The Best Movies: What the Academy SHOULD have been Awarding

[Mears]

I am very lucky-——I have three within 1/2 hour of my home-——and they all do VERY well.

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[Persevero]

I must be an empathetic! I can’t watch movies with drowning in them.

[Persevero]

Would love for you to expand on your experiences!

[DoodleDawg]

I am very lucky-——I have three within 1/2 hour of my home-——and they all do VERY well.

I envy you. So other than "Maudie" what hidden gems did you come across last year?

[moehoward]

Growing up in KC we had a few smaller theaters. The Waldo was a few blocks from our house and was basically day-care for me and my brother. There was one in Westport, a small two screen theatre at Country Club Plaza -saw Harold and Maude there. The Brookside -in Brookside. Then another that showed ‘art’ movies. Never got to go there.

[Avalon Memories]

Expand how? Let's see...Cary Grant and John Forsythe were both involved with Hollywood Park management during the Marge Everett era. I have always loved Thoroughbred horses and have been peripherally involved in the sport most of my life. I met those two gentlemen (and they were gentlemen) while attending private handicapping sessions at the track. Even the aging Grant was a very handsome, charming man. And John Forsythe could not have been nicer.

I met Charlton Heston at a private Republican fundraiser. He also was aging at the time and was somewhat bent over due to an old back injury. But he was just wonderful. I miss him and miss his star power in Republican politics.

I've met lots of famous people in the Thoroughbred racing industry, and in politics. For example, I met Darrell Issa at a reception during a CA Republican convention. It was when he first ran for congress. Talked to him for quite awhile about his positions on various issues.

I met Diane Watson and Maxine Waters when Gil Garcetti was sworn in for the first time as LA County DA. Waters is even dumber and nastier in person if you can believe that. And Watson helped stoke the Rodney King riot, then leveraged that to win a Congressional seat. Miserable people,those two.

[tired&retired]

“I must be an empathetic!”

My wife tells me that I am just pathetic!!!

[minnesota_bound]

TCM has the movies I like. Real good writing and acting.
No rapid camera movements and the music is good.

[luckystarmom]

Ron Howard filmed a movie at my high school, Cotton Candy.

I don’t like his politics, but he seemed like a nice family guy. I ate lunch with his mom, and she was very nice.

The only actor I did not like was Charlie Martin Smith from American Graffiti. He was very full of himself. The other actors were fun. They would go hangout in the band room and sing. We’d go join them.

Of couse that was back in the 70s. So much has changed since then.