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I can understand that. Dolly Parton is a god damn national treasure. Read into her history with Porter Wagnor. It's beautiful and tragic and I'm surpised hasn't been turned into a musical or play or movie yet.

Growing up, I ONLY knew Louis Gosset Jr from Iron Eagle Also I swear I'm not trying to cheat my way to 200 posts here...but yet that's not stopping me from responding individually

Anise is such a weird flavor. I hate it in licorce, but like I like ouzo and sambuca and there is this cookie my dad and i make called peppernuts, which uses anise, that i could eat every day for the rest of my life.

First of all Susan Sarandon hasn't aged a day Second of all, Charles Durning hasn't aged a day third that "drag race" joke...ugh... yeah he's great in that scene and that is the role I'd want for sure. It's the Judi Dench in Shakespeare In Love thing...great actor, great role, do you reward them for little screen time?

Blasphemy. I like Whitney's version, but she doesn't hold a candle to Dolly. Whitney wouldn't even know about the song if Costner (if I recall correctly) didn't suggest it. Durning for a supporting actor nod for this? It was ONE scene. Now granted his Sidestep song is pretty great and if I was auditioning that would be the part I'd want, but still...

One of the DJs I work with still just goes on and on about this wedding he DJ'd the reception for and a local radio personality was there. I'm like "dude no one outside of the listening area cares and of the listening area, probably only 25% care". It is a bit weird, the "local celebrity" culture.

I always assumed that the girls knew that their job at the Chicken Ranch had a limited shelf life and Miss Mona wasn't grooming any of them to take over anytime soon, so while it's bad, I would guess it's something that they all knew would come eventually.

I think it has better comedic timing, stronger leads against Dolly (as much as I love Burt, he can't beat Lily and Jane), and a better antagonist (Dabney Colemen vs Dom Deluise). The supporting cast in 9to5 is better and more memorable with better defined characters then Whorehouse. What can you tell me about the girl's in in Dolly's house? What do we know about Jewel/Porky? I think the 9 to 5 musical is better then TBLWHIT musical (to be fair, 9to5 musical came out much latter whereas the movie is based on the musical. Whorehouse musical also came from a transition time in Broadway), and I think the song "9 to 5" is better and more closely associated with Dolly then "I Will Always Love You", which rightly or wrongly, is more associated with Whitney. In Whorehouse's favor though is, Dolly gets to sing more (always a plus), Charles Duning (and what was he doing getting 4th billed for one scene) is better then Sterling Hayden (although their roles aren't exactly analogous, they are both represent an authority figure who can change the course of the film and appear in one scene), and Whorehouse is a lot more diverse then 9to5. Now, that all said, I think Whorehouse has a more...timely message. You could make this movie today with one minor change (you know they would change Dom Deluise to a televangelist rather then a watch dog consumer advocate---which...why does a watch dog advocate CARE about a whore house in a small town in Texas? Publicity maybe? I can't see it falling in his realm unless the sex workers aren't...as advertised? But the small town politics vs the "big city" politics resonates more, even stronger I think, today then it did in the early 80s. Growing up in a small town in Kansas (5,000) and living in a slightly bigger town (20,000) but both being the "biggest" city in their area, I could honestly see this playing out, just because I hear and have heard about the complaining every time the state or national legislature votes for something that affects us out here. Small towns in the South/midwest, really just want to be left alone.

Like I said, I watched this a couple of weeks (maybe a month or so back) for The Canon and loved it then (although I wasn't surprised or disappointed that 9 to 5 "won" in that match up. It is the superior film). Revisiting it for this, without a critical eye, just for enjoyment, and to talk about it with ya'll, it was just a delight. It's a weird mixture of 3 different types of movies, the old fashioned musical (which was on it's way out), the "country" movie (exemplified by movies like Smokey & The Bandit, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, Cannonball Run, etc), and the sex comedy. It SHOULDN'T work, and yet, it does. I honestly had forgotten that Hard Candy Christmas comes from this movie, which does take place at the holidays (the rare Thanksgiving movie!). Last year I was part of this mess of a community theater show. It was like a Christmas revue/worst holiday Special ever called A Christmas Spectacular (It was also of questionable legality with some of what they were doing). This older gentlemen and I go out for coffee at least once a week and we refer to it as "A Christmas Disaster". So anyways, Hard Candy Christmas was performed in that show as almost an upbeat like thing, and yet this movie shows the meaning is much more somber then you would think a "Christmas" song should be. I'm really curious what Kris Kristofferson would have brought to the role. He would have had more songs that's for sure.

It mostly has to do with being broke...and unemployed (well semi-unemployed. I'm still DJing part-time, and writing. It's just the job that paid the bills ended for the season).

I missed Across the Universe the first time so...

Probably Joyful Noise (despite never having seen it either) because I grew up in a religious household

Skipping IT to watch this tonight...

1) No. 2) Yes.

Because All summer Long pairs well with (beat wise) to Georgia Satellite's Keep Your Hands To Yourself and obviously samples Skynard's Sweet Home Alabama. I groan every time I get a request of Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)

I can't recall a weird "first dance" (most are pretty standard) but the weirdest father/daughter dance was Kenny Loggins' Return To Pooh Corner. (that dance all together was memorable. Wedding and reception were held in a country club. Bride and groom were both like 18 or 19. Groom just graduated from Basic Training, bride just finished the first semester of college. So they were the youngest couple I've ever DJ'd for. It was on a Sunday afternoon too. So all that to account for there was very little drinking and drinking usually indicates more dancing. Then, with about two hours left in the reception, a grandparent, who wasn't at the ceremony and reception, had a stroke and the nursing home called. So we ended early.)

I was part of a "movie club" years ago where we picked a theme and then everyone had to pick a movie in that theme. There was 5 of us, so every month r so we had a new theme. I don't remember what the theme was, but someone picked Paint Your Wagon and it was literal torture to get t hrough. LIke it's only marginally better then Bratz...

I just watched this because Amy Nichols pitted it against 9 to 5 on The Canon. I am so down with rewatching it.

Weird in that songs I haven't thought about in forever or you would normally think are annoying, people love. Like 3 hours into an open bar, people are totally down to do the Macarana, or The Chicken Dance. But if you try and mix it up with something "different" (like I have a techno/EDM version of the chicken dance that I've tried to mix into the original) they don't go for. You also play almost the same songs every week, week after week (Cha Cha Slide Part 2, Footloose, Ice Ice Baby, Baby Got Back, Crank That, Get Low), but then every dance is also different because this bride hates Lady Gaga but that one hates Taylor Swift. So I play a lot of the same songs, but I have to tailor it to their specific needs. There is also so much down time. I'll roll into a wedding reception 2 hours before it starts to set up. Then I've got nothing to do for an hour, 5 minutes to introduce the wedding party and dinner, then nothing for an hour and half for dinner/cake/toasts, then you have 3 hours of djing. It's also like, people for the most part don't want to hear new songs (with some exceptions. When Uptown Funk was released I knew it would be one I'd play for years, but 24k Magic, not so much.) People seemingly want to dance to music that they know and spark some sort of nostalgia. It's a trick of knowing what to play and what not to. I think there is a reason why in movies (and TV shows), you more often see a band at a wedding and a DJ at a school. There is something inherent about seeing a band do covers vs a DJ doing something new or unique like mixing.

I can't comment on weather or not a person who is deaf would be a good DJ, I'll just say that, as a wedding DJ, we don't do a lot of beat matching and scratching. But people do want music that they know. It's a weird but fun industry.

This was a great film and just what I needed to jump back in after being gone for several weeks. thanks Taylor!

I can buy that theory

But hasn't A Star Is Born been done like a hundred times (3 I think but still) Of course, this is a remake of an older version of the book so what the hell do I know.

Foie Gras aux truffles or iced table celery... Americans are the worst (I'm blaming ugly Americans for this)

That was my thought too. Most of the modern comic teams go more broad then we saw in this (and also tend to go more blue--not a criticism just an observation).