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Posts Tagged ‘Pocketful of Miracles’

Bramblies

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Dear Millicent,
I would like to offer you thoughtful thoughts on everything, but I’m very warm, and trying to quell general angst, anxiety, and the desire to nap. I wonder with David Foster Wallace (who I sometimes want to call Wallace, and then just go ahead and type it all out), if we have [...]

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Nitpick: The Miracle is That He’s Kissing the Old Apple

Posted in Movies, Nitpicks, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

First, a fun fact about Glenn Ford, the original Dude, courtesy of the New York Times:

By 1965, his star power [no pun intended] had enabled him to build a luxurious home home in Beverly Hills featuring an atrium over which hung a 900-pound artificial sun. Mr. Ford could switch it on whenever he wanted [...]

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Pocketful of Miracles: Instant Replay of Two Scenes

Posted in Movies, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Just to start us off, two scenes that seemed especially noteworthy:
Winning the Prize for Weirdest Exchange:
Joy Boy: “Why should Steve Darcey give the New York territory to Dave the Dude?”
Darcey: “You his mouthpiece?’
Joy Boy: “Call me his doormat.”
…
The Dude: “All my friends are nine feet tall and all my friends make very bad doormats.”
Darcey [...]

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