{"id":11807,"date":"2014-11-30T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2014-11-30T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:19:35","slug":"my-current-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/11\/30\/my-current-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"My current obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it? With one thing or another (most importantly, of course, I&#8217;ve become the godmother of my adorable little nephew Elias) this year has flown by &#8211; and today Christmas season has officially started, wow! <\/p>\n<p>Somehow fitting the season, these last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve gone on a Classic Hollywood kick, mainlining black-and-white movies, mostly screwball and romantic comedies and  Astaire-Rogers musicals. I&#8217;ve also devoured the delightful &#8220;Scandals of Classic Hollywood&#8221; by Anne Helen Petersen, both the original <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/tag\/scandals-of-classic-hollywood\/\" target=\"new\">blog series<\/A> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20821197-scandals-of-classic-hollywood\" target=\"new\">book<\/a>, and have lined up some biographies to read next. It&#8217;s just such a fascinating era, and a lot of the movies are simply first class!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long-time favourites:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Philadelphia Story<\/em> with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant &#038; James Stewart<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VkN6ebQahQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-VkN6ebQahQ\" target=\"new\">Ain&#8217;t No Other Man<\/a> by Sof &#8211; set to Christina Aguilera, this is a brilliant tribute to what is one of my all-time favourite movies! (I cringe at the dressing down from her dad, but other than that, Tracy Lord RULES &#038; both C.K. Dexter Haven and Macauly Connor know it. *g*)<\/p>\n<p><em>Swing Time<\/em> with Fred Astaire &#038; Ginger Rogers<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8313395\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/icepixie.livejournal.com\/654652.html\" target=\"new\">A Love That Won&#8217;t Sit Still<\/a> by icepixie &#8211; a general tribute to those two and the way they light up the screen. I&#8217;ll pretty much watch them in anything &#8211; seriously, even &#8220;weaker&#8221; movies like <em>Follow the Fleet<\/em> and <em>Shall We Dance<\/em> make me happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New discoveries:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Holiday<\/em> with Katherine Hepburn &#038; Cary Grant<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8SjO5XsBej4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8SjO5XsBej4\" target=\"New\">You Belong With Me<\/a>, by Hepburned &#8211; another great use of a modern song. From reviews I expected to prefer the other Grant\/Hepburn collaboration, <em>Bringing Up Baby<\/em>, but that was just too frantic &#038; over-the-top for my taste, and I enjoyed this movie much more &#8211; again, Hepburn plays a delightful character &#038; Grant is pitch-perfect.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Awful Truth<\/em> with Cary Grant &#038; Irene Dunn<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9QJyVBhSAo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWorth seeing for the end scene (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9QJyVBhSAo\" target=\"new\">here<\/a> set to music by Edward Boensnes) alone. I preferred it to both <em>My Favorite Wife<\/em> (another Grant\/Dunn collaboration), which drew out the jokes much too long imho, and to <em>His Girl Friday<\/em> (Grant with Rosalind Russell). The latter was pretty great, though, especially the first scene is brilliant &#8211; I just never quite bought that Russell should get back together with Grant&#8217;s character, since all he does is cheat and scheme to get her back, not addressing at all why their marriage fell apart the first time.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve only just started, there&#8217;s so many more to discover! After all, I&#8217;ve stuck to Astaire\/Rogers and Cary Grant movies so far&#8230; Next up: <em>It Happened One Night<\/em> with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, I think. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it? With one thing or another (most importantly, of course, I&#8217;ve become the godmother of my adorable little nephew Elias) this year has flown by &#8211; and today Christmas season has officially started, wow! 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