TCM Oscar Party

This past weekend I held my second annual TCM Oscar party! Thanks to the lovely folks at YouCast, I received another party package to help me celebrate. 

This year we watched one of my all-time favorites, Bringing Up Baby (1938). If you haven't seen this gem of a movie, then you haven't seen Katharine Hepburn or Cary Grant at what I consider their very best together. With the usual Howard Hawks fast-paced dialogue and witty zingers, you're not sitting down to a relaxing movie but instead, a whirlwind of accidental adventure and high comedy. Never a dull moment, Hepburn wins her man with the help of a leopard named Baby.
Though it won no Oscars, Bringing Up Baby is an awesome film and I totally recommend it to all. 

I got this lovely little gem as a birthday gift!

TCM Oscar Party Pack!

I have received my TCM Oscar Party Pack thanks to the thoughtfulness of Deana from YouCast! I was so excited that I decided on the spot to throw a viewing party with a bit of a twist. I'm going to invite my friends over for martinis and a movie that a Beyond the Valley of the Dolls screening. For anyone who has had the misfortune of not seeing this film, I would suggest you rent it or better yet, buy it tout suite. Some of you may be wondering why you haven't seen Beyond the Valley of the Dolls amongst the Academy Awards lists for best movie or indeed any category. That's because Russ Meyer was robbed and Marcia McBroom's talent was totally overlooked! I mean, anyone who can make or act in a movie that was so horribly, terribly, wonderfully awful (I mean we're talking pausing and rewinding at several junctures in the film to recapture the hilarity and chaos that ensues) deserves an award and why not a highly regarded one? So, there's the twist. An Oscar party featuring a non-Oscar nominated film. I can't wait! Where are my go-go boots and Strawberry Alarm Clock albums?



Side note:

Ironically, this was one of only a few (I wonder why?) screen plays the legendary film critic Roger Ebert wrote.