed by Kate Hudson. It stars Virginia Madsen, Kurt Russell, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Chevy Chase.
Plot: When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car, an Olds Cutlass Supreme.

Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn

From George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Isn't this a great shot.

trailer
photo from Dr. Marco

Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland

A still from Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Cary Grant, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre

From Frank Capra's excellent Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

the trailer
Image from Dr. Marco

Twilight - a young 100 year old dates a 17 year old

I watched the movie Twilight on Showtime last night. But this is not my lame review of the flick (however, I did enjoy it, more or less). My question is about Bella (Kristin Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). In the movie (and the book) she is supposed to be 17 and Edward is supposed to have the body of a 17 year old but in fact be about 100 years old. Now if a 17 year old girl were to date say a 40 year old man, never mind a centigenarian, people would go crazy. He'd be strung up by his soft parts. So what's up with Edward the vampire? Is it that if an older man could walk into a Youthinator machine, like a star-belly Sneetch, and come out the other end young, if that were possible, then society would be all right with the whole thing? Is society saying it's all only skin deep? I didn't think so. I thought it was creepy and abusive and generally considered a moral outrage. So why no eyebrows raised over Edward the vampire and his worldly wise 100 year old mind and soul? And, as if that weren't enough, how is it that he acts 17ish? He's 100 years old for the love of monkeys! In all the vampire movies and shows I've seen the vampire dude who's been around forever is always very sophisticated. This Edward guy must be stuck in some kind of Groundhog Day thing but in reverse. He remembers everything, all 100 years, but his mind never matures. Is that what they're trying to sell us? I know some 40 year olds who act like they're 20. Does that mean if they only looked 17 all would be forgiven? Oh I'm so disappointed - the hypocrisy, the deceit, the shallowness, the general lack of moral policing. What's this world coming to?

Love Songs

The song "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" is a great love song I think. Adrian Grenier performed the song in a recent episode of Entourage. And it's no doubt been performed many times on TV and in movies. For example Heath Ledger sang it to Julia Styles in the movie "10 Things I Hate About You".

Just for yucks I put together a list (playlist) of love songs. I searched the internet a bit first to get a feel for what other people like and what surprised me is how little consensus there is on love songs. Almost everybody has a different favorite love song so I suppose the list I came up with would just be a sampling.
For the most part I prefer love songs with lots of emotion or passion and I don't care if they're sappy. As an example of my perspective I would use the scene from the movie Dan in Real Life where Dan's middle daughter's boyfriend drives off and the girl goes nuts, she totally goes to pieces. I got a kick out that scene. She's so over the top. But that's how it feels if you really let yourself go and you're a passionate person. That's how an emotional teenager would act it seems to me. Before we become "grown-up" and learn to be in control.

The tail end of this clip shows part of the scene I'm talking about.


Here's my list:

Clips from The Wizard of Oz