My only quibble: rather than the trailer from Dog Day Afternoon, I would have shown this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-3wza6rnck. The all-time best NY-in-blazing-summer sequence.
It's steaming hot here in southern New England, too. I spent the morning painting the house, but it's just too damn hot so I'm back inside listening to sports talk radio. Check this out:
tinyurl.com/55o772
(The Boston Herald reporting what was said by the guest host I'm now listening to.) Upshot: when Manny watched three Rivera strikes a couple of weeks ago, he was 'sending a message' to Red Sox management. Interesting.
How friggin' awesome was Pacino in the first half of the '70s? The two Godfather flicks, Serpico and A Dog Day Afternoon. I know I'll sound like the Sports Guy, but that peak is as good as Sandy Koufax' peak years or Pedro's peak years. I'm not sure any other actor had that many great movies in one lifetime let alone five short years.
I was 15, growing up in Brooklyn when Do The Right Thing came out. It dropped like a grenade, people were in shock coming out the cinema. What ever happened to Skype?
And DDA, one of the great opening sequences ever, that's always how I remember New York.
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My only quibble: rather than the trailer from Dog Day Afternoon, I would have shown this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-3wza6rnck. The all-time best NY-in-blazing-summer sequence.
tinyurl.com/55o772
(The Boston Herald reporting what was said by the guest host I'm now listening to.) Upshot: when Manny watched three Rivera strikes a couple of weeks ago, he was 'sending a message' to Red Sox management. Interesting.
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
The Conversation
Dog Day Afternoon
The Deer Hunter
Especially if you can pick out Bobby Richardson or Tom Tresh by their profile.
And DDA, one of the great opening sequences ever, that's always how I remember New York.
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